Finally. Thank god.

Yikes dude.

Learning when to say “you know what, I was wrong,” or even just, "my bad, I misspoke when I said what I originally said. What I actually meant was: " is a very important life skill as an adult. I hope you realize that one day.

You can also easily connect a mouse and keyboard (and monitor or TV if you want) if the controller doesn’t work well for the game.

Because it’s literally a PC.

Steam Deck is not just a PC, and its not just a handheld.

Yes. It’s both… And it is fully functioning as either. It’s really not difficult to understand.

Are you not aware of “Desktop mode”? Hold down the power button for a few seconds, click “switch to desktop mode,” and you’re literally using a fully functioning Linux PC.

But misrepresenting its utility as a modern living room PC doesn’t help anyone and is just going to leave people disappointed.

Did I do this?

Yup. As someone who hasn’t had a dedicated gaming PC in about a decade, I’ve been really happy with the PS5 + Steam Deck combo (well, plus Switch, but that thing collects dust until Nintendo releases a Mario platformer).

I recently got a laptop that’s not made for gaming specifically, but can handle them pretty well (with Proton), and that has scratched any itch I’ve had for PC games that don’t lend themselves to Deck or console (your RTS games and such).

At risk of giving away the game… I think people would be very surprised to see how cheap physical copies of PS4 and PS5 games go for when you catch them on sale.

FYI, the cops will not do shit with the info you gave them. Probably never even wrote it down.

Perhaps it’s due to the games I play not being online multiplayer for the most part, but I’ve yet to encounter a game that I couldn’t get to work on Linux, with ~99% requiring absolutely no effort (besides clicking a drop down menu).

And this includes games that Steam has labeled “unsupported” (not even just “unverified”).

At risk of being that annoying, “but have you tried lately?” guy but… Have you? Because it’s pretty wild. In many cases, the Windows version of the game, played using Proton, works better than the native Linux runtime.

No thanks

Damn sold out already

Not the person you replied to, but I’ve used a few of their products and they’ve been fine… But I will say that I hate the “edgy” marketing style they use for everything.