A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.
Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
Just got mine in the mail a couple of weeks ago. I love it. I haven't played PC games since I was in high school in the 90's. My son has one, and my girlfriend's grandson has one. We're all connected with family sharing. My daughter is interested in getting one now too.
Side note: Desktop mode is getting me used to Linux and I'm enjoying it. It doesn't seem as intimidating as I imagined.
My kids freaking love it, and family sharing is crazy good. I use it on trips. My other two PCs are running Bazzite.
Just added a 1TB m2 SSD Upgrade in mine
And I'm just here dreaming about getting one, with no chance of that happening anytime soon (or ever)... :'(
I was sceptical on how good it could be when it was first announced. Steam Deck 2 will be day one for me though
Seems like they're making good on a promise of incremental improvements too. Really happy with that device.
I'm not gonna lie, I was hyped since the announcement, and the love for this device hasn't died down.
I'm not a big gamer nor do I play on portable consoles, but the idea of an accessible portable console running a linux distro was amazing to me.
Yeah I preordered for sure
Steamdeck is great. I love it. On the flip side, I have owned a Switch for a couple years and hate it. I loved SNES so I guess I hate Nintendo Online.
I think every SNES game ever made fits on a tiny portion of the Steam Deck hard drive, if you can find where you stored your backups.
Seriously consider buying another one almost every day and the only thing that is stopping me is lack of free time. Wife and I usually co-op (or just play concurrently) on switch and deck but deck is really making switch redundant.
The main appeal for the deck to me is the ability to run games well on lower wattages. Sure the other options can run games better than the deck but it seems like you want handheld efficiency/battery life over better performance for less battery then the deck is the main choice.