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Been thinking about getting a steam deck. Talk me in or out of it. I've got a desktop, but thinking something handheld would be good when I want to sit on the couch. What are your favorite and least favorite things about your steam deck?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It was honestly a life saver for me. I got Long Covid and became increasingly bed bound. The Deck enabled me to somewhat keep me sanity by playing in bed.

And that way I don't have to fight with my kids over the desktop PC. Although they sometimes want the Deck for those games that play better with a gamepad.

Simultaneous play also showed the dark side of Steam. Unless one of the devices is offline you cannot play two games from one Steam library at the same time. Luckily I also have many games on Battle.net, GOG and on my old discs, so I can easily move to another game in case of a clash.

I'm currently playing Spider-Man Miles Morales and having a blast.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We had issues with simultaneous play as well. So we ended up with 2 steam libraries and 2 gaming PCs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Put one of the steam instances into offline mode then you can play on 2 machines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, I know. Stupid workaround to an artificial problem.