Steam Deck

Steamdeck lets you set your preferred % and the dock does pass through charging/power, which I love because that combo guarantees the longest possible life for the battery. I turn it back to 100% for flights, otherwise leave it as 80% at all times. Mine is almost 4 years old now but I don’t feel even a hint of battery degredation yet.

Steam Deck here: - No Man's Sky. The new update is great, and the expedition is just moving. [...] I've tried playing at the lower settings at 30 FPS for better battery life and less noise, and it's actually pretty decent and more relaxing that way. [...] And the new update is amazing, too. [...] Used to play it with gyro, but the AI that Embark Studios has been using to look for cheating behavior signals has been issuing bans to such players. [...] Can't stop building! [...]

[...] Part of the "didn't" came about because I was being paper-cut to death by bugs that googling showed me had been reported for a long time, if not since the very beginning. [...] It also exasperated me that even though I was using a pretty fast gaming system, on a regular basis assets would take ages to appear, including buildings. "Fly to this place on the planet, land at this archaeological dig, wait 3 minutes for the dig to bother to appear before you can do anything." (saw identical behaviour on my steamdeck too, so doesn't seem "my machine" per se?)

[...] but hey, ive been able to play the xbox 360 version of NFS most wanted perfectly on steamdeck in one press of a button due to the efforts of the fine folks working on these recomps so ill take a small win here and there. [...]

[...] No doubt Timur contributed heavily to this given Valves Steamdeck (which uses a very similar but slower GPU). Given the current hardware prices it's pretty awesome to see someone squeezing maximum performance out of old hardware!

ASUS Eee 900e netbook Mod Background The ASUS Eee PC is nostalgic for me as it was the first hack I ever fascinated me as a kid It was a war driving setup for cracking wifi WPA and modding the firamware on the wifi card to let you send modified packets(details may be rusty) I love this form factor its so tiny and portable and has lots of ports I would love a modern usable at minimum setup. [...] Lately I have been chasing if Steam Deck is possible as gaming would be hilarious. [...] Currently, I am looking at two primary candidates for the motherboard but also have considered the display but the motherboard may change that so thats first. [...] Steam Deck Motherboard: 15W TDP out of the box. Display W - 21.5cm (22cm w/ screw mounts ) H - 13cm (14.1cm w/ screw mounts) Thickness .5cm Body internal dimensions W - 22.1cm L - 21.5cm ER-TFT090-3-5782 D - 1.4cm OG Motherboard Measurements W - 21.7cm(max) L - 21.1cm(max) - 14.3cm (hinge cove/pwr-button/jack)- 12cm(battery slot wall) (These dimensions are garbage rough I may redo them later) After full disassembly I looked at what I wanted to keep. The Keyboard and touchpad are a priority atm (touchpad buttons are on the old mobo so that’s a later problem) Touchpad The touchpad is what Im looking at now. [...] Keyboard (pics later) 26connections (30 pin ribbon cable) will be on the same micro controller as the touchpad and the left over gpio will be used for extras I will probably model all this out before I start buying parts. [...]

the steam client is definitely kind of terrible, maybe i’m just biased because i have used steam deck since launch which uses big picture, but there have been bugs in the client that were extremely annoying and obvious that took years to fix (for example, closing a store page and losing page position, but then the page would scroll up when pressing down on a controller for years). [...]

In general the steam deck is what made me comfortable switching to pc for gaming. I'm a couch and controller person and the old steam big picture mode was horrible. Then steam deck came around, and valve knocked the new bpm out of the park. [...]

[...] After my steam deck battery puffed up and my RX580 became too old to play any modern games, I had two choices: 1. [...] Hope to get a steam machine - but the crazy queue and the $1000 price tag really soured me on this 3. [...] Some times there's a crash or two. [...]

Arm Steamdeck? [...] Well the answer is so that you can disable it and have killer battery life and then just enable it later for performance. [...]

Local AI has completely changed my relationship with computers because now I can build utilities, tools, scripts, and get debugging help with my systems with far less friction than I ever could before. [...] Everything from system upgrades to custom Steam Deck launchers and ad hoc service scripts for my home lab have benefited from being able to run a two-bit quant of deepseek on my Strix Halo. I think it's going to remake our relationship with software because it completely alters the economics of creating one-off utilities, whereas software up until this point is generally regarded reuse as one of the highest virtues. [...] App stores will eventually become on-demand software and we'll view the marketplace analogy (where human developers offer their wares) as antiquated. [...]

[...] I know a lot of people who are steamdeck kids and are experimenting with steamos or other linuxes on the desktop because they are sick of windows in general. I'm about ready to pull the trigger on my windows gaming pc to move it to linux because I honestly don't really play anything that requires anticheat anymore. [...]

