I am in the same boat, sold my desktop when my kids were born and switched to a gaming laptop. Now my gaming laptop GPU is dying (crashing with artifacting in game) so my steam deck is my main gaming rig. Honestly with the limited amount of time I have to game it works flawlessly. I snagged some of the Hall effect replacement sticks and a 1 tb ssd upgrade as well as a new shell which I will be installing this weekend. Portable gaming computers are the future IMHO and I hope they gain enough traction to force developers to focus on optimization vs pretty graphics covering shitty programming in a game.
Same, I had to RMA my motherboard, so my deck has been my tower, lol
I’ve wanted a steam deck for a long time and the OLED made me finally do it. It is such a great device and worth every penny.
Same here! It’s been ages since I bought a gaming PC or console, and Steam Deck gives me PC gaming and portability at an affordable price without the time involved to build my own.
I’ve managed to not kill mine by running VR using ALVR. It has worked surprisingly well, that is if you can handle the lower resolution and occasional frame drops and stutters. Except the recent SteamVR updates messed up ALVR so I had to use the temp_1.25.4 (or whatever it was) beta branch. It did work with 2.1.5 for a bit with Steam-Play-None, but then when 2.1.8 was released it was messed up again so back to the temp branch. :P
Yeah, I play mostly on SD too, and backup have gaming laptop for some strategy games and in case i need some tinkering and i will sell gaming rig bcs i dont use it almost at all.