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I ditched my Steam Deck 4 months ago -- but I'm going back | Digital Trends (www-digitaltrends-com.cdn.ampproject.org)
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About four months ago, I ditched my Steam Deck for Asus' ROG Ally. But with some distance, I'm going back to Valve's handheld. Here's why.

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[-] thingsiplay@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago

@AnonymousLlama
The Steam Deck and other handheld PCs also rocks for emulation, not only for light indie games.

Here is a part of the article which bugs me a byte:

By nearly all objective measures, the ROG Ally is better than the Steam Deck. It has solid battery life, a nicer screen, more power, and Windows 11

Having Windows 11 on the device is not an objective measure to be better. If anything, this is a subjective matter. In my opinion Windows is far worse as an operating system for a handheld PC (or any PC at all). Sure you have more games to play with, but the usability and customization sucks, plus Microsoft is spying on you.

[-] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Even by the standards of Windows, Windows 11 seems to be worse than 10.

[-] donuts@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

The dumbest thing about that statement is that nothing stops them from installing Windows on the Deck. I would never want to, but if someone felt that Windows was truly better for the device they certainly have the option of using it.

[-] derin@lemmy.beru.co 18 points 1 year ago

The amp link is completely broken and renders incorrectly on my 4k display using Chrome (lol).

Here's a non-amp link.

[-] thingsiplay@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@derin I had the same issue. Some suspicious request was blocked by my security addons and I thought it was just a false alarm. But used the reader mode of Firefox to make it readable: https://i.imgur.com/F4yv5VR.png

[-] NatoBoram@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Jesus, clean up your links, god dammit

[-] elouboub@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'm honestly glad Valve has a headstart on ASUS. Now it's a competition. ASUS can't rest on its laurels and has to put it a lot of effort to catch up which means the Steam Deck is the gold standard right now.

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