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my steam deck came in today

figured i would lay down some thoughts after using it basically nonstop since i got it about 8 hours ago, in bullet point form because i just.. can’t write about lots of things about something any other way.

  • first time setup was fast and easy
  • idk if i used a weird button combo without thinking when turning it on but i accidentally turned it on to the uefi boot options screen which.. damn uefi has improved.
  • logging into my steam account Kinda Sucked because i use a long and complex password that i almost always have my password manager autofill. i kinda wish there was a “scan qr code” option like discord or telegram but i extremely understand why there isn’t and most of me hopes valve never adds it
  • less of my steam games are “valve tested, gamer approved” than i thought there’d be. i have 1521 games on steam and 320 are “great on deck”
  • this thing gets Warm. not noticeable much during gameplay really but touching the screen or having my hand over the vent there’s really a decent amount of heat
  • the haptics are so good
  • gyro is honestly improved for being activated with the capacitive sensor on the right thumbstick
  • the touchpads are nice and i’m glad valve kept the mouse/scroll functionality from the original steam controller (which i still have and still love)
  • boot times are a little long.. or, well, i don’t mind a boot time but it would be reassuring to have Something on the Screen while i’m Waiting
  • kde is still an absolute banger i love it
  • sometimes when valve say a game Does Not Work (verified 100% real not clickbait), they are Lying. hard space ship breaker is marked as explicitly unsupported but it runs Fine As Fuck
  • this thing runs games real well. there are so many frames and all of them are appearing in very quick succession.
  • the touchscreen is..kinda unresponsive? i dunno if i’m handling it too daintily or what but it’s just not that responsive. during the aperture employmence game that shows off all the steam deck features, it had me sign my name on the touchscreen and Wow it did not pick up most of my strokes.
  • holy fuck proton is impressive
  • none of my powerbanks are powerful enough to charge this thing while i’m gaming
  • it’s extremely entertaining to see this Serious Gamer Device with a bunch of gay furry things in the steam library
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zuki
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it's great to have a review of a Steam Deck from an actual human a gay furry, I've been contemplating one as a cheaper(ish?) alternative to a new PC given that mine is from the oughts and I do everything on my newer laptop, but it's no gamers' 'top.

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i bought an alienware in 2019 with the intention that it would fulfil all my gamering needs for the next decade and then it started having all sorts of hardware issues as soon as the warranty expired so i just haven’t used it since because it depresses me, but frankly the steam deck works so damn well i wouldn’t be on the alienware even if it was suddenly completely fine. would definitely recommend getting one (the steam deck, not the alienware. do not buy an alienware.)

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I feel like there’s a lot of opportunity for itch.io to be great on steam deck; the client runs, and most games that don’t support linux would likely run very nicely under proton, but currently the client doesn’t allow you to even download games for other platforms, so you’d have to just download them off the website and set things up manually. I’d expect itch to improve this at some point.

GOG, i’m with you, i have a fairly sizeable library there, but their client doesn’t run on linux (yet?) and I haven’t been arsed to try downloading and installing games manually with proton.

Basically the potential is excellent and the support is there but itch and gog have not yet done much with it, so you’re left with a lot of manual downloading and configuring. I don’t know if there are any third-party clients that do a better job.

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