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Steam Deck: My Initial Thoughts

by Michael Banzon on 2025-08-03

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! 🤘

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, it’s got 16GB of RAM and a beautiful 7.4” OLED screen—but what really matters is that it runs Elden Ring smoothly, and I’m 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

I’m not here for benchmarks or pixel-perfect performance.

I bought the Steam Deck to play the games I already own, wherever I want—and now I can.

If you’re in the same boat, this little machine is an absolute game-changer.

10/10, would buy again.

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