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What are your use cases for the Steam Deck?
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this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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I wrote a long rambling post that I decided to summarise instead. I love that it's basically a PC laptop with all of the flexibility that comes with it, that's smaller, light and portable enough that I can I take everywhere.
But more importantly, it's gaming focused - the controls are great and it's fantastic for emulation and weird use cases, like running Interstate 76 with 3DFX support and the correct framerate.
I love that I can replace the hard drive or install whatever I want.
The weird games especially. For example, people complain about the touch pads not being usable for gaming, and that Valve shouldn't have bothered with them, but the amount of times they've come in useful for older games or consoles with weird inputs(Wii, DS, PC Point&Clicks, etc) has been too many to count. Plus, touchpads, gyro, and back paddles really is a killer combo for some FPS and other first-person games.
Thanks! That's a great input and is very helpful!