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.
@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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