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Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.
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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.
We had issues with simultaneous play as well. So we ended up with 2 steam libraries and 2 gaming PCs.
Put one of the steam instances into offline mode then you can play on 2 machines.
Yes, I know. Stupid workaround to an artificial problem.