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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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[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 40 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I’ll preorder Steamdeck 2 so fast my pants will fly off

[–] abobla@lemm.ee 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I don't know how to react to this

[–] towerful@programming.dev 30 points 4 months ago

Proper decorum demands also removing your pants

[–] Scio@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

With the gift of suspenders

[–] randomname@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Same, sadly there probably wont be a steamdeck 2 for a while considering valve is working on the deckard, I REALLY hope they announce it sooner rather than later though. I gave my steamdeck to my girlfriend and I'm waiting next gen.

[–] Eggyhead 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don’t think a deck 2 is the goal. I think it’s Steam OS. Third parties will be building better hardware and just throwing Steam OS on it. Your Deck 2 will be made by whoever built the hardware configuration you prefer.

Deckard is probably a means to ensure Steam OS is VR capable as well, which would also liberate PCVR from windows and meta as well.

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[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’ll preorder the deckard so fast my shirt will fly off

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This is great news but I'm curious what it's going to take for your underwear to fly off

[–] Llewellyn@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’ll preorder Half-Life 3 so fast my dick will fly off

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago

Wake up babe, new lower surgery tech just dropped

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[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's been 3 years ???? 😱😱

[–] FuCensorship@lemmy.today 4 points 4 months ago

Dude it feels like a year ago maximum, Jesus.........

[–] network_switch@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I was sceptical on how good it could be when it was first announced. Steam Deck 2 will be day one for me though

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Seems like they're making good on a promise of incremental improvements too. Really happy with that device.

[–] abobla@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] Macallan@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 4 months ago

Building quality products to earn money by providing value to customers, what a novel idea!

[–] JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

And I'm just here dreaming about getting one, with no chance of that happening anytime soon (or ever)... :'(

[–] Eggyhead 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It doesn’t hurt that a brand new console, the switch 2, will ensure new AAA releases will still be playable on older mobile hardware. It guarantees that the current deck will still be able to chug along with new releases for another 6 or so years.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Never underestimate the siren song alure of releasing the least optimized UE5 game ever made. Publishers seem to really struggle with that temptation.

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[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

My kids freaking love it, and family sharing is crazy good. I use it on trips. My other two PCs are running Bazzite.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 months ago

Just added a 1TB m2 SSD Upgrade in mine

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] LMurch@thelemmy.club 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

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.

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