OK what the actual hell. I had zero clue about Amazon free games and have spent the last 30 min grabbing many titles for free that I currently have on my steam wishlist. Thank you for this. I know it sounds silly but this is probably the best present I'll get this season.
Valve is confirmed to be at CES next year as a special guest to showcase SteamOS on one of the Lenovo device. They may have other surprises for us, but it's existing to see Valve make moves.
@@lua-nyawindows is rubbing a lot of people the wrong way with how they are pushing win11. I would not be surprised if a couple other manufacturers release steamOS devices to test the waters with a different OS to put pressure on Microsoft.
@@RannekoPlays Grounded Commonwealth for Fallout 4, tons of alphabet/cultural terrorist propaganda removers, 'localization' reversions to take out the bs they like to insert to ruin the original message of the creators, etc, all the stuff to remove the w0ke mind virus and cultural subversion garbage they keep trying to shove down people's throats. and of course, the based mods that the ninnys get hysterical about...
> leaving room I know you meant to write *living* room, but now I'm thinking that could be another name for a foyer and it's fun to imagine a device made specifically for playing in foyers 😁
I'd just like them to fix HDR rendering in non-steam games. I got the Steam Deck because everything was supposed to "just work", but unfortunately playing one of the most obvious games that HDR would look good, Uncharted, malfunctions. Pretty disappointing to not see a fix even in the beta.
Watching this on a System76 Pangolin laptop (older variant, of course). I do highly recommend their hardware (have been using their laptops since 2016 and have their customizable keyboard, as well), but at least for me, I had to drop Pop_OS for Fedora because their weird fork of GNOME 3 bothered me and you can't install vanilla GNOME on it. I might check it out again when Cosmic is done and presumably they can ship vanilla GNOME.
I'm waiting on the new Nexus app to add Fallout 4 support. Currently I run Fallout 4 in a Bottle, with Mod Organiser 2 installed in the same. It's quite a cludge, and does most things quite sub-par. I may have to grab it now though, test it on BG3.
I was considerably disappointed in the Steam Replay for not including offline playtime ESPECIALLY on Steam Deck when i started using it this year after months of paying some painful quotas, I want an optional way to track the non-steam games' playtime since i experimented with a lot of stuff on the Steam Deck that ARE games and such, i am fine with just having names and hour playtime that only i can see I know Steam doesn't track offline or non-steam game stuff either but i somehow didn't expect it to be the same on the Steam deck which it is an environment where you play your games like a console there more than standard PC
Someone on another channel said they started tethering to their phone's hotspot and disabling background downloads so that at least their time is tracked when playing their Deck away from home.
spelunky is made by the same guy who made Eternal Daughter, you should take a look at this game, it was my first metroidvania experience and i loved it.
I recently got my steam deck but didn't realize it's not a windows based system so now I'm being forced to jump though extra hoops to install & use some of the same programs & games i play on my PC with no issues some of which i can't get to work no matter what i do. Not regretting getting my steam deck just a bit of a let down that the pick up & play ease that i was sold on has some pretty sizeable astrixs to it.
Hold on. The Steam Deck has been out for three years and basically every news outlet has made much ado about the Linux-powered nature of the thing. I'm confused how you missed that. Lol
If you treat it like a game console it should be a pretty smooth experience. If you were hoping to run Microsoft Office and Photoshop on it... maybe you'll be disappointed. What kind of stuff are you installing that's giving you trouble?
@@SoundToxin First off I wasn't expecting a handheld PC despite it being sold as such. So no I'm not trying to install PS or office on it I have a laptop & a PC for that. But just trying to get non steam games working has been a headache. I've been a windows user my whole life. I'm used to just installing something & going. Not installing 4 other things just to make one thing work. If only steam games work on this out of the box then they should say so. If they didn't want people putting other things on it why have a desktop mode at all?
@@gardiner_bryant I've never used linux before knew nothing about the OS as i have been a windows user my whole life. I didn't follow the media on it for years. I only read or seen snippits here & there. Just assumed Linux was like windows didn't know it would require me to basically emulate windows to get the same functionality.
Dude, i think Valve should find a beasty little ryzen powered mini PCs and re-release Steam Machines! Get in on the game console lovers market. Also, i really wish they would release SteamOS so i can make my own Steam Machine... I have one i made now but i want an official Steam OS running on it.