[...] I love my gaming PC, but there is nothing as seamless as sitting on my couch, pressing the middle button on my PlayStation or Xbox, and jumping right back into a game that was in a quick suspend state. [...] Love my steam deck, but the dock/handheld experience isn’t as seamless as switch and flipping from desktop to gaming mode had a like 15% chance of freezing the device until maybe 18-24mo ago. There was also that update issue for years if you left your home network. [...]

[...] I bought the gen 2s after I thought I lost my first pair but found them a month later. [...] They take a few extra seconds longer to connect, sometimes one doesn't connect until I dock it and try again or if it does connect, it has staticy or garbled audio on just one bud. [...] Connecting them to my steam deck requires telling the deck to forget them and then re-pair. [...] Battery life is not great on them anymore but they last long enough for my typical daily use.

Kinda funny I was trying to log into the network at a Hilton last night with a Steam Deck and I had to lie about my state and zip code because it took about a minute for the state dropdown to get populated with states and once I picked Ohio instead of New York, I couldn’t get the dropdown to open again so I looked up an Ohio zip. It was one of a number of small technical glitches on the trip including USB chargers that had bad connections and worked intermittently. [...]

[...] Like the USB chargers had bad connections so I plugged in my phone overnight and it didn't charge and the next morning I found I had to twist the connector to get it to work. And then when I tried to connect to the WiFi with a Steam Deck [1] it wanted my personal info to join their rewards program, but the complicated Javascript-based dropdown menu to pick a state barely worked and after a minute of screwing with it I was able to pick the wrong state but not pick my real state so I looked up a zip code in that state and entered it. [...] It bugs me because I spend my day fixing problems with Javascript apps and I know all about those overcomplicated dropdowns. [...] I don't travel with a laptop anymore, don't need to connect my phone with WiFi in 5G country and may or may not connect my iPhone. [...]

[...] In terms of a bug-free experience, nintendo games and the main cinematic sony games (including also last of us 2 and the like) feel equally good. [...] TotK feels like it should be a skyrim-like bug ridden experience but it isn't. [...] Animations, sounds, they do really know how to produce a sense of wonder. That said I hate the hardware, I own a switch and yet I play on a steamdeck. The screen's not that good, controls are awkward, the sticks start drifting as soon as you blink...

[...] I'm an engine programmer and almost every engineer I have ever met wanted to see our games run on the steam deck well - if not for any reason than just because they have one themselves or because it represents a cool challenge. I'm sure for some smaller companies the steam deck verified badge might be incredibly important - if your game gets featured in the "works well on deck" section it can be a big boost. [...] It was never said explicitly but there was an unsaid thing that the PC version is not worth the time and effort to make it and then support it. It was so far down the list that then worrying about whether it runs on the steam deck or not was not even on anyone's radar, except for some engineers who pushed for it themselves. [...]

[...] Anyway, as I failed to install FAF in my Flatpaked Steam install a few years ago [1], I would really appreciate a native Linux build for this (though I guess I could try the .exe under Steam/Proton). I also played a bit of Supreme Commander on my Steam Deck, and while it was playable, I would appreciate better controller integration (at least Steam Input to simplify UI overlay creation). [...] [1] It would have been possible, I needed to shoehorn a java runtime in there, but it didn't sound fun anymore and only had a few hours to play with friends

Steam Deck sells a tiny fraction of overall Steam games, in most of the world they are not fairly priced and Steam Deck doesn't have any focus on performance at all, they slap Deck verified on everything, even stuff that barely works. Source: I have Steam Deck since the launch. Nintendo might suck in many ways but in Europe Switch 2 is 60% of Deck price, provides way better fidelity in pretty much every title and I can play cheaply by just buying physical games and selling them after. [...] I barely pay any money for a game after selling it and sometimes I even earn money. Digital versions of indie game prices are basically identical in both storefronts. [...] Steam Deck is ridiculously shitty in that regard. [...]

My steam deck has been my main dev pc for a year now. Also serves Qwen 3.5 9B when I use my MacBook Air. Distrobox prevents OS updates from clobbering my environment.

Due to a lack of time lately, for past year or more I mostly play games on my SteamDeck and I absolutely love the experience. Last month I've build SFF PC for my living room running Bazzite and I love it too. Go Linux!

I still play my steam deck almost daily and I've had it for three years. It kinda killed my enthusiasm for anything Nintendo switch (which I used to play daily)

Steamdeck arrived so I immediately check the fit and its wonderful I’ll absolutely get this in there. 4b4320db-4d12-42af-93e8-1e8c76c2d2f71920×2550 998 KB 1ad62e06-df92-4dcd-9af7-a47980d462e11920×1446 821 KB

HDMI cables are cheap. The best roku is a 30ft HDMI cable. Actually I've used the steam deck in this role a bunch, works great.

