Question: How Do You Feel About Tackpads? (m.youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Hungry_Panda@lemmy.ml to c/steamdeck@lemmy.ml

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I was watching this video the other day and our friend Bob made a comment about the steamdecks trackpads, essentially calling the bad. I want to know what the community thinks.

For me, they are a game changer. They are not the best implemented trackpads I've ever seen but on a handheld it made a world of difference setting up any desktop software like emudeck, and any of the associated emulators. Civ games in my opinion are easier to navigate and I would be hard pressed to try to play any type of RTS game without them. Not to mention that after a year of having the Deck, I just learned how to comfortably type with them. I've bound them to be a radial dial of tools within games and with the desktop mode.

This morning I heard of the Aya Neo Kun, a 75 watt hour x86 handheld with trackpads. Outside the GDP WIN 4 with it's physical keyboard this is the only other x86 handheld I think I could consider using. I believe its physical trackpads would help me navigate the nightmare that is windows 11. I will always prefer a mouse and keyboard but on the go, they've been a handy tool to getting things done.

Love em, hate em, or just don't care about em, I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts.

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[-] Zeus@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Square because trackpads have always been that way my dude and can be set to a ratio similar to common screen sizes.

what? the only two controllers i know of that have trackpads are round. apart from ps4 controller - i don't think many people use that for camera movement. and if you're talking about laptop touchpads: you don't hold a laptop like that, and they're also 4 times the size. they're incomparable

Not awkward at all seeing how we hold smartphones these days and the onscreen keyboards are typically in the same location our thumbs need to reach when using both smartphones and the deck trackpads.

the deck is much heavier than a smartphone; and has two bumpers, two triggers, and a four back buttons that i need access to. again, that's not really relevant. unless you just use them for typing, and never in games

Sure you can argue size is small but most likely the deck internals won’t allow for larger size.

yeah. great. i'm sure you're right. that doesn't preclude my point that they're useless for gaming. also, i would rather have larger pads and eschew the face buttons and dpad