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A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.

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My SO got a steamdeck today, and it's a lot better than I imagined it to be (programming.dev)

submitted 10 months ago by the16bitgamer@programming.dev to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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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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[–] Muffi@programming.dev 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was floored at how easy it was to get it to run Breath of the Wild, and then I discovered the 60fps patch for the game. Pretty quickly sold my old Switch after that.

[–] MoogMuskie@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago

Oof. Unless that's the only Switch game you play, you are going to have a hard time realising that Switch emulation isn't far developed enough yet for you to play a lot of your games without issues and just throw away your real Switch. Plus, Nintendo's takedowns of Yuzu and Ryujinx last year massively slowed down development.