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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.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
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- 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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You can just use the Steam Deck like a Linux computer and ignore the steam part?
What's the point of having a gaming handheld and not game? Get a laptop instead
The form factor of laptops as portable computers sucks.
The laptop desperately wants to replicate the experience of a desktop and unless you have the money to spend on a luxury item version of laptop (which computer people seem to forget because they and all their friends have $2000 to drop on a toy) laptops fail miserably to do so.
My steam deck is superior in every imaginable way to a $500 laptop except for it isn't stuffed with a uselessly terrible keyboard and touchpad.
I guess it depends on what you're going to do with it. I own a Steam deck and love it, but the screen is too small to work.
I would rather buy a small laptop, install arch and go wild. To each their own.