Finishing up onimusha on my steamdeck. [...] Streaming from my PC to my steamdeck so I can hang with the gf around the house. [...]

[...] with that said I was blown away by the steamdecks support for AMD's APUs so I was looking for a laptop with the same generation APU to ensure support. [...]

[...] I'm giving ToME a go on steam deck now, I like the idea of having more of a narrative and open world. [...]

I use tailscale on my steam deck to play stardew valley with my son on my laptop, it truly is amazing

I love the Steam Deck because it is almost entirely a consumer electronics experience. [...] I've seen Windows-based devices that compete with it at Best Buy and I'm kinda shocked that, for a demo, they drop you on an ordinary Windows desktop with visual scaling appropriate for a 20x bigger screen and it is not obvious how to play a game -- such a fail! [...]

[...] don't put a case on it, let it gather scratches and dirt. [...] Steam deck and such are too much, they're for gamers and I'm no gamer. [...] Also, the devex is good, and I can build tools and apps in a weekend if I have to, and enjoy the experience. fwiw yeah it's expensive and i much rather enjoy simple classics than most of the art projects pretending to be games in the catalog.

Honestly I have a steam deck and that has gotten me accustomed to not sweating the lower frame rates. That and the ridiculous number of great indie games that aren't heavy on the graphics, and I'm not too worried about upgrades as much as I am worried about replacements if/when the time comes.

For shits and giggles I had Claude build out a full voice cloning pipeline that runs completely locally on my Steam Deck. I’ve got Gemma e4b, Qwen and Chatterbox all running on the AMD.

[...] This is pretty much what happened to me on my steamdeck the night before last. [...] Totally broken. [...]

I buy games via Humble Bundle when possible. They give you a link to download a DRM free copy, which I store away in a large drive. In practice, I often end up playing those games on the Steam Deck, but I know that in 20 years (if I keep that drive alive), I'll be able to easily spin up wine and play those games just fine.

I might be crucified for saying this, but I actually have a Claude skill file for that. I have SSH turned on for the Steamdeck, I use Lutris so all the configs are in a database, so I just point Claude to the MD file and the game files and tell it to set it up for me. The main purpose of the skill file is really just to save the SSH, rsync instructions and give it lutris config examples like which version of proton works, etc.)

It really is! Put several hours into this on Steam Deck where it's perfect for quick bouts. A very pleasant surprise considering I got it in a bundle and expected just to have a quick blast and never bother again.

Balder's gate works on Steam Deck? [...] Its like the game can't recognise the mouse and keyboard. [...]

As a Linux/FOSS and right to repair believer (I took apart my Steam Deck the first thing when I got it), I think Valve is one of the only bigger companies that still make hardware out of mostly passion. I adore the Steam Machine for its engineering ingenuity.

I ran out of 512 so fast on legion go s, (sd card reader sucks) Couldn't go with 256, but ive heard steam deck has a decent reader

Well some progress the steam deck motherboard fits well and its functional booted up to the stock os. Removed some support structures from the inside of the laptop case. PXL20260831021126058.RAW-011920×2550 828 KB PXL20260831021115782.RAW-011920×2550 857 KB

I can mitigate most of the cost by simply selling my steam deck. My steam library is gigantic so it feels like a good investment for me as I use my deck more than anything

OLEDs? That sounds like an amazing rig. [...] I got a cheap big screen TV and it looks like hell. Sometimes I put steam deck on the TV and play it from the couch with a PS4 controller.

was playing V on my steam deck before it died on my and now im playing IV on my phone and it's criminal how fairly underepped the series is when it comes to all time great RPGs

YEAHHH emulator handhelds are so fucking cool hope you enjoy yours (I’m partial to the trimui brick due to size but the steam deck which is basically a computer but I’ve been using for emulation has been incredible)

Turned on my Steam Deck for the first time since I got my glasses and wow OLED really is super bright, lol. [...]

i got a pretty neat startup movie for my steam deck, and an animated profile pic. now i need to figure out what to do with the other 99.9995% of my steam points

I dont know why, maybe I need some kind of screen protector but I never get as bad eye strain / headaches as I do on my laptop, steam deck, which is weird because they are all about the same distance away + usually set to low/lowest brightness

In an age of cross-platform everything, I'm starting to consolidate where I play my games. Between my PC, my Steam Deck, my modded PS Vita & my phone, I'm slowly figuring out what should go where. It's another layer of choice paralysis peeled off.

[...] I own a pair of XReal Air's. I stream bigger games from my main battle station, to my steam deck (Sunshine-Moonlight) - Air glasses. [...]