Steam Deck

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A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.

Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.

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[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.
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MSI Launches Claw A1M Handheld Gaming Device With Core Ultra 7 CPU, Starts At $699 (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] mrfriki 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The thing that the Deck does better than any other handheld is having both sticks, d-pad and buttons aligned in a row, that makes any combination of them comfortable to use, weird that nobody copies that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Because that only "works" because of how chonky the steam deck is.

The issue isn't even really the positioning. The issue is that you tend to hold a switch (or a gameboy or a wing-less PSP/Vita) with a "pinch" grip. so you actually have very little range of motion with your thumb because you need it to stabilize the handheld itself.

Whereas the steam deck is kind of heavy and bulky. so rather than pinch grip it, you tend to hold it more like a closed book (if that makes sense. Which means the deck is mostly supported by your stretched out fingers and your thumb more or less moves freely.

For another handheld to do that you would either need it to be a lot wider (less portable), heavier (no point), or have built in wings (which is what most of us bought for our Vita) which similarly kills the portability.

For what its worth, checking out a friend's GPD when I was still considering it a few years back had the same benefits.