I pretty much just use my switch for Nintendo exclusives at this point. For the games I do own on both I tend to prefer the Deck’s input options and flexibility in that regard more often than not.

For Skyrim I’ve had pretty good luck with just adding Vortex mod manager as a non steam game, running it with Proton and using mods that way

Personally I don’t think I’d use it on my main phone as of now. While it does work well and the granular options for sandboxing/security are awesome, I’d worry about compatibility with banking apps and other more locked down software that, from what I’ve heard, will refuse to run under GrapheneOS. Also, yeah you’d be missing out on some of the exclusive Pixel features that are part of Google’s stock ROM. But overall it works well and handles Play Store backend stuff pretty seamlessly while still keeping the security tight.

From what I understand camera quality and other features may be less performant than stock as well, though in the case of my Pixel 5a the camera experience wasn’t that great before anyways so it didn’t matter to me.

For now on my main phone I’m just gonna keep using stock and dipping into Android betas to mess with the new stuff coming to Pixel phones. Maybe once my desire to be part of that ecosystem is lessened I’d just go for Graphene on my Pixel 7.

Discord cant stream desktop audio at all on Linux aside from sharing a tab’s audio if you’re using Discord in a web browser. There are custom clients (like discord-screenaudio which OP mentioned) capable of doing this to some extent but they’re based on the web version of discord and lack features / can be buggy. Also these options don’t have hardware encoding so any fast moving content will become a choppy mess for the viewers.

The other alternative on Linux is to just route the app’s audio into your mic source. Others will hear it but it will come out as if its your mic so even those not watching the stream will have to hear the stream audio unless they mute you.

I’ve had a Pixel 5a and currently have a Pixel 7. Have enjoyed them greatly. The 5a was a bit mediocre overall, camera performance wasn’t that great & it got a bit slow over time. That being said, the clean OS experience and integration was always nice and it was perfectly suitable for my needs at a good price.

Now that I’m using my Pixel 7 as a daily, the Pixel 5a is holding up pretty well with GrapheneOS as a backup phone / media player.

Pixel 7 has been really nice to me. Interface is smooth, camera is nice, everything just works essentially. And getting the latest Android pretty quickly is a nice feeling. My only gripe is that Google’s SoC is still a bit lacking and battery life isn’t the best, but I hear the current Android beta has some promising battery life improvements.

Overall I’ve been having a good time with them. Still kinda miss my Nexus 5x tho, that thing was sweet…

But the article is talking about unsupported Chromebooks being sold through Amazon and Walmart. Google isn’t selling the unsupported Chromebooks on their own web store.

I remember having a lot of fun with Lovers in a Dangerous Space Time a few years ago.

You have up to 4 players (iirc) manage a spaceship which is essentially a platforming area. It gets pretty hectic (in a fun way imo) managing the different equipment on the ship and piloting it around while dealing with obstacles and enemies.

Even when you’re not intentionally plagiarizing, Turnitin may catch something that could screw you over when the assignment is submitted. Sometimes you have a chance to see what Turnitin analyzes and resubmit the assignment but OP is saying they can only submit it once so they want to use the Grammarly checker first.

Droidcam is a pretty decent option too for using Android phones as a webcam, that’s what I’ve used on Linux to accomplish similar things. Just run the droidcam server on the Steam Deck and either connect to it from the phone via local IP address or over USB.

If you already own the game on Steam just use Proton. It ran perfectly fine for me through various proton versions over the years (whatever was the latest at the times I played) or proton expiremental. Before they dropped native support I would typically run the game through Proton anyways as it performed much better than the native Linux version at the time.

Otherwise using Heroic game launcher should be fine. Prior to Heroic getting popular I saw that people were installing Epic Games Store via Lutris and that ran Rocket League fine too.

I didn’t have a specific plan for how I wanted to use it but having it around encourages me to use it.

Because of the Steam Deck I was able to kick back with it in my hands and be like “eh why not start Yakuza 0 I’ve had it in my library for a while” and now I’m set on playing through the whole series since they’re remastered on Steam these days.

Also is nice to have it around for whenever I wanna kill a bit of time and run some roguelites or other casual games. But overall it’s made it much easier for me to drop in and try out my backlog of single player games since it’s so easy to start playing even if I’m not in the mood to sit at my desk.

I’ve also found fun use cases like leaving it in its dock and using the touchscreen to trigger Soundux soundboard with the audio routed to my main PC. Or using obs websocket to control OBS on my main PC from the Deck’s touchscreen, kinda using it like an impromptu Stream Deck (lol). All around fun to use as intended and also find cool ways to utilize it when I’m not gaming on it.

Did you reinstall SteamOS or just clone it to the new SSD? I’ve seen people say if you don’t reinstall the OS properly when upgrading it can cause some issues but I’m not sure if those situations apply to what’s happening here

Scary but hey at least Reddit isn’t handing out the info so easily in this instance