Steam Deck

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A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.

Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.

As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title

The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.

Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.

These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.

Rules:

Follow the rules of Sopuli
Posts must be related to the Steam Deck in an obvious way.
No piracy, there are other communities for that.
Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
Have fun.

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Steam Families is here (store.steampowered.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Like I can take the .exe and install it on any other computer own them?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

No, many steam games use steam to verify if you own the game. It's up to developers if they require their game to have steam drm or not.

If the game doesn't have Steam DRM, you can just copy the game folder and run it anywhere. But many games will require steam (with an account that owns the game) to be running before they'll open.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

See, that's what I thought, because I have tried to put a game once on another PC and it didn't work. So, it makes sense now, it depends on the devs. This is why I like gog. You just have the .exe and you can install it anywhere you want

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yup. They're just files. You'll want to move the entire game folder for steam, the install file doesn't come with the games.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I see, it makes sense as the game would have a bunch of dependencies that are all over that folder. Thank you, I didn't know that.