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Especially since one of the best features is basically unmentioned. Turn on your steam deck and before you sign in for the first time, you can boot straight to the desktop. Just wish there was a toggle in Plasma to boot to desktop by default.

For all intents and purposes, you don’t need to log into steam to play games on the steam deck which is honestly shocking where most new hardware basically requires you to agree to sign in to begin using your device.

Looking at you Windows 11

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[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I might be slightly biased, but I can also recommend OpenMW for Deck.

[–] Walican132@lemmy.today 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are you using the controller to play it, or a mouse and keyboard?

[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Done both, but I've found I rather enjoy the mix of stick and trackpad, emulated as KB+M

[–] Walican132@lemmy.today 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks! Really jonesing for some Morrowind or obkivion but my deck lives in a dock next to my TV so I’m not sure how comfortable either game will be with a wireless controller versus holding the deck.

[–] hangonasecond@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oblivion was released on consoles and had great controller layouts. I played it for years on PS3. Not sure if Morrowind has a similar experience.

[–] Walican132@lemmy.today 1 points 9 months ago

Yea for the original Xbox, however neither PC version has those supports built in. And the mods seem to be a mediocre experience in comparison, I may just buy the Xbox/360 versions of Morrowind and Oblivion to play comfortably.