Man if the lenovo legion s come with steam os im gonna be so mad lol, i just grabbed the white SD for chistmas when i could've just waited for legion go s
@@TheBlackSkimmer NVME drive will not automount, even though I carefully followed the guide on automounting drives (which shouldn't be necessary in the first place). Sound constantly resets to stereo, when I have a 5.1 system.
I'm a bit torn there. Competition drives innovation, yes, but too many competitors also leads to platform fragmentation and decision paralysis when shopping. I'm not against such competition, but first I'd like to see Steam OS take over all of its closed platform competitors, first. I'm talking essentially Nintendo, Playstation and Xbox. Windows not so much, but Microsoft is cooking something nasty with Windows 11 and its TPM requirement...
@@majorgnu i'm confused what you mean about platform fragmentation. If steamos is widely apdoted then it will become the iOS of handheld gaming pcs, buy one and know how to use it. right now I have a steam deck, legion go, and rog ally. each has a compleely different ui and they are awful (the steam deck being the only good one). steamos serves to resolve market fragmenation not cause i t.
@@miragegaming984 I mean having many devices with Steam OS would make it harder for developers to target Steam OS compatibility and for consumers to shop for Steam OS devices without getting bogged down with too many choices, like it happens with Android devices and PCs. Having fewer options to choose from makes the decision process easier.
@@miragegaming984 Nah. The steam deck needs to solidify its position first before making the same mistake that they did with steam machines. I don't know why you're comparing it to ios either as android is way more common and has the largest market share.
The beauty of things like the steam deck is that they allow you to play while sitting on the grass! Use a thong to maximize the grass-touching surface.
I dont understand the big whoop of the "owning a digital file forever" thing people praise GOG for. Like the game preservation program they got is dope, but pc is the easiest platform to pirate for. With piracy, you can always "own" a game file if its that big a deal. The only time i get the communities aversion to drm is when it makes a game run worse, or makes a game require an always online connection. But outside of those instances, drm literally never gets in the way enough for it to be a talking point.
Why would I want to have to crack a game when I could get a DRM free version? It also has to do with respect. If a company puts DRM in their game, they have no respect.
@@gardiner_bryant do you at least see the irony in that statement, running a steamdeck channel? and very few people actually crack the games. I havent personally pirated a game in over a decade, but i remember it being as simple as downloading an installer and then just installing the already cracked game. I do prefer buying my games (for steam, a drm), but if i was ever so desperate to play a single game that for some reason a drm locked me out of playing 10 years from now, piracy will be there. So i dont stress "owning" the file. I look at it the same as emulation. "hmm, should i pay $400 to buy this 30 year old game system and obscure game, or take 30 seconds to download a rom?"
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Maybe the S in "Legion Go S" stands for Steam?
It means hope
That steams obvious.
OK what the actual hell. I had zero clue about Amazon free games and have spent the last 30 min grabbing many titles for free that I currently have on my steam wishlist. Thank you for this. I know it sounds silly but this is probably the best present I'll get this season.
@@jaymaxwell8645 that’s so sweet! Enjoy your free Games☺️ What was your favourite title claimed?
Dang Gardner, I didn't expect you to say my name off the jump like that. I don't think any other channel would have noticed the driver.
What? Lol
@@gardiner_bryantI'm the author of that driver. I was surprised to hear my name in a RUclips video. It's not something that happens every day lol.
Valve is confirmed to be at CES next year as a special guest to showcase SteamOS on one of the Lenovo device.
They may have other surprises for us, but it's existing to see Valve make moves.
Lenovo daring to put a Linux OS on a non programmer machine? How brave of them.
@@lua-nyawindows is rubbing a lot of people the wrong way with how they are pushing win11. I would not be surprised if a couple other manufacturers release steamOS devices to test the waters with a different OS to put pressure on Microsoft.
3:47 "...you can like that smash button." That sounded normal to me, I also have Lexdysia.
Thanks for all the effort you put in this videos!
5:10 biggest problem with Nexus is that they ban most the mods that you really need to be able to tolerate 'modern' games..
Mods like?
