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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.

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.

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[–] LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world 80 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Best $400 I've spent on a console by far. Including my PS4 and 5. Haven't touched my switch, PS5 or any other console since my deck came.

[–] ModsAreCopsACAB@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It came so hard.

[–] instamat@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The zelda sequel lured me away for a little while and spider man 2 for a lesser extent, but I spend more time on my deck than anything else. Hey that reminds me, I should dust my consoles.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My friend showed me TotK playing better that it did on a switch… on his Steam deck lawl

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That TotK runs at all on the Switch is nothing short of a miracle. That's Xbox 360 era GPU power, running a massive game at 30fps for the most part. Super stable as well, especially after a playthrough of the very crashy, other GOTY contender, BG3.

Really?

ToTK ram so poorly on my (launch) switch that I stopped after a few hours. Constant usually massive dips in frame rate put me off of it.

Returned my switch to a MarioKart/Smash machine for when my friends are over.

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly this is not applicable in my country. If you want to get a Steam Deck unfortunately you'll need to shell out more money compared to buying a PS5 or an Xbox Series X.

[–] notaviking@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly my issue as well. An ROG Ally is cheaper than the cheapest Deck. And both are more expensive that the PS5 and Xbox X

The Ally atleast has more performance than the Deck. Deck has it beat in software though.