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Clokwork

I created a post in the suggestion forum on Steam. I was told by support that the development team regularly checks this forum. I created a post to add an option to disable FRC. Drivers and software on other operating systems just simply don't have a way to do so, or it isn't support and may not work or can possibly cause issues.

I think SteamOS has the capability to be your only OS once released. Not just for gamers. Even though I do love to game.

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/601909079151043323/

randomboolean

Clokwork Great find! Definitely worth leaving a comment or post – takes just a minute or two. If they do monitor the forum and see a few posts on the topic, there’s at least some chance. Every post helps, even slightly. If no one says anything, then it’s a 100% guarantee nothing changes.

Clokwork

randomboolean I love the way you think. While we are a growing minority, I'd like to let them know also how much revenue adding this feature could make for them. Beyond those in this forum and on other similar forums and sub r/'s, I believe there to be many who suffer but have no clue where to find answers. Something as direct as a Temporal Dithering toggle could change many people's lives for the better. I know it would for me.

Sunspark

Well, Valve has limited resources.. I have a Steam Deck and I can tell you that as far as dithering is concerned, this is completely dependent on the amdgpu driver which doesn't currently have a switch for it. Will it come one day? Maybe, but not today.

So, as it is for handheld, LCD is usable, OLED is not (many complaints). Then as for desktop mode, the kernel version # makes a difference because the driver is in it and then the DE version because the compositor changed between the KDE 5.x series and the 6.x series. I didn't like their most recent (very bugged) 3.7 release so I rolled back to 3.6 which is fine to use in desktop mode. Not AS nice as my Win10 Intel igpu setup, but entirely usable.

If you want to just play around with it, just install Bazzite.. it'll give you the same SteamOS UI for gaming mode which uses its own wayland compositor. Desktop mode on SteamOS is regular x.org. If you don't care about that option being present then you can use any distro and any desktop to experiment with whether wayland or x.org. There is nothing proprietary in the drivers Valve uses. They do commission patches or extensions, but they aren't exclusive to Valve as they get entered into the mainline of projects.

Clokwork

Sunspark I would like to think that since they are essentially creating an operating system with a gamer first focus, they might have the time to develop a solution. I have no idea of the complexity and won't pretend to know. That said, I really like Valve and hope they can help us out. If they were the only operating system to offer this, I think even more people would people would convert to SteamOS for more than gaming. Currently, I believe they are supporting AMD GPUs. That at least narrows the scope of which GPUs for which they would need to account.

Sunspark

The only thing Valve made was the Gamescope compositor for their gaming mode interface and the Proton libraries for games.

Everything else is from elsewhere.

You can give these a try:

https://bazzite.gg/

https://nobaraproject.org/

Both sit on top of Fedora, the former is based on the immutable version (Kinoite, similar to SteamOS) and the other is mutable.

SteamOS is immutable, is based on Arch (but only rebases every year or two).

Valve is never ever going to have custom GPU drivers or even the ability to do much with anything. They just don't have the resources. That's why they outsource and commission.