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.

These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.

Rules:

Follow the rules of Sopuli
Posts must be related to the Steam Deck in an obvious way.
No piracy, there are other communities for that.
Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
Have fun.

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[–] nova_ayashi@reddthat.com 22 points 1 year ago (13 children)

I want one of these, but at the same time I'm not sure if I want it because everyone else wants it, or because I'd actually use it (my Switch is in a storage box because I never turn it on)

[–] azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Besides Switch-like form factor (although a bit chunkier) and Steam games on the go Steam Deck offers:

Insane mount of control custamizability: you can play games that are only for mouse and keyboard from the comfort of your couch, bed, any place really
Great 3rd party ecosystem: there is a shit ton of stuff for SteamOS that community prepared to be easy to setup like emulators, plugins, non-steam launchers etc. Discovering that can be fun on its own
Find your own use case, customize hardware and software as much as you like with only sky being the limit.

If that's not your jam, move on I guess.

[–] WigglingWalrus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love the concept of it. It's just the games I enjoy I can't imagine would translate well to a controller instead of keyboard and mouse. Maybe someone will prove me wrong!

[–] Bael422@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I thought similarly until I tried it out. There's community control schemes you can copy for games, plus there's 4 extra buttons in the back you can quick remap them to either keyboard/mouse buttons or controller inputs, along with two click touchpads that can do that and more. Plus you can quick call a touch/navigatable keyboard to the screen. It takes a bit to get used to but once you do, it's hard going back. I actually ended up preferring using it handheld over using a dock to hook it to a TV with a controller paired to it.

The only games I'd say are hard to use would be like some mmorpg games that are best for keyboard & mouse.

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