the steam deck always wins.

no other gaming handheld comes close.

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[ZaberfangX]

I remember a lot said the ally will kill off the steam deck for being to slow and runs linux, ally was not overly bad. Its Just steam deck did a lot right for people to still buying it even this day.

[CarloCoronado]

I was gifted a steam deck by a good friend of mine and I was glad because it is the perfect handheld for my personal gaming needs.

The Steam community alone is worth the cost of getting the Deck because they have helped me run any and every title I threw at it.

[nationharris]

I just wish it worked better with anti cheat systems

[KnightMD]

Suspend/Resume is essential to any handheld, period. No instant reliable suspend/resume, no deal. This is why Steam Deck is still the ONLY handheld gaming option worth of anyone's money.

[rml]

As a steam deck owner with a visual impairment, I’m actually on the opposite side of things. The magnifier that the steam deck provides is not enough for many people’s needs. There is no speech output whatsoever, especially not built-in, and not in gaming mode at all. If you need any kind of assistive technology, I would highly recommend going with a Windows based device. I think that valve could fix a lot of this by switching from KDE to gnome, and porting over the accessibility features from the gnome project into the game mode itself, especially since the games themselves have accessibility features, but until they do that… I’m going to have to say that it’s best to stick with windows if you need any kind of assistive technology use. We also need a high contrast theme, some of the items being grey on grey or are too small make vital info hard to read.

[therealruru]

The steam deck is not the best pc handheld right now, but steam os is by far the best handheld operating system. Installing steam os on something like the rog ally gives the performance of the more powerful handhelds with all the benefits of the steam decks ui

[marksapollo]

Love the Deck OLED, it’s the interface that does it, so easy to use and to mod, easily able to get into the desktop to install any extra things. It just needs more power, which we’ll get with the sequel, and better support for anti cheat, which is down to devs.

[ChazTyldsley]

Sold my Deck LCD for the Ally when it launched and it is a great bit of kit. It's the best windows handheld by a margin. But wanted the Deck back in my collection mainly for collector's purposes, ended up picking up an OLED 1TB Deck refurbished and it's pretty blissful to use. I do miss Game Pass on the device but I've been loving it these past few months - a much better bit of kit than the LCD OG model in so many ways, just feels much more refined. Still love my Ally but find myself grabbing the Deck instead because it just works.

Rumours of a Steam console have me seeing a future where the Deck + Steam Console provide my main gaming setup.

[oliverdowning]

I think that Bazzite is also a very good option for a lot of people as well

[onetwothreefourfive]

Would it be weird to buy one of these just because I want to be more comfortable why playing PC games? I feel uncomfortable playing at a desk with my noisy PC.

[GunzyFPS]

Honestly for me it's the ergonomics. I owned a Lenovo Legion and hated the form factor. The Steam Decks curves, button/stick layout, and trackpads are literally perfect in my eyes. Got Heroic running on it for my Epic/GOG games and it works perfectly.

[joshmas]

Rog ally x with bazzite and windows dualboot really cant be beat at the present

[Pollywaggle]

I’m a little on the fence about the steam deck. I love the idea and I travel a good bit for work. (Typing this in a hotel room) it feels like the steam deck is what I wanted my switch to be. The switch isn’t powerful enough to have an enjoyable experience in most games to me.

[Wimmle]

The steamdeck is a console.
Thanks to deckyloader my steamdeck sounds & acts like a pipboy.

[DeathJerrie]

You're right, the community behind the Steam Deck is a big plus. I've done a lot of things with the Deck and Linux now. I was a total noob and would've been completely stumped if not for all the people helping and creating guides. I think, short of windows anti cheat games, there is nothing the Steam Deck can not run. It impressed me time and time again. To be honest, I thought about "upgrading" to an Ally X, but after getting used to all the inputs the Steam Deck has (four back buttons, the trackpads, all programable via steam input), I no longer see the other options on the market as an upgrade. The Steam Deck is still amazing.

[Pieteros]

I thought the same and wanted steamdeck OLED but for me prices don't make sense both new and used . I bought used rog ally for about 300usd with about year of warranty and installed bazzite on it (steam od equivalent, hope for official steamOS soon ) because windows was unbearable at this form factor and without proper sleep mode . I know ROG ally is not perfect but it's almost half the price of steam deck OLED in my region and bazzite fix it's windows problem .

[jobennn]

What game are you playing at 5:55 ? Looks dope

[damiandamian]

I’ve had the steam deck oled for a year since it came out and I absolutely love it. I recently picked up a rog ally x and had it for 5 days and returned that junk. I spent more time in the settings page and troubleshooting then actually gaming.

[antsheeran]

Having owned, steam deck oled, rog ally x, legion go sold the latter two, they are more powerful no doubt but steam deck is far more user friendly, I just kept my stram deck and couldn't be happier

[Instant_Nerf]

Nope, altho it’s close the ally rog x took the cake for me. Just not powerful enough for my needs. The deck needs a hardware upgrade, like yesterday.