Ask HN: What's your experience with the Steam Deck?
Highlights for me include:
- Console-like consistency of experience, but PC-like customizability. You can google how a game performs, and it will be that way for you, no unique hardware quirks to consider.
- Valve have done some magic with the proton layer. They even fixed a stuttering issue on Elden Ring and Dark Souls 3 that has annoyed me for years on my Modern Desktop. [1]
- It's Linux! Fromsoft never integrated steam cloud saves to Dark Souls 3, so I whipped up some bash scripts to sync over SSH.
- The community looks to be rallying with projects like emudeck.com.
- This thing is an emulation beast, and with 0 configuration, you can emulate pretty much any console up to PS3/360, without having to invest time setting it all up.
It's still very much a beta, early adopter product. Negatives would include bugs and battery life.
But Valve are iterating the software so fast, you can see the momentum swinging - this could be something special.
As a technical, Linux-enthusiast audience, I am particularly interested in HN's own experiences
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1HuX2_Hhss