Oh, neat, I remember borrowing money from friends to buy one shortly after release, and spending many months repaying it. My main thought process, besides it being a cool PC, was “the higher the statistics, the better the outlook for Linux adoption”. :D
Can barely believe it’s been three years already.
I also bought a few steam decks to “support” Linux. All the work steam did for Linux gaming was such an incredible great thing for the world!
Bought the 512gb for me, then bought the 64gb for my wife. She got my 512gb ssd when I upgraded to 1tb.
We are both happy with it, and soon after we upgraded our computers to Linux.
The only computer without Linux is an older intel MacBook with macOS and windows for when I really need it. (Running specific tools for modding, hacking, firmware updates, etc). I rarely use it but it comes in handy every few months.
It definitely changed things for me. With end of life for win 10 coming and not liking win 11, I bought a SteamDeck to see how good Linux gaming has become. It worked so well that I decided to make the switch and put Linux on my new gaming PC.
When my current laptop kicks the bucket, I’m seriously considering a frame.work with the GPU board as my main gaming machine - with Linux
I use it nearly every day, often for gaming, but it’s also just a great little (tiny) PC. I love the no bullshit OS, and it even runs Blender 3D nicely. It’s a great machine.
I really want to buy it again but im kinda bummed out by the QC. I bought a new LCD model when the OLED came out. Not even a day, i noticed the trackpad has different intensity between left and right. and the shoulder button is the worse, the right one has weird double click and has longer travel. Returned it right away. The problem is, its not released in my country so i had to buy off 3rd party seller and i was lucky i can return it. Wouldnt want my new deck already opened and repaired on the first day.
A couple of months later i bought another one and guess what. Same problem. After reading around it is actually common problem for the shoulder button.
Still my favorite piece of technology i have bought in the last decade, easily. This thing changed my life. I fucking love the steam deck.
It’s a great machine especially for playing chill indie games that you might not run on a desktop as well.
