How did it ever get onto a stove top? I’ve cooked with my steam deck nearby but I’ve never had it anywhere near a stove top.

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Lol facts

If you have controllers connected in anyway they can cause the steam deck to turn on temporarily. But I’ve never heard of a steam deck refusing to go to sleep entirely.

The stable update to 3.5.5 included some driver updates that probably increased performance. They also changed a lot of stuff with the screen and colour management. What you’ve noticed was valves hard work over the past month or so come together in the best update in months.

TL;DR IMO buy the OLED.

Generally speaking all of the windows handhelds have MANY reliability issues, for some they work just fine and for many they barely work at all or have recurring issues that bog down the experience. Or you might even get really unlucky with defective models (a common issue with the ROG Ally).

So if you want something as refined as PC handhelds get, the steam deck is your best option. But if you want an alternative the Legion GO is currently the best of these deck competitors; it’s the only competition to have a better screen than the OLED deck in terms of colour accuracy anyway. It also has the same battery capacity, tho it will have much worse battery life than the steam deck (especially the OLED).

For me I would go with the OLED because of the many quality of life features that it has that simply don’t exist on alternatives yet, not to mention steam is being designed best for the steam deck. The OLED is also really inexpensive on the 512GB model, not to mention third party SSD’s can go up to 2tb, or for 1tb they can be cheaper than buying a 1tb model. I am a long term deck user so I am very biased, and I’m especially biased since I’ve never used any other PC handhelds. So take my words with a heap of salt.

Plug and Play.

If you run Linux on your main PC you can even set it up so that you can play off the SD cards, but it’s a bit more fiddly and requires input to do so unlike the steam deck.

Did you try turning it on and off?