madame_gaymes
Unborn again technologist
Game and Tool developer working with Godot and NixOS.
Vermin Supreme has your back
(live performance quality is a huge reason why they’re in my tops)
Zero consideration for anything but promoting their “clever name and aesthetic.” Feels like this is close to what a legal document from Idiocracy would look like, might be an unfortunate step in that direction.
If anything, this article is a warning to never contact Dragon Lawyers. If they can’t see how a full color watermark causes issues on a legal document that might be copied or faxed, well I don’t trust them to see the details they need to see in my case.
Admittedly, I don’t use game mode as often as most. I do gamedev on this, so it’s almost always in Desktop mode, even when I’m actually playing games.
Having said that, the handful of times I have used it on Cachy felt no different at all to SteamOS. The UI is identical. They did a great job recreating the Valve-specific parts of SteamOS that aren’t just part of KDE or Arch.
The only downside, and it’s just a minor inconvenience for me, is that Cachy doesn’t have the option to boot into Desktop mode by default (yet). It always boots up into game mode first.
EDIT: I was wrong, the game mode on CachyOS is actually one in the same as SteamOS game mode. That is something built into a special release of the Steam client for Steam Decks, and Cachy just uses that instead of reinventing the wheel. It should be a direct 1:1 experience when it comes to game mode.
Indeed, I got myself a mid-grade Netgear USB antenna. It works much better than on-board, but like you said it’s an extra thing with a wire. Doesn’t help with BT, but at least my mouse has an RF dongle for that.
It’s just a bit of a bummer that the price is what it is and the BT/WiFi is one of the cheap components.
I got a client to buy me a System76 (Pangolin), never would have bought one otherwise. Everything is great about it, very powerful and as expected, except for the BT/WiFi module. It’s kinda dogshit.
Besides that, IO is plentiful, it’s a good size/weight, user upgradable/serviceable, has a hardware camera killswitch, and a built-in RJ45 to fix the WiFi issue. When I got mine, they were doing a special, and I also got a neat backpack with it for free!
