Why Steam Deck Is One of the Most Significant PC Gaming Moments in Years

Re:Why Steam Deck Is One of the Most Significant PC Gaming M... by Melatonic on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @01:04PM (#34712070)

Got it. But the hardware is still tablet hardware so its perfectly hackable into Android mode. Not the same as the Steam Deck at all but I think my point still sort of works

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Re:Why Steam Deck Is One of the Most Significant PC Gaming M... by ranger207 on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @01:28PM (#34712461)

AIUI only old hardware where Nintendo forgot to burn some bootloader fuses are hackable. Newer ones are not

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Re:Why Steam Deck Is One of the Most Significant PC Gaming M... by piperswe on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @01:37PM (#34712602)

Those are the only ones that are softmoddable, but there are modchips for newer ones.

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Re:Why Steam Deck Is One of the Most Significant PC Gaming M... by monocasa on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @02:27PM (#34713468)

Following that, just about every game console of the past 25 years has been able to be hardware modded to run Linux. The switch isn't special here.

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Re:Why Steam Deck Is One of the Most Significant PC Gaming M... by jerf on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @03:32PM (#34714567)

Yes. Nintendo intended it to be 100% fully locked down. They made a trivial mistake in the early versions, since corrected. But they absolutely do not intend for you to run anything other than their exact stuff on it. It could not hardly be more closed down and proprietary.

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