It is not nearly so smooth and reliable as consoles like the Switch. On occasion, it outputs to the wrong audio device, or doesn’t pick up a controller. But, those are infrequent issues and I usually put up with them.

The Deck isn’t great for high-fidelity games on 1080p, but I’m okay with that since it wasn’t made for them. For docking, I like having it to play the many indie games where that’s not a strong requirement.