What is your opinion on the steam deck?

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I am too old for hand helds but I appreciate what Valve has done to improve linux gaming.

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I meant the internal speakers.

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You’re never too old for handhelds. But I’m glad there’s other options besidesw the huge bulky Steam Deck.

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How ironic…

Are you serious? Sure, they want people to use Steam but desktop mode is part of the experience, I just can’t see why they would deliberately ruin it.

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Why?

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CS:GO is the most popular game on Steam by player count and it is a native game made by Valve. They invest in Proton to get everything running on Linux but CS:GO, their dominant game, still has some annoying bugs. But AFAIK they are looking into CS:GO on Linux bugs too.

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Yeah, I’m serious. I think Valve put that in because they had to, to allow other Flatpaks to be installed. But they really don’t want people using it. They want Steam to be “the” UX. The portal that they control. So they can drive purchases to them. I figure if they DID want people to use another UX they would have included GNOME (which would work great on the touchscreen) rather than KDE (which would be as bad as WIndows on the touchscreen).

If they really wanted people using KDE I also figure they’d offer more than just flatpacks to install. Mind you, I’m saying this is what they’re doing, NOT that what they’re doing is “good.”

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That’s literally the only game I have that won’t launch/work on Linux.

I was playing 2k PGA yesterday and it was fantastic.

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Which one did you order? Also do they charge you only when it’s shipped?

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The 512 Gb model. I paid a small deposit, once the deck is available they will send an email to pay full price.

Similar to Starlink, but I bailed out of that one. No availability at the moment in my region, they increased prices and pushed the whole thing for a year later.

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