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The Steam Deck's budget price tag is the reason I still rate it nearly two years on
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this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2023
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My laptop's SSD died a while back, so I sent it away for repairs (yay, MSI's warranty).
In that brief period without a PC, my Steam Deck was a god send - used it as my main machine for 4 days. Was even able to work on it.
That's such a crazy addition to the value proposition, for me - totally makes it worth it.
Also, being able to play PS5 games in bed via Chiaki is delicious.
I mean, that makes sense, because its just running (a slightly restricted) version Linux of under the hood, which I is what I run on my gaming and work pc
It's an immutable version of stripped Arch, dunno if that counts as 'slightly restricted'. You can disable the read-only mode if you want to and know what you're doing.
That's why I said slightly, for the average user you can't do quite as much
I mean for average console user, you can do a whole lot. Even for your average Windows user.
And if you drive Linux... I'm not sure why you couldn't handle SteamOS?
I can, what I am saying is the way the steamos is built, its a bit harder for new users to do more advanced stuff, not that its that limited. I so admit I could've phrased IT better though
Yeah but it's still a hand held, that kind of power isn't expected.
Chiaki doesn't get enough credit.
How is your latency on Chiaki?
I have pretty decent home wifi and honestly...
It's just not a great experience.
Although tbf I installed it once on a macbook and the experience was not great. Didn't do hardly any finagling to improve latency
The latency is so low I don't notice it at all. Weird that you're having problems.
My ps5 is hooked up to the router via an ethernet cable, and I use a 5 Ghz network to play on. Never had any issues and never required any tweaking (played most of Jedi: Survivor with this setup).