![]() ![]() Steam Deck is the anti-Switch, the opposite of Nintendo’s locked down fortress. It’s shocking what they can stuff inside a laptop these days, but often, their sheer size stretches the definition of “portable.” It’s a smaller computer. Previously, the closest solution to something like the Steam Deck was a clunky, expensive gaming laptop. Can you start tinkering with Linux command lines and mess up the device? Genuinely, nothing’s stopping you. Can you drop straight into a full desktop mode that looks an awful lot like Windows but doesn’t work exactly like Windows but will let you load non-gaming software, like Chrome and Spotify? Absolutely. ![]() ![]() Can you run games the Steam Deck isn’t powerful enough for, just to see how it works, even though it’s probably going to be a bad experience with a terrible frame rate? Sure. It suggests a world that broadens the definition of a “PC gamer,” making it less about how much you overspent on a GPU and more about PC gaming’s other biggest benefit: freedom.Ĭan you load the Steam Deck up with emulators? Yep. But time and time again, it accomplished a simple but complicated task: play games wherever I want, whenever I want. That magic comes with caveats: the (hot) fan runs loudly and constantly, even when idling the battery life is all over the place and rarely lasts more than a few hours on games that are modestly taxing to the hardware it’s large and awkward to hold.
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