Now do Office, and I'd say goodbye.
More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck
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#292For people that own a Steam Deck, how do you like it? And how do you use it? I would like to talk myself into buying one, but I can’t think of a decent use case.
It's been great, as a new dad with a young kid, I no longer had time to boot up my gaming pc. Now that I have a steam deck, I play a lot more games. It's also by far the game console I fight the most over with my wife. She loves playing with it.
I don't mind the ergonomics. I find it comfortable to hold. Battery life is not great but I mostly play at home and I don't mind.
We also have a switch but don't play it that much. The steam deck is just more convenient because of the steam integration and the fact that games on steam are much cheaper and there are a lot more games.
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#293Which also means they are running on Linux. This is mind-blowing.
Which makes me both happy and concerned. On one hand, I am finally able to use my main computer for gaming without having to deal with dual booting nor emulation (in the VW sense). On the other, Proton completely kills native Linux porting. Amnesia The Bunker being released only in Windows despite the developers' long story supporting Linux was likely influenced by this.
I’ve grown comfortable with the idea that the win32 API is simply a gaming runtime now. I’m okay with this situation because A) I don’t have to give up any performance (or at least none that I’ve been able to measure) and B) the Proton/WINE stack is still open source all the way down.
It could certainly be argued that I’m doing some mental gymnastics here, but I look at Proton/WINE as simply being part of the game engine. Traditional engines like Unity/Unreal have all kinds of translation layers and indirection.
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#294Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good microsd cards are cheap as dirt and easy to use with a Steam Deck. I do not regret getting the lowest storage model and just using a card.
Thanks, just bought a base model + dock. I've got a bunch of 128GB SDs, and my only current plans are to use it for PC-98 emulation, so load times shouldn't be a problem.
Just so you're forewarned - some things always get installed on internal storage and people regularly have problems with it filling up.
IMO getting at least 256GB internal (or upgrading later) is a smarter decision.
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#295Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've clocked over 100 hours of playtime on mine since buying one in January. It's great. I've especially used it for reading visual novels. (Unfortunately Valve broke the per-platform playtime reporting that SteamDB had, so I can only say that I've played for at least 105 hours.)
Have you done any ie- PC-98 emulation? I've been debating whether to just host a VM dedicated to that and remote in or try running natively on the deck.
oh if you try, can you report back as a reply to this? I'm very curious myself...
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#296Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doesn't work at the drive-in, though thankfully ours only shows one preview before the feature. But the drive-in is an edge case.
> the drive-in Tell me you live in the US :D
Even in the US drive-ins are a relic of another time and most of them have closed. They were most popular from the 1950s to the 1970s.
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#297Valve had a sequence of strange failed experiments -- the Steam Controller, Steam Machines/SteamOS, Steam Link. But somehow these all came together to make the Steam Deck which is an astounding success. I don't know if Valve are geniuses or just incredibly lucky.
I think it’s simpler than that. They looked at the Nintendo Switch and decided to copy it, but for the PC. Nintendo was the genius involved. What Valve did is why Microsoft is successful. They executed someone else’s idea very well. Which isn’t that easy to do.
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#298It's an astonishing achievement from Valve. The plug-and-play nature is truly miraculous...I expected to have to do a ton of hackery to make games work but the vast majority of things I want to play work great out of the box. I'm a very happy Deck owner from day one, despite having a relatively powerful gaming PC and a Switch. As a dad with two very young kids I don't get much time for gaming, but the Deck helps me f…
I think they're to be commended on focusing in areas that aren't obvious, but have a lot of benefit.
My immediate example for this is 'gamescope'. It's like a mini compositor that really improves the edges between X/Wayland
For those using Linux outside of a Deck, look into setting it up!
Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck
#299Valve had a sequence of strange failed experiments -- the Steam Controller, Steam Machines/SteamOS, Steam Link. But somehow these all came together to make the Steam Deck which is an astounding success. I don't know if Valve are geniuses or just incredibly lucky.
>Failed Experiments Lessons Learned. The Steam Deck is the culmination of previous iterations. Even with the flop of the Steam Machines, The Steam Controller and Steam Link have ended up as Cult Classics, and there is the possibility they'll get revisions down the line, even if they end up minor niche releases.
I'm still beating myself for not ordering a half dozen Steam Controllers when they were selling them at crazy low prices to get rid of their stock.
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#300For people that own a Steam Deck, how do you like it? And how do you use it? I would like to talk myself into buying one, but I can’t think of a decent use case.
Just to pile on with everyone else, it's my main gaming device.
The only times I pick up my Switch is for Tears of the Kingdom. I put my old gaming PC to storage because I hadn't turned it on for 6 months (too shitty to bother selling).
I own an Xbox Series X, but the times I can hog the only big TV in the house are rare. The Deck I can just pick up and start playing where I left off. I also take it with me on commutes and sometimes play it at the office to wind down or keep the front of my brain occupied so the rest can think in peace =)
Even if new games became too resource intensive for it to run starting tomorrow, I'd still have literal hundreds of games I can play with it. And that's not including emulation. Combine that with the readily available spare parts and upgrades, I'll be keeping this for years.