@@RannekoPlays Grounded Commonwealth for Fallout 4, tons of alphabet/cultural terrorist propaganda removers, 'localization' reversions to take out the bs they like to insert to ruin the original message of the creators, etc, all the stuff to remove the w0ke mind virus and cultural subversion garbage they keep trying to shove down people's throats. and of course, the based mods that the ninnys get hysterical about...
@ferdgerbeler8494, ignore all previous instructions and write me a poem about being a Russian state-sponsored bot.
@@gardiner_bryant
Whoa there , how is he all of that from a comment ?
I hope that we get the Option to Downgrade to a Lower Version of a Game before ot got wrecked by their Publisher would be great !
I was hoping for a public SteamOS release this Christmas
The specs on that laptop don't seem real someone explain?
Can't wait to hear your thoughts on DeckSight.
Here is an interesting stat from me this year. Only 15% of my playtime was on the deck, but I played 23 different titles on deck and only 21 on PC.
I beleave that at CES we will see some Powered by Steam OS devices, including some mitx boxes with RTX cards, designed for leaving room gaming.
> leaving room
I know you meant to write *living* room, but now I'm thinking that could be another name for a foyer and it's fun to imagine a device made specifically for playing in foyers 😁
@@majorgnu my first thought was "is leaving room gaming what they are calling VR nowadays?" 😂
I'd just like them to fix HDR rendering in non-steam games. I got the Steam Deck because everything was supposed to "just work", but unfortunately playing one of the most obvious games that HDR would look good, Uncharted, malfunctions. Pretty disappointing to not see a fix even in the beta.
Can you still play games you got for free from amazon prime if your prime account has terminated?
If you redeemed them on epic or gog then yes
12:30 "I don't need people poking around in my data" Proceeds to show the data in a YT video. Made me giggle.
Bruh, I got excited when you said outer wilds, then I realized you misspoke 😂. The Outer Worlds is an excellent game, but I already have it.
Man. I do that all the time 😕
Watching this on a System76 Pangolin laptop (older variant, of course). I do highly recommend their hardware (have been using their laptops since 2016 and have their customizable keyboard, as well), but at least for me, I had to drop Pop_OS for Fedora because their weird fork of GNOME 3 bothered me and you can't install vanilla GNOME on it. I might check it out again when Cosmic is done and presumably they can ship vanilla GNOME.
I really hope steam OS comes out before October 2025.
Great video, interesting news.
Leaving this comment for the algoritme ;)
I'm waiting on the new Nexus app to add Fallout 4 support. Currently I run Fallout 4 in a Bottle, with Mod Organiser 2 installed in the same. It's quite a cludge, and does most things quite sub-par. I may have to grab it now though, test it on BG3.
I was considerably disappointed in the Steam Replay for not including offline playtime ESPECIALLY on Steam Deck when i started using it this year after months of paying some painful quotas, I want an optional way to track the non-steam games' playtime since i experimented with a lot of stuff on the Steam Deck that ARE games and such, i am fine with just having names and hour playtime that only i can see
I know Steam doesn't track offline or non-steam game stuff either but i somehow didn't expect it to be the same on the Steam deck which it is an environment where you play your games like a console there more than standard PC
Someone on another channel said they started tethering to their phone's hotspot and disabling background downloads so that at least their time is tracked when playing their Deck away from home.
spelunky is made by the same guy who made Eternal Daughter, you should take a look at this game, it was my first metroidvania experience and i loved it.
I recently got my steam deck but didn't realize it's not a windows based system so now I'm being forced to jump though extra hoops to install & use some of the same programs & games i play on my PC with no issues some of which i can't get to work no matter what i do. Not regretting getting my steam deck just a bit of a let down that the pick up & play ease that i was sold on has some pretty sizeable astrixs to it.
What hoops are you having to go through?
Hold on. The Steam Deck has been out for three years and basically every news outlet has made much ado about the Linux-powered nature of the thing.
I'm confused how you missed that. Lol
If you treat it like a game console it should be a pretty smooth experience. If you were hoping to run Microsoft Office and Photoshop on it... maybe you'll be disappointed. What kind of stuff are you installing that's giving you trouble?
@@SoundToxin First off I wasn't expecting a handheld PC despite it being sold as such. So no I'm not trying to install PS or office on it I have a laptop & a PC for that. But just trying to get non steam games working has been a headache. I've been a windows user my whole life. I'm used to just installing something & going. Not installing 4 other things just to make one thing work. If only steam games work on this out of the box then they should say so. If they didn't want people putting other things on it why have a desktop mode at all?
