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What do you game on? (links.wageoffsite.com)

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What does your battlestation look like? PS4/5, XBox, PC or some oddball Chinese retro handheld?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Steam Deck.

I've never owned a decent gaming machine, for various reasons. Cost was a big factor. Another was the fact that I was never a big "gamer". Very little desire to play the big, popular, AAA games in general. The games I did play, I played on a very old PC, and the performance was what you'd expect from low end hardware; but I just never had any desire to build my own gaming rig.

The Steam Deck is perfect for my use case:

I have no desire to run Windows
I have no desire to build my own gaming machine
I have no desire to get locked into a console ecosystem (Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, etc).
I can play handled, docked to a monitor with keyboard and mouse, docked to a monitor with a controller, docked to a TV, etc etc
I can play games built for Windows
I can play games with native Linux builds
I can play Steam games, Epic games, DRM-free games, emulated games, etc, etc
I can do whatever the hell else I want to do with it. For example, maybe I might want to run Kodi on it, and connect to my Jellyfin server at home to watch a movie if I'm staying at a hotel. Whatever. It's just a computer like any other. I can do whatever I want.

I think I've probably played more new (to me) games since buying my SD than in all the years (decades) previous, and I love it.