✧✦Catherine✦✧so i got a steam deck (i wanted one for a while & the threat of them running out of DRAM because of AI demand is looming)
it's... it's really nice. someone actually gave a shit while designing this PC hardware and software. rare and pleasant
R@whitequark the software stack has some amount of Gamer Jank (especially if you want to actually play games), but the bulk of the advantage seems to come directly from "not being gratuitously dgaf terrible"
@r yeah this is like most of what was driving my decisions. i don't even know if i'll like the form factor! but if i don't, it's put together well enough that i should have zero issues reselling it
@whitequark fwiw we quite like it, but we also think the form factor is being *very* underutilized (as far as we understand it, due to limitations of the Gamer™️ middleware ecosystem)
notably: trackpad ~= mouse, *not* thumbsticks! (this *used* to be a huge part of valve marketing materials, but they've been repeating it less and less)
we're also a heavy user of "flick stick + gyro", but that one might be divisive
on the "platform" level, it's a rare x86 device that supports USB DRD, if you enjoy cursedness (also top example of giving a shit: all the kernel support is enabled and shipped even though this function isn't used by the rest of the software stack)