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Who is daily driving the Steam Deck? (programming.dev)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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In the interest of grabbing data points to plan for some tools for you all, I'm curious what the ratio of users are around here.

How many of y'all are strictly Game mode users, and how many of y'all use it like a laptop?

A lot of what I do on the Deck requires Desktop mode, mainly to get at a terminal and to configure Steam for pirated games. However, that doesn't mean I couldn't devise a tool that launches from Game mode to do the same things.

I suspect the latter is going to end up being something that I need to build to be the most useful to a wider audience, but for being pirates I'm sure most of you have entered Desktop mode numerous times for one reason or another.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's awesome. I love that Valve has made this thing the right amount of powerful. Not so weak like the Switch it's laughable, and not so ridiculous it empties your wallet completely.

I hear you on the Gullikit. I've never had one of their full controllers, but I installed their hall-effect joysticks in my Switch and it was like night and day.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I want their new controller because it has extra buttons on the back, like the steamdeck, but in general the unit I have has a great soft feeling, the same shape as a XBOX controller but with integrated battery and nice joysticks and overall nice feeling.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Damn, I wish I had done more research when I got a BT controller. The KingKong 3 MAX looks nice, I kinda like the idea of those squared off buttons.

I landed on the 8BitDo Ultimate. It's nice, and has hall-effect sensors, but I didn't realize until I got it that it's the godamned Nintendo button layout.

It also 1 set of buttons on the back, and came with a nice little charging dock, but I kinda wish I had gone with something else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It also 1 set of buttons on the back

And those back buttons don’t work as separate buttons but can only be programmed to press any of the other buttons/combos using 8BitDo’s mobile app. And Gyro only works in one of the two modes (BT/2.4G)…

I’m still waiting for Valve to release another Steam controller…