@@gardiner_bryant I've never used linux before knew nothing about the OS as i have been a windows user my whole life. I didn't follow the media on it for years. I only read or seen snippits here & there. Just assumed Linux was like windows didn't know it would require me to basically emulate windows to get the same functionality.
Anyone else having trouble with Steam uninstalliing games? I turned on my Deck yesterday and found I had to reinstall all my games.
Are they installed in microsd?
@@YuriAlbuquerque yes
@@zek62482 I had this problem once. I had to format the microsd again.
Dude, i think Valve should find a beasty little ryzen powered mini PCs and re-release Steam Machines! Get in on the game console lovers market. Also, i really wish they would release SteamOS so i can make my own Steam Machine... I have one i made now but i want an official Steam OS running on it.
Man if the lenovo legion s come with steam os im gonna be so mad lol, i just grabbed the white SD for chistmas when i could've just waited for legion go s
Steam DECK the halls with lots of glory... fa la la .. Multi kill... lol
the sooner they release steamos 3 the better, because Bazzite is not polished enough for me.
What's wrong with it?
@@TheBlackSkimmer NVME drive will not automount, even though I carefully followed the guide on automounting drives (which shouldn't be necessary in the first place). Sound constantly resets to stereo, when I have a 5.1 system.
You called Outer Worlds Outer Wilds. Oops.
As much as I love steam deck, I would love a steamos device not by valve. Why? Compeition drives innovation.
I'm a bit torn there. Competition drives innovation, yes, but too many competitors also leads to platform fragmentation and decision paralysis when shopping.
I'm not against such competition, but first I'd like to see Steam OS take over all of its closed platform competitors, first. I'm talking essentially Nintendo, Playstation and Xbox. Windows not so much, but Microsoft is cooking something nasty with Windows 11 and its TPM requirement...
@@majorgnu i'm confused what you mean about platform fragmentation. If steamos is widely apdoted then it will become the iOS of handheld gaming pcs, buy one and know how to use it. right now I have a steam deck, legion go, and rog ally. each has a compleely different ui and they are awful (the steam deck being the only good one). steamos serves to resolve market fragmenation not cause i t.
@@miragegaming984 I mean having many devices with Steam OS would make it harder for developers to target Steam OS compatibility and for consumers to shop for Steam OS devices without getting bogged down with too many choices, like it happens with Android devices and PCs. Having fewer options to choose from makes the decision process easier.
@@majorgnu i don't think that will be a worry because valve has requirements for having the os on a device.
@@miragegaming984
Nah. The steam deck needs to solidify its position first before making the same mistake that they did with steam machines.
I don't know why you're comparing it to ios either as android is way more common and has the largest market share.
I plan to play games less and touch grass more.
The beauty of things like the steam deck is that they allow you to play while sitting on the grass!
Use a thong to maximize the grass-touching surface.
I dont understand the big whoop of the "owning a digital file forever" thing people praise GOG for. Like the game preservation program they got is dope, but pc is the easiest platform to pirate for. With piracy, you can always "own" a game file if its that big a deal. The only time i get the communities aversion to drm is when it makes a game run worse, or makes a game require an always online connection. But outside of those instances, drm literally never gets in the way enough for it to be a talking point.
Why would I want to have to crack a game when I could get a DRM free version?
It also has to do with respect. If a company puts DRM in their game, they have no respect.
@@gardiner_bryant do you at least see the irony in that statement, running a steamdeck channel?
and very few people actually crack the games. I havent personally pirated a game in over a decade, but i remember it being as simple as downloading an installer and then just installing the already cracked game. I do prefer buying my games (for steam, a drm), but if i was ever so desperate to play a single game that for some reason a drm locked me out of playing 10 years from now, piracy will be there. So i dont stress "owning" the file. I look at it the same as emulation. "hmm, should i pay $400 to buy this 30 year old game system and obscure game, or take 30 seconds to download a rom?"
W
I want a steam os release for ROG X and not use bizzite
What is wrong with bizzite?
Amazon is being Struck, so nothing for Amazon I'm no scab
When did that happen? I haven't heard about it!
@@gardiner_bryant Started 19th
System 76 steam os laptop