That poor woman
Having to deal with a guy who uses windows on his Steam deck
I would hope she would have known about his red flags before the baby lolol
Can't play tarkov on steam deck without windows or moonlight and moonlight over hospital wifi would be worse than tarkov natively over hospital wifi.
You can. I just played until level 36 and uninstalled.
“Wife’s pregnancy”
I’m wondering who is the father
You think he's pregnant?
What idiot would install windows on a steam deck. Defeats the whole point.
My thoughts exactly
Poor woman. Having a baby with some weirdo who installed windows on his steam deck, who brought his gaming setup when you're in labor. Idiocracy was a prediction, not a comedy.
I mean it was probably consensual so the only person I feel bad about is the kid.
steamdeck
windows
I think this is an offense worthy of capital punishment
The kind of guy who installs Windows on his steam deck is the same kind of guy who won't let his wife get an epidural.
He did say he played Tarkov.
It's the woman's choice to get an epidural or not though...
Block out your annoying wife's contractions with these Audiophile Headphones™.
Windows
You Monster. I thought the worst part was setting up a gaming set up while your wife was in labour was fucking stupid but WINDOWS?
I'm no audio expert, but I feel like "audiophile headphones" and "headphones you can power directly from a steam deck" are probably mutually exclusive
Not necessarily, some high-end headphones manage to have a low resistance and high sensitivity combo and are easy to "drive" without a dedicated amp.
I use planar headphones which are not too bad to drive, but most of the time I need some extra power. The deck actually is capable of blowing my eardrums out still
Impedance and audio quality are not intrinsically linked.
I'm betting that it can drive 250Ω headphones. Verifying.
EDIT: Yup. DT990s actually doing pretty decent.
EDIT 2: Not that I expect that OOP has actually nice-sounding and comfortable cans (the latter, along with repairability, is the reason that I have em in the first place), since they referred to them as "audiophile" headphones.
There are good headphones that can work with a headphone jack.
Why would anyone brag about any of this. His poor partner.
I can see bringing the Deck, like you might be sitting there for at least 24 hours, you don't need to be sitting there holding their hand the whole time...
But the keyboard? The mouse? The HEADPHONES? It's not like you're in an extended stay. You're getting that baby out and going. You don't need all that.
Right... I hope this isn't the begining of a shitty broken home and the birth of lost soul.
Engagement/rage bait. Or maybe it's just satire?
Le setup. I love these guys posting their balls like this
You guys have clearly never had kids. It almost never goes like in the movies, you rush into hospital, and then you wait. Especially if the water broke, then you wait few days. There is absolutely nothing to do in the hospital. I would have killed for steamdeck, or even a switch.
He's didn't bring a second controller. Divorce.
Windows on steam deck
Explains the behavior lmao
Windows on steam deck Is blasphemy
I like how everyone is giving shit to the dude for "not being there for his wife," because I remember the OG post from Reddit where OP and his wife were explaining that it was cool, she said it was okay and even encouraged it, and was unconscious most of the time during recovery anyway.
I don't even think the windows on steam deck part is even from the OG, but maybe I just missed that in the comments.
For me it's the bit about bringing almost a whole desk setup instead of using the portable as a portable
Yeah seriously use a gaming laptop at that point. The point of the Steam Deck is that it's compact and quick to put away
People don't realize how much downtime there actually is even in a normal pregnancy. Baby and mama get sleepy. But in something like an emergency C section scenario, especially if the baby is early you could be looking at a half week recovery period for mom and the baby gets locked up in NICU jail for a week... Where you only get visiting hours for your own kid.
You shouldn't just be there because the woman is important to you, but above all the child. From that point on, it shows that he's not in the mood and is more focused on his hobbies. So he can't separate himself from his shitty technology at such important events and maybe just read a book or something...
I feel bad for the kids future
Bruh newborns sleep a lot.
So do women recovering from childbirth.
Most of what they're doing is sleeping.
For multiple days, you're kind of just at the hospital to be support when needed. There's not a lot to do if you don't bring it with you.
One thing is clear about a lot of guys here, and that's that they don't have children and are almost certainly single.
Who the hell puts Windows on a Steam Deck? What a loser
Oh and he's not being present with his wife
Not to rain on the anti windows parade, but he has to install windows to play Tarkov. You cant play it on linux due to anticheat.
I see this as an absolute win for Linux
Although I understand this on a factual level, I still question the set of priorities that leads someone to install an operating system in order to run a single game.
Also, his wife must've been enthused to see he brought all his "performance upgrades."
I imagine they're dual booting.
if they already have a copy of the OS anyways, I totally get it. If you have the resources to play the game you wanna play, any would you intentionally deprive yourself of that?
But yeah, bringing all that to the hospital is fuckin nuts. God I hope that his wife is a huge nerd too and that this was like a joke between them and he didn't actually use it during active labor or after the baby was born.
Can’t run it on linux? Can’t run it at all.
I think you can play PvE Tarkov because the raids run on your machine (except for Streets). But if you're already willing play PvE you might as well play SPtarkov which does work on Linux and has a modding scene that offers a significantly better PvE experience.
EDIT: just a PSA that Tarkov uses Battleye, which supports Proton. Just like with almost every other game the only reason you can't play Tarkov on Linux is because the developer doesn't want to you to do that.
Isn't it also... Ridden with filthy cheaters? Lol
It's almost as if kernel level anti cheat is no match for heuristics and more secure game code.
Because there aren't 100000000000000 other, much better games to play out there. Nope. Tarkov is the only game ever created that is any good. So good that people are willing to allow rootkit anti-cheat garbageware to be installed on their system to play this holy, godly, superhyper great game.
Let people like things
Lol Windows.
If only there was a device that combined the Steam Deck with a keyboard and a 14" monitor. Like a Steam Deck that is designed to sit on top of your lap....
Pfft next thing you'll tell me is that it'll "fold up" when you're done with it, get real pal your head is in the clouds lmao
I have never understood this. People buy a handheld they then add a mouse, a keyboard, an external GPU, and a screen. And this all fits nicely in their travel bag. I like my handheld but i dont want to add all this stuff and make it a desktop or a laptop....
installs windows, instantly requires system tweaks and performance upgrades.
Hoping he means just for the labour, not the whole 9 months
Bro probably could
I don't know how some people find the time to do anything but help take care of mom and the baby. I was either sleeping or helping while trying to find time for food.
I was sitting next to my wife for a few hours talking to her (we brought food and so on, so no need for me to go anywhere).
I mean, I would have had time to play games, but I doubt I'd still be married. Tbf, I never even thought about that possibility before seeing this post.
I could maybe understand it, if it was a problematic pregnancy. Like, the wife of a friend of mine had to lie in a hospital bed for several weeks before giving birth to reduce the risk of premature birth. You'll want to spend as much time there as possible, but after sitting in a room together for weeks, this might start to sound like a good idea,
Everything you saw and thought, "I should help with that."; they don't.
What an odd way to spend ten months.
This is the kind of setup that once it's complete you smile at how awesome it is, then pack it up because you don't know what you even want to play and most of the games I do I wanna play i wanna play on a better monitor.
And then you realize you should propably spend time with your wife who is about to go through some of the worst experiences in life of having a baby and dealing with all the shit afterwards.
Extraction shooter, but it's getting extracted from the womb.
Not my ideal setup but happy he's happy.
Playing Tarkov on a screen that size might as well be impossible lol.
Imagine trying to spot killa power sliding across the halls of interchange in the dark fog from 150 meters out. Good fuckin luck lol.
