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I saw there was a somewhat similar post to this, but I'm kind of celebrating the fact that this was the first year I was able to game exclusively on Linux! I'm very thankful for all of the effort from the people involved in all of the aspects of Wine/Proton, it's great to not need to reboot to play games.
We all have it so easy now, that's for sure. It definitely appears you prefer your Deck!
It's more convenient and I can't afford a high end office chair for the desktop. The last few used ones got scooped up even in bad condition. I've tried the car bucket seat type and even have one from a workplace 'boomer execs trying to be hip raffle event', but car seats are generally uncomfortable to begin with.
But yeah the deck is pretty excellent for anything it can maintain a stable frame rate with and I use it even when performance is a bit iffy. I tell anyone considering one that it handles like a wiiu gamepad with better button placements though.
I've definitely recommended it to people, especially when they're just wanting to get into some basic gaming. It's almost console level easy in a lot of cases, and if they want to get more involved in PC games in the future, their game library and everything carries right over.