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Valve gives kudos to “amazing” Steam Deck competitors (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[-] TheControlled@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago

Valve is the guy who steals your GF because he's nicer than you. And better looking. And he's still your friend somehow and you can't figure out a way to be angry without your ex and other friends thinking you're a dick and it makes you feel like you've lost your mind.

*This is a non-autobiographical joke for those who just can't.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

It's not even a "steals your GF". It's more like "is in a poly relationship but will wingman for you with his partners even if he knows you aren't poly and will try to get his partners to leave him. But they aren't very interested, especially when you try to act like running Windows is a feature."

Assuming the GF is a metaphor for gamers.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I think the GF is a metaphor for marketshare, not gamers.

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[-] figjam@midwest.social 23 points 1 year ago

I love my deck. I wish palworld didn't crash on it but thats not a deck problem.

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Does Proton GE help? I played multiple 6-hour sessions through desktop mode and haven't had a single crash.

[-] figjam@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago

I've not tried that but I will! Thank you.

[-] Sirence@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

You're hosting a multiplayer game?

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I wasn't the host, but it was a multiplayer game

[-] Sirence@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

The memory leak only affects the host.

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[-] M500@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

I love my steam deck so much. When a second green comes out, I’ll probably pick it up on day 1.

I know don’t get things on day 1, but I live in a third world country and we get everything delayed, so it’s not really day one.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

bought my gen 1 a bit after they came out.

ordered my gen 2 OLED day they announced.

This generation is a great product. They might fall down in the future but for now, the team deck is an amazing product

[-] gramathy@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Isn’t the OLED more of a gen1.5? It’s mostly a screen upgrade

[-] M500@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah the oled is like a mid generation refresh.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Battery life is much improved. The screen is quite a bit larger, and much crisper. I think the speakers sound better than the one I had before?

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[-] M500@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I got the no -oled like a month before th announced it. But I I’ll wait for a bigger upgrade before buying a new one.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I got the no -oled like a month before th announced it. But I I’ll wait for a bigger upgrade before buying a new one.

Yeah I had a freind borrowing my non-oled one and I felt like he would enjoy keeping it, so I just kicked it down and splurged on the OLED.

Its a pretty big improvement. The screen is kinda wow, the audio is great, the power is solid. 3x battery life? Its a real improvement on something that was already great.

[-] M500@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Battery life isn’t too important to me as I only play at home, so chargers are basically everywhere.

But I’m sure the screen is a big improvement. But I’ll get it when the next steamdeck comes out,

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[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I ordered mine like 2 days after they announced it, and I haven't regretted it at all. I almost never preorder things, but the Steam Deck just scratched every itch I had (handheld PC gaming, reasonable price, Linux, repairability).

I'll probably pick up the SD 2 pretty early as well. It's such a great experience and they've earned my trust with both launch quality and follow up improvements.

[-] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Same here, I was in on the preorder, and I've been burned too many times to want to do that normally

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I was only okay with it because it wasn't really a preorder. A refundable deposit to get in line didn't feel the same, since I ended up with a good chunk of time to check reviews before deciding to commit my money, and I got the device a few days after paying.

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[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

I've heard plenty of good things about Steam Deck. If I wasn't on a college budget, I'd definitely be picking up one (most likely second hand to save money).

[-] cynar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The value for money of it is unbelievable. I've used mine a lot, and I can't see many ways it could be improved (none without worse tradeoffs).

I wouldn't recommend it as a laptop replacement, but as a gaming system, it's incredible.

It also plays nicely with both the steam controller, and the steam link. Both can be picked up dirt cheap now.

[-] The_Lopen@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I was incredibly stupid and did buy it as a laptop replacement. The thing does what it was sold to do extremely well, but I have little Linux experience, and trying to learn Arch on SteamOS has been hell.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

You shouldn't need to use any of the Arch stuff on Steam OS. It had a read-only root, so you'd need to disable that to use any pacman commands anyway.

You should be able to get everything you need through the Discover store, since most applications are available through flatpak. That should be a similar experience as any other app store, provided you know what you're looking for.

The main issues imo have nothing to do with Linux, but the form factor:

  • screen to small to use for reading text
  • no keyboard, so that needs to be brought separately
  • doesn't stand up on its own, so you'd need a stand
  • awkward shape for fitting into a bag with other stuff

If you're always plugging it into the dock, I'm not sure why you wouldn't just get a desktop or something and keep your data on a USB drive or in the cloud. If you use it even occasionally as a mobile computing device on battery, just get a laptop, that's what they're designed for.

[-] The_Lopen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

You are absolutely right. My problem was trying to install a hex map-making tool for D&D, which only came as a .deb file. So I needed a tool to install that, and the tools I found needed pacman to install them.

In regards to the decision to purchase a steam deck as opposed to a desktop or laptop, I most likely just wanted an excuse to buy a new toy, justified as a way to replace my aging laptop. I'd love to say it was a younger me making that mistake. No, it was me one year ago. I'm not really a different person now, and would likely do the same thing given the chance.

[-] aclarkc@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Where can I get a steam controller dirt cheap? I’ve wanted one since I got my SD but any of them in decent used shape seem to go for $50-60 and often are missing the dongle.

[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I have zero exp with a steam deck and am not really a pc gamer...

Can the steam deck be used as a desktop or is it proprietary software or steam os or what?

[-] Weslee@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

As others said it's just a portable pc - there is steam os preinstalled, which has a gaming mode (looks alot like steam big picture mode from pc) and a desktop mode.

Many people install windows because of the compatibility, however I've found the compatibility layer (proton) works for 99% of games so I've stayed with steamos.

I've been able to play any game I've played on my windows pc by simply copying the installed files to the deck and running the exe via proton.

[-] GiM@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

SteamOS is just a Linux distro. You can use it as a desktop, install windows on it or do whatever else you want

[-] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yes, you can! It will connect to a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. With a dock you can hook up an external monitor or TV, and most USB accessories. It's a Linux PC in a handheld form factor.

[-] Patches@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

It can be used as a desktop. That said without an external keyboard, and mouse, and an external monitor - it is a very poor laptop. As a desktop it works okay but like a desktop - you must always transport, or have those things at the destination.

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