Valve's popular handheld gaming PC recently passed 14,200 officially rated games, meaning there's never been a better time to own one.

This is just talking about games approved through Valve’s verification process. There are a lot of games that work that are “unverified”, not to mention the entire history of gaming available through emulation.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/21835717

  • jahruhn
    -1•6 months ago

    @gh0stcassette @dustyData the only thing that concerns me is how long they will support the OS. Since they do not allow you to install another Linux distro. If that would even work with their hardware.

    • @[email protected]
      4•6 months ago

      This is false. All of the device drivers for the steam deck hardware are open source and included in the Linux kernel, and you can Literally just boot directly from a live USB and install whatever distro you want, it’s just a very small laptop inside a console shell essentially. I think Valve even worked with Microsoft to get the hardware working correctly under windows because from what I’ve heard, the Steam Deck experience under windows is much better than at launch (I’m not 100% confident on that tho).

      It’s literally just a PC.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•6 months ago

      They don’t allow you to install other OSes?

      The worst thing that Valve has done is “the main kernel tree hasn’t gotten around to merging some of the Deck’s EC bits yet”. You could run Batocera or Bazzite on your deck today if you want. You probably don’t want to, those distros aren’t as good an experience as SteamOS yet.