Plus all those Steam Deck rivals are creating mediocre products
While I hugely appreciate what Valve has done for Linux Gaming with Proton and the popularity of the Steam Deck, there are excellent Steam Deck rivals out there. Could you clarify what you mean by mediocre?
The touch pads are the killer feature, imho. They are the key to making mouse centric games playable. I wouldn’t want to touch eg stellaris with an 11 feet pole with joysticks or touch screen but sank so much time into the game on the deck.
I mean, there’s also so much other stuff… The device running on Linux and giving unrestricted access to the desktop. The software being great. The case being screwed, not glued. Valves super relaxed stance on people modifying the hardware. It all adds up. But from a purely user centric pov, I wouldn’t buy a PC based handheld without the pads after I saw how well they work.
If only NVIDIA was committed to release their software as open source and have a decent open source Linux driver.
Plus all those Steam Deck rivals are creating mediocre products even if hardware wise they are faster than the Deck.
While I hugely appreciate what Valve has done for Linux Gaming with Proton and the popularity of the Steam Deck, there are excellent Steam Deck rivals out there. Could you clarify what you mean by mediocre?
The touch pads are the killer feature, imho. They are the key to making mouse centric games playable. I wouldn’t want to touch eg stellaris with an 11 feet pole with joysticks or touch screen but sank so much time into the game on the deck.
I mean, there’s also so much other stuff… The device running on Linux and giving unrestricted access to the desktop. The software being great. The case being screwed, not glued. Valves super relaxed stance on people modifying the hardware. It all adds up. But from a purely user centric pov, I wouldn’t buy a PC based handheld without the pads after I saw how well they work.