Games are same and playtime is same. Linux gamer even before steam deck.

My neck is more often sore.

My first machine was a commodore 64, then Nes, SNES, Master system, Megadrive, N64, OG Xbox then Stopped gaming after the Xbox 360 end of life. Don’t have time to get setup in front of a TV or monitor or the inclination.

The switch came out and I got a chance of one cheap. Bought it loved that I could pick it up put it down and lock it so it was exactly where I left the game last time. BOTW was great played Skyrim again then got bored of the gimmick games with not many adult titles and Nintendo’s poor updates. And the joycons are completely shit.

The switch languished in a drawer for ages then I gave it to my 7 year old nephew.

I heard about the deck taking preorders so got my name down.

As someone who primarily plays 5 year or older RPGs it is an absolute dream machine. I can play it at work when I’m quiet, I can play it with the TV on in the background, I can lie in bed with it.

Put it this way if I broke the deck right now I’d go out and buy another tomorrow.

I really hope there will be updates to get starfield playable.

I will never go back to consoles that aren’t handheld again.

I play so many more platformers and 2-d bullet hells. I never enjoyed the latency of a wireless controller, or the inaccuracy of wasd inputs, and wired controllers are a pretty big no no in my house (we love our animals more than our electronics, but electronic loss is so hard to handle), the steam deck is great with most games native controller support, and the community layouts make most non natively supported games work wonderfully.

I just wish it had a built in kick stand, I bought a little stand for it but the deck is just a bit too heavy when it’s almost vertical.

I’ve started playing PC games again! Previously I’d lock myself away in my gaming room at my PC and my partner and cats would never see me, so I stopped doing that. Now I can sit on the couch with them and game while we watch a show together. I also play games on my lunch at work, being able to play Starfield during downtime has been a dream come true.

I’ve been playing on planes, airports, beach, outdoor.

But not much at home. There I still use the PC.

i don’t have a steam deck but now i play on my pc with linux instead of windows lmao

I am a father of young children. Prior to my deck, I would be just too tired by the time the kids were asleep to go downstairs in my basement and play on my desktop. That just led to me playing games maybe once a week on the weekend.

Now that I have a deck, I can kick my feet up on the couch and play for an hour or two before bed.

Because of the deck I actually am able to make time to play games. Without the deck I just skip games altogether during the week.

The switch did.

All handheld, all the time.

The steam deck means it’s less painful, and I can play more complicated games. My switch is basically untouched since.

Ironically enough, it’s led to me playing more games on the living room television! The steam deck helped me adapt to playing with a gamepad, as opposed to mouse and keyboard.

Until they come out with a Steam Controller 2, I will say the best gamepad for steam is the Dualsense (a Dualshock 4 also works). It’s got one touchpad instead of two, but Steam lets you map the left and right half separately, which covers my primary use cases. I also installed the RISE4 remap kit, a hardware mod that adds paddles on the back of the controller which can mimic any face button. Not as good as having actual new buttons, but it does mean I can run and jump without taking my thumb off the right stick.

I work from home 3 days a week. I have a decent battlestation, 5800X and RX6700 with a 38" widescreen and homebuilt ergosplit on a sit-stand desk. During work hours I use a KVM so I can use my work laptop with my setup.

When I built it out, I wasn’t prepared for how little I would want to game at that desk.

The only gaming I did since I built that PC was sitting on my couch with an old Steam Link and Steam Controller. It didn’t matter that the screen wasn’t as good or that I had to timeshare the TV with the rest of the family. It was a change of scenery that let me leave work behind.

Since getting a Steam Deck, I’ve finished more games than I have in years. Not only can I game away from my desk, I can hang out with the rest of the family without disturbing them. And if someone needs my attention, I can put it to sleep without worrying about save points or load times.

I’ve been playing more single player games. My PC has mostly been for multiplayer stuff with friends - Siege, Deep Rock etc. My Deck has opened up time to a load of Single Player things - AAA things like Spiderman, Control, Mad Max and indie stuff like Black Skylands.

Plus I had a load of work travel in the first part of this year. The Deck made hotel rooms much more pleasant!

I do a lot of flying and travel for work and the Steam Deck has been fantastic for it. My gaming laptop can’t draw sufficient wattage from the airplane’s power outlets so I couldn’t use it for gaming in flight, so I needed another solution that wasn’t gaming on my phone (let’s face it, most mobile games suck).

The Steam Deck gives me that extra versatility when traveling. I find myself playing games that I wouldn’t otherwise normally play due to the control scheme. I’m mainly a keyboard and mouse user so adapting to a controller for most things was a bit of a learning curve, but it’s much easier when playing games well suited for it (Ace Combat 7, American Truck Simulator, Euro Truck Simulator 2, FEZ). My favorite though so far has been Grim Fandango Remastered. The controls are so intuitive that it’s like the game was custom made for the Deck (despite the original being two decades old).

I haven’t really played FPS even though there’s a gyroscopic control scheme available, I miss the precision that the mouse enables. Hack and slash in TES 4 Oblivion works well though, but not really with bow and arrow shooting.

I also couldn’t really do RTS for the same reason, even with the track pad like functionality.

It’s great though for side scrollers, isometric RPGs, third person action adventure games, driving games, and simulators.

I take over the TV less on weekdays when I need me time after work. Means more time with my wife so it’s a win.

I’ve played my Steam Deck exactly once since I bought it when it first released.

I’ve installed games on the deck that I thought were interesting but I wasn’t in a rush to play right away. And instead of those games getting forgotten I ended up actually playing them.