I love my steam deck. It’s underpowered for modern AAA games, even games a few years old make it sweaty. But dang it if it isn’t efficient, and inexpensive.
You can’t beat the performance in your backpack for $300.
People talk about the other handhelds, and granted I’ve not tried them. But while they may have fancier features and more performance, it’s not THAT much more performance, you’re still hampered. And to get that extra performance, you’re draining your battery. All for at least 2 to 3 times the price.
No shade on anyone who loves their alternate handhelds. But it’s just not worth it to me personally. I’ll stick with my steam deck until version 2, whenever it’s ready, no rush. Because I know it’ll have performance and efficiency. Until then, I’m quite pleased 🤷♂️
Totally. The only kinda downside is that it has frozen root partition, so you have to work around if you want some console utilities. Not a problem for most people, though — mostly for folks that prefer console over GUI, like me.
But then for that you have distrobox, which is great. If that’s not enough, running another OS is also trivial, so that downside really is only ‘kinda’, as you say!
I bought the whole Steam deck, I’m gonna use the whole Steam Deck!
If someone asked me what peak optimization looked like, I would point to this. Makes as much sense as seeing this image without context.
![[Meme] The software compiling experience on the Deck](https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/f783729a-303c-4f87-bcbd-617d57e1bd0e.webp){kind=link}