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Steam Deck Users: What do like most about it? (hexbear.net)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1532769

If you own a Steam Deck (either OLED or LCD) or have used one in the past, what are your thoughts? Did you find it easy to use? What is your opinion on the "Desktop mode" with KDE? Do you think it helps or hurts Linux adoption? What are your opinions on Steam as a whole and Valve's business practices beyond the technical stuff like Proton.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

It think it's great, already had a ton of time playing many of my favorite games multiplayer on the couch, or in bed, or when travelling.

Don't really care about desktop mode, but I'm glad it's there so I can go behind the curtain and configure discord and emulators and stuff.

I really really wish they would implement CEC so my TV can turn on and jump over to it from my Roku or Switch automatically.

They need to find a way to do better than Bluetooth controller support. It's a bit laggy for games like Rocket League, and I wish it could wake up the device and kick in the CEC (see above).

Getting it to show up on my TV when docked took a bit of poking (I think I had to force it to use 720p).

I know I spent a lot of time on the "rough edges", but I have no regrets at all about the purchase. It's a "very good" device that will hopefully get even better.