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Got one last year for my bday
It's 100% worth imo
Even if you don't play games, it's a fully functional linux computer for like <$400 that can play most modern games and handle anything less intensive than gaming no prob
While I wholeheartedly agree. I do want to make one small note for anyone that reads this and thinks like I did.
Don't get one if you want to use it for professional audio work. It's a niche use case I know but I thought I'd be able to install Reaper and use it as a little music workstation since reaper is just right in the discover store. Unfortunately, the Steam Deck's audio drivers are basically only good for playing back audio. When trying to do audio work they were unusably buggy and had a bunch of latency.
If you want a little computer to make music with get a raspberry pi instead. Use the steam deck for gaming like it was intended for and don't be dumb like I was.
yeah you'd probably want to run JACK instead of PipeWire if you're doing audio workstation stuff, and with its immutable core there's no good way to swap them.