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Steam Deck

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A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.

Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.

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[–] [email protected] 152 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is that DJ GabeN dropping beats on the Deck’s screen?

[–] [email protected] 130 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

My life has peaked, it's all downwards from now

[–] [email protected] 141 points 3 months ago (4 children)

this is the weirdest political compass I've ever seen

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Playstation should definitely be top - right lol

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

*tries to navigate it and gets lost in the abyss of... whatever is 90° perpendicular of the Gaming-Platform-Compass

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What does your whole compass look like for you? Cause Nintendo needs to be auth-left. And I'm assuming lib left for steam, and Xbox takes lib right.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Nintendo's well-known record for being litigious makes it firmly auth-right imo

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[–] [email protected] 136 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Why are half of the comments in this thread talking about how the steamdeck isn't a computer? What the fuck are you all on about? Do you just need to be contrarian to be different? It's a fucking full computer, like has all the parts and functions a computer has....

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And the top meme when it was announced was "Yes, it's a PC".

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I see one comment like that, and they couched that opinion in so much praise for the steam deck that your reaction to it seems way over the top.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

It's the year of the handheld desktop

[–] [email protected] 91 points 3 months ago (43 children)

The steam deck arguably does a very good job at representing PC Gaming, hopefully more developers do this

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (6 children)

You need WSL to run it on windows /s

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

I love this animation of Gabe! Thank you for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Gabe looks like Lebowski there

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (8 children)

This is so exciting, gives me hope. Rockstar making gta5 not playable on deck for no good reason made me lose hope. So I guess this balance the scales

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

That libredirect still has no check for 429: too many requests?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

For transparency, I have a gaming PC. I have a Steam Deck. I love the Steam Deck to death and would never give it up. For many people, it is the closest thing they will see to PC gaming. I can say without a doubt that the Steam Deck is a PC in the same way a chicken is a wild bird. Can you do 90% of PC related tasks with the Steam Deck? Yes, but with a lot more work, and much more required knowledge. It's not even because of the OS, which is great because it's just Linux based. It's because the Steam Deck does not put necessary parts that average PC users need as forward facing concepts.

The Steam Deck is a console first, and a PC in a pinch and I wouldn't have it any other way. It's the reason I love the device, but also use it less. A good example is modding Elden Ring for Seamless Co-op. You can do it, and it's not HARD per se, but you may have to find files in the OS to make sure Steam knows to open them, and because of how the file tree works in Linux vs Windows it isn't really a simple case of "type the file name in search".

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Look, if they're gonna use a device running Linux* instead of Windows to represent "PC," I sure as Hell ain't gonna complain about it even if it is a handheld!

(* legitimate Linux, as opposed to some bastardized and Tivoized thing like Android or what they put on TVs)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It seems to me like most PC gamers don't touch mods unless there's an easy automated way to install them, something like steam workshop or maybe a mod manager if they're feeling adventurous. It's true that mods are harder to do on linux/deck right now, but I'm hoping with the rise of official mod managers that support linux it won't be any harder. Games that use steam workshop or have built in mod support (like BG3 and Deep Rock Galactic) are already just as easy to install mods on deck compared to windows.

I think the Deck is in a nice place where it streamlines the gaming experience for most people, but still gives you the option to do more advanced things if you want.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's a personal computer. Being in a different form factor does not change that.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

You can plug a keyboard, mouse, and monitor into a Steam deck

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