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

submitted 10 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 10 months ago

LCD, got a 256gb second pre-order batch but I got mine sooner than a lot of the first batch people. Probably because I'm the only one in this and several surrounding zip codes who would have bought one.

Love it. Very easy to use. Takes some remapping of your brain for controls but if I spent enough time using it it would be faster with the dual track pads than I ever was using the clit mouse on my old Dell laptop which I put at least 1000 hours of mine craft with since that was one of like 5 games than ran on Linux in 2010. I've always used KDE so I'm very happy.

I don't think it helps with adoption as far as users wanting it goes, but it does help in that there's millions of dollars and a huge market that's now behind Linux gaming. Users just want to play games easily.

Steam has severely decreased in quality but for me they make up for that with consistency. They've done a lot of great stuff, they've had some major flops, they've stopped making things that people demand they want. But at least they've stuck around and still don't seem like they're going anywhere. Only hardware(including consoles) manufactures have been able to stay in the gaming market as long as valve/steam has.