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Happy four years to the Steam Deck - still the top PC gaming handheld (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 1 month ago by ZippyBot@lemmy.zip to c/gaming@lemmy.zip

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[–] nyankas@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

I love my Steam Deck, but I hate that it‘s still the best gaming handheld on the market. Valve has been pretty transparent about their process of getting the Deck right. Things like working with AMD to create a mobile APU optimized for gaming, using an optimized OS and an optimized UI, balancing performance and battery life, using and iterating over the controller design, leveraging FOSS and so on.

But somehow no one else seems use all of this knowledge, trying to innovate on top of it. Sure, there are handhelds which take some of these learnings into account, but never enough of them to actually improve on the Deck as a whole. I would have expected other manufacturers to catch up with Valve four years after the Deck‘s release. I don‘t like only getting excited about gaming hardware made by a single company.

[–] stephen01king@piefed.zip 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's unbeatable to me by the sheer fact that it has dual touchpads.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is why I want the controller so fucking bad

[–] stephen01king@piefed.zip 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Same exact reason I want it, as well. Right now using a controller with the Steam Deck always feel like a downgrade.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Not the least of which is the lack of the "..." menu button.

I'd love to use deckyloader apps without getting up from my couch, but that's not possible yet

[–] SlyLycan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

This is so important to me. My brother-in-law and I talk about it all the time. It boggles our mind that no one has run with this. So nice for so many things!