Ask Lemmy

As someone who buys a lot of gadgets and quite often barely uses them afterwards or has mild buyers remorse… I have never once regretted buying a Steam Deck. It really is an amazing piece of technology.

Yes!

The Steam Deck often feels criminal to me.

I used to be into game console hacking, and because you were going outside the walled garden, everything was always unstable and your butthole would clench every time you did something new.

Then there's the Deck, which is just. Not a walled garden. It's a full computer that doesn't antfuck over what you do with it. I'm finally playing a bunch of titles from my Steam Library, yes, and it IS neat that Steam Cloud synchs stuff back to my PC so I can alternate between machines effortlessly.

But I also have mods on my games. And I have a bunch of tiny games like fangames and one-person indie titles from itch on it. And I ALSO have all my emulation stuff on it. AND sometimes when out travelling I don't take a laptop, just the deck and a keyboard/adapter.

And a part of me looks at it with its comfy console form factor and says "... This shouldn't be allowed. It's too good to be true."

I don't use mine super often but every time I do I'm glad I have it. It's a very nifty machine, and you'll find excuses to use it.