I just bought a Steam Deck!
It's awesome!
My Steam Library
I have over 300 games on Steam and no time to play them!
And I don't even have a Windows PC anymore!
I have been playing games on my macOS machine(s) for a while now but not all my games are macOS compatible.
But it turns out that most of them are Steam OS compatible! đ¤
The machine
A small handheld Arm powered machine with a nice OLED screen and way-better-than-expected battery life - what's not to like?!
And the compatibility layer is magnificent - look at all the games that are compatible - the effort that went into getting this working problem free - I'll tell ya... If I had had this back when I was running Linux on my desktop and laptop as a student, I would've never switched to Windows!
Sure, itâs got 16GB of RAM and a beautiful 7.4â OLED screenâbut what really matters is that it runs Elden Ring smoothly, and Iâm not tethered to a desk.
It works!
Fast, reliable performance. Running on a beatiful big-ish screen. Yes cores, flops, nits and gigabytes. Who cares?!
It! Just! Works!
Conclusion
Iâm not here for benchmarks or pixel-perfect performance.
I bought the Steam Deck to play the games I already own, wherever I wantâand now I can.
If youâre in the same boat, this little machine is an absolute game-changer.
10/10, would buy again.