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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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[News] - News about the deck.
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[Meta] - Discussion about this community.

Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.

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[โ€“] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The form factor of laptops as portable computers sucks.

The laptop desperately wants to replicate the experience of a desktop and unless you have the money to spend on a luxury item version of laptop (which computer people seem to forget because they and all their friends have $2000 to drop on a toy) laptops fail miserably to do so.

My steam deck is superior in every imaginable way to a $500 laptop except for it isn't stuffed with a uselessly terrible keyboard and touchpad.

[โ€“] pathief@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I guess it depends on what you're going to do with it. I own a Steam deck and love it, but the screen is too small to work.

I would rather buy a small laptop, install arch and go wild. To each their own.