
OvermindDL1
Steam Deck
I’m curious what’s the opinions on the Steam Deck of those here? A new handheld PC put out by Valve, primarily intended for gaming but is entirely general purpose (I’ll no doubt be primarily programming on it when I get mine, easier then programming via my phone to my desktop over SSH and VNC for sure).
Some of the restrictions on reporters have lifted on being able to report on their review versions recently (the hardware side, the default OS, an arch-based linux, not yet as it’s not finalized yet, though soon, you can install whatever x86 based OS you want on it though, mainly linux or windows, lol) so they’ve started coming out. It looks really fascinating, and for the price it seems unbeatable. I have a bluetooth keyboard I use with my phone so I’ll just keep using it with that no doubt.
Here’s some contextual links:
- Official Link
- For those that like video’s, and although I have qualms about this channel overall, here’s a good early hardware focused look at the Steam Deck that came out by LTT yesterday:
Valve Left Me Unsupervised: Steam Deck Hardware Review - YouTube
Anyone else have good links? Or thoughts?
(Maybe this should be turned this into a wikipost…)
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dimitarvp
The only thing that will stop me from buying it right now is the fact that I’ll likely not have time for it for a while.
Looks amazing and I have waited for an actual STRONG portable gaming computer all my life. I’ll likely fill it up with MAME emulators and whatnot; it’s almost certain to become my central hub of arcade and handheld gaming. No offence to my Switch.
And yeah it looks really well done. I also plan to be backing it up (completely) to my NAS from one point and on!

OvermindDL1
I’ll probably play factorio with some friends, but it’s definitely going to be just a better ‘phone’ for me, and I mainly use my phone as a remote development environment (not so much a phone), lol.

Hallski
I really don’t need another gaming device in my life but when I saw a screenshot of it with Factorio I would lie if I said I wasn’t tempted…
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