I got to check the Steam Deck Oled and man, it's hard to deny that screen is a selling point. It really feels good to use as intended.
Unfortunately after a few minutes I was reminded why I moved on from the Deck in the first place. So many gaps in my library without GOG access, such a hassle to set up Retroarch. Wanna reach a shared network folder in Game mode? Good luck with that.
It makes sense for many people, but it's really frictiony for my use cases.
Also man, does it highlight how piss-poor Microsoft's implementation of HDR in Windows has been. There are barely any games that support it in my library, but the ones that are available work flawlessy and absolutely shine. None of the fiddly "turn it on and cross your fingers" mess from Windows on external displays.
The Ori games look gorgeous on it and they have so much dynamic range they made me notice the floaters in my eye.
@Hanso My experience with Heroic has been somewhere between annoying and outright not functional. Emudeck is a very cool workaround for a problem, and while it's a bit of a pain to set up without a mouse and keyboard, it does work for the basics.
My setup is a bit more complicated and platform agnostic than that, so Emudeck only gets halfway there, and the other half is almost entirely unsupported on the platform.
@Hanso The Deck streamlines playing the basics, but it is noticeably harder and more annoying to use than a Windows handheld on a number of aspects.
It's also better in other ways, for the record, I'm not into platform flame wars. It's just what my experience is for my use case.
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