12 mo. ago • 90%

First multiplayer impromptu SteamDeck session.

I'm at a friend's house for the night and was invited to an among us group. Installed among us and discord, had everything working (after a restart) within 10 minutes. I was shocked that simply adding a keybind for mute/deafen just worked. Yet another "it's just a computer" moment. I'll have to get that discord overlay thing working at some point.

In addition, the mic seems to work pretty well without using headphones, though I can't hear myself obviously.

I wasn't considering upgrading to the OLED because I didn't use the device enough, but man, I might...

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That coaster is giving me anxiety

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- I needed something with a lot of surface area so my drink didn't spill on my bed, and hey, it works.
  
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  Plus it's asset tagged so likely covered by a generous warranty or replaced by the business if it goes poorly enough.
  
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How did you get discord installed? Last time I tried, it was buggy and crashed. But that was over a year ago I think.

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- Should be able to just install the flatpak from the desktop mode app store and then add it as a game in your steam library.
  
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  Yeah, that's what I did. Seems to be working.
  
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- Flatpak is official from discord now. Should be in the KDE discovery store in desktop mode. It shouldn't crash but discord isn't supported very well on Linux.
  
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  It isn't supported very well but I use it on my Linux laptop often and it works well. The major issues are scaling support because it uses an old version of Electron and screen sharing probably also an issue with Wayland/Electron. But the Steam Deck doesn't use Wayland so it shouldn't be an issue
  
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Is there an Discord overlay for Steam Deck?

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- Yeah, I haven't used it, but I found a third party plugin thing. That's about all I know about it.
  
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I'll have to get that discord overlay thing working at some point.

Sadly the Discord overlay is only available on Windows and Android, not SteamOS/Linux or macOS.

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- There's a Seperate plugin thing I found specifically for SteamDeck. That's all I know about it.
  
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