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Steam Deck

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A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.

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[โ€“] w2tpmf@lemmy.world -5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The Ally has been great in my experience. Windows plus Asus's overlay make everything pretty smooth to navigate.

Then if I feel like having the SteamDeck experience I can just launch Steam in big picture mode.

Then if I want the Xbox experience I can launch that app.

..and can play Switch games, and PS3/4 games...

There's really zero downside too it. People spout hate because it's trendy to dunk on Windows, but I just don't see any issues.

Inb4 "but Windows is spying on you and full of bloat".... No it's not because I took 10 min to get rid of all that shit just like I would on any gaming PC.

[โ€“] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 19 points 9 months ago

Not saying windows is inherently bad, but I personally would rather have a device running SteamOS on first boot up because more people using SteamOS incentivizes Valve to keep working on Proton. If anyone out there feels like windows is better for them, that's fine since that's their choice.