Just got mine last night – what a night and day difference between the 4 month wait from the first time (and I think I got very lucky last time, putting in a late order and getting a pretty good turn-around). Overall, this is an incredible handheld. I have zero desire to even test the Rog Ally or Lenovo Legion Go. It looks great, runs the games I want well and is just simplicity personified when it comes to getting things up and running.
Still, it is not quite perfect.
I gave my old Steam Deck to my child, I’d never used Steam Family Sharing. Boy, does it suck conceptually - but I don’t think I can blame the steam deck for this, so I won’t harp on it.
One flaw that is becoming very clear to me in these first hours – the Steam Deck still won’t download while off. This is too bad, it’s taking forever to re-download my massive library, one I can pretty much keep on the deck w/ the more generous 1TB space afforded with this version.
Anyone else have any nitpicking?
Go to Desktop, disable sleep, open a 100% black picture so all the pixels are off … then go to bed?
Not even necessary. The default settings in desktop mode will dim and then shut off the screen. Once downloads finish, the Deck will sleep.
Hmmm didn’t work for me last night. Perhaps something happened.