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Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by BizarreByte »

birracerveza wrote: post #16
barney54 wrote: post #9

For 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 a (kind of) portable PC. A much clunkier version of the Switch, which for some that might be a good thing as the Switch is mostly a toy. It's not for everyone for sure, but it's an excellent way to have every PC game, including emulators, on the go... Which is basically 90% of all games ever created. Personally I wouldn't take it outside my house, but I could see myself bringing it with me if I were to travel a…

I use mine as a desktop replacement since I don't want a full PC sitting around. I dock it via USBC, use desktop mode, and it's pretty good. It has more than enough power for me, and it's nice to be able to undock it and just take it somewhere

Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by ekianjo »

KingOfCoders wrote: post #38

Has someone sold ther Steam Deck for a ROG Ally? Why? Has it the same compatibility?

No idea about such stats, but the ROG Ally has several problems:

- Windows as the key interface

- very poor battery life (even worse than the Deck!)

- no trackpads so this limits what you can ever play with it to games made for gamepads

- none of the SteamOS goodness

Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by fendy3002 »

barney54 wrote: post #9

For 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.

Screen is kinda small for newer, high res games but still enjoyable. More suitable to PS2 1024x968 era so perfect for emulator PS2 and earlier. For indies or 2d like stardew it'll be no problem.

Form factor is good, no problem so far with controller position. Rather big and rather heavy, not as portable as psp or nds but definitely portable.

Battery lasts only 2 hours-ish for AAA games though, much longer for lower specs.

Suspend and continue works wonder, though anticipate for hang or freeze that you'll need to save before if can.

Controls can be mapped freely for each game which is amazing, 4 back buttons works wonder to add more functionality to already limited buttons. Moreover the radial menu with trackpad is superb.

If you don't have gaming pc or laptop, you'll definitely like this, though maybe you'll need usb hub, keyboard and mouse if you want to enjoy games that doesn't support controller (sim city). If that's the case, slap an external monitor too since you'll need a bigger screen to play those games.

Otherwise you can lie sideways on couch, or I read you can lie on the back with pillow to rest your hand to play deck. Perfect for open world and action games.

Haven't really tried sd card so I don't know how flexible it is to play from it, but I guess it'll works wonder for less than latest AAA games.

Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by gpderetta »

esjeon wrote: post #25
m00dy wrote: post #12

oh finally, we see linux gaming rising.

... but is this the year of linux desktop...?

Don't know about desktop [1], but it could be the year of the Linux handheld.

[1] my personal YotLD was '99.

Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by IggleSniggle »

birracerveza wrote: post #16
barney54 wrote: post #9

For 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 a (kind of) portable PC. A much clunkier version of the Switch, which for some that might be a good thing as the Switch is mostly a toy. It's not for everyone for sure, but it's an excellent way to have every PC game, including emulators, on the go... Which is basically 90% of all games ever created. Personally I wouldn't take it outside my house, but I could see myself bringing it with me if I were to travel a…

I do wish the desktop mode was slightly better when portable. It was a little inconvenient issuing CLI commands from my bed last night. Still better than doing it on a phone screen though for sure.

Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by christophilus »

cloverich wrote: post #20

Though I've long since given up on my gaming days, I purchased a Steam deck last month, mostly out of impulse. I'm frankly astonished at the amount of playable games, and also the amount of quality indie games out there. I spent $50 picking on-sale indies and quickly had a backlog. Its been more enjoyable (and surprisingly comfortable) than I expected too. I'm definitely in the very casual crowd at this point, gaming…

PSA: Two of my favorite games, Limbo and Inside, are on sale now for a bundle deal of $3. That’s a great value.

Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by sylware »

Do you know: titles with a native elf/linux build which does not run in the official steam runtime won't be validated.

Some titles are getting c++ ABI/glibc issues because if they build "outside" the steam official steam runtime they will be hit full frontal by c++ and glibc planned obsolescence (they would have to control in a fine grained way the symbols/versions they link their binaries with... feature not provided by the sourceware binutils...).

Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by IggleSniggle »

KingOfCoders wrote: post #38

Has someone sold ther Steam Deck for a ROG Ally? Why? Has it the same compatibility?

There's no way I would ever do this. The Steam controller overlay is my killer feature! The Deck controller is brilliant. If they issued a v2 controller that copied the deck I would buy it in a heartbeat.
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