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Top 20 games played on Steam Deck in the past month, sorted by playtime.
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A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.
Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
So a steam deck... Is this a handheld laptop or a streaming device to your computer?
It's a handheld, standalone computer. It can do game streaming from a PC as well, but it's powerful enough to run games like Fallout 4 at 40 FPS.
Is 40 acceptable? All I ever see is people complaining if it's not 120 and I can't tell if it's just a meme or not. I play on console primarily for ease of use (I have toddlers), but I do have a pc that's mid range that does well but I just feel so isolated from my family every time I sit at the computer. Thinking about the steam deck but I know next to nothing of it.
What you find acceptable is entirely based on your personal preference, how much you've already been exposed to higher specs, and how privileged you are in hardware, so some people are memeing and others are serious based on these. If console and mid-range pc gaming is all you know, the Steam Deck provides similar performance, and it's a full on pc (with all the customization potential and non-gaming software availability you'd expect from a pc) in a handheld form factor, and a fairly console-like stock OS, if that's appealing to you. But if you want 120-240 fps on latest AAA games, no, you won't find the Steam Deck's performance acceptable, but then also you wouldn't be the target audience.