Looking into it. I’m happy with ALVR, but I didn’t see any reason not to check out alternatives :)
Stampela
joined 2 years ago
Yeah, Nvidia and Linux drivers are a bad combo. I’ve been pretty much using GeForce since the first one, because notoriously the ATI/AMD drivers were not great. Then I switched to Linux and surprise! Sometimes when they update they’re so bad the entire OS stutters. Needless to say, I have an AMD one now… (and can vouch for ALVR! Not as polished as Virtual Desktop, but works great)
It does show up as nice and charged, but (in my instance) it’s very much not. As I mentioned it might be my specific setup. My theory is that something I plugged in keeps drawing power even after the Deck is off, but when the Deck is off, the charger doesn’t send power… so it uses up the battery.
In a day it won’t really show up, that’s not enough time in my experience. Also key here is that the Deck needs to be off: if it’s on then everything works as intended.
Yeah, it’s not a sudden thing: I believe it takes a few days just to have a noticeable impact. It’s just that my Deck lives on the dock for most of the time XD
What I’m describing is really nasty, as you think the battery is let’s say at 95% and you unplug it to be used as ha handheld. It’s updating a few games and you turn around, do something else… then check back on the updates and the Deck is off because it ran out of battery in a couple of minutes. I don’t think it’s good for the battery to be drained that much
As I mention always whenever this topic comes up, it might be my specific setup but don’t leave it off and plugged into a dock for long periods of time: it seems to discharge the battery and not realizing it’s happened. In my experience as long as you unplug it after shutting it off, there’s no downside.
What happens if you leave it plugged in for half an hour or more? After that, can you unplug it? Because at least for me, the dock can drain the battery (slowly) over time when the Deck is off, all the while the battery thinks it’s full. I would try keeping it on and plugged for a while, then unplug while it’s on.
And it’s a Linux thing, so you can do it with your desktop too!
I don’t know how the various options here work, BUT you might also appreciate them too https://libredirect.github.io/index.html (this is where I found the other link)
AFTER it went viral, not when they got notified that there was a problem. Fuckups are to be expected, we’re all human… it’s how they’re handled that matters.