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What's something that has improved your Deck experience?
It's been kinda a slow week as far as Deck news goes, so seems like a good time for a discussion post.
What's something that's significantly improved your deck experience? It can be a hardware accessory, software, decky plugin, etc.
What are you playing on your Deck? - August 2025
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What have you been playing in Steam Next Fest?
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I got the hell outta the US a couple of months ago, and had to ditch my main PC and home server due to shipping costs (kept all my drives, of course). This left me with just a laptop and the Deck -- but, after the laptop's screen kaput, I was left with just a USB-C dock and the deck to get me by! I was worried I'd be walled in a bit by the deck's read-only system, plus my unfamiliarity with Arch (I'm a bit new to the linux game, and have been mostly main-ing Debian distros so far)... but I've been pleasantly surprised at how much is doable, given the constraints! In fact, besides DaVinci Resolve, I don't think there's anything I haven't been able to get running!
It's been a lot of fun configuring the deck's desktop environment to serve as my main machine! Between video editing in Kdenlive, working on documents and code projects for school, and (of course) playing just about every game I'd normally play... this thing is an absolute beast!! For fun and function, I use this thing just
What accessories do you use with your steam deck?
Cases, docks, controller, usb dongles, etc. Anything you use to improve your deck experience that isn't the deck itself.
What are you playing on your deck? - February 2025
Sorry this discussion post is a bit late, I should probably set a reminder for it.
How is your Steam Deck's battery holding up?
You can check battery health in desktop mode, by clicking on the battery.
I've had my OLED deck for a little over a year now, and it's still reporting 100% battery health.
What games are you playing on your deck? - January 2025
Using my Steam deck as a mini PC ?
I've been considering getting a mini PC for my living room, basically only to watch online videos without ads or watch locally stored videos.
Since I have a Steam deck available that I already often dock to my screen for gaming, could I use it instead of buying a new computer?
My main concern is the impact this would have on the battery if it's plugged in for long periods of time, does it bypass the battery when it's plugged in and the battery is full ? Will other components be impacted?
Steam Deck Emulators
Here's a couple of useful info i learned after using emulators for a couple of weeks. This is by far not a tutorial, just things i wish i had known sooner.
This may vary from game to game, but from my experience seems that Yuzu gives better fps. The XCI roms are a bit bigger but don't require any firmware, instead Nsp does, but you can find the Firmware online pretty easily. Some game more demanding will run way better after activating some mods. Just open yuzu>help>Open Mods page and download what you need, the right click (L2) the game and select > Open Mod Data Location and past inside the (unzipped) mod.
Zelda - Breath of the wild is "kinda" playable on Switch but is way better to use the Wii U rom on Cemu (enable the FPS++ mod to fix the fps) - I can't give any link but the site where i find the best rom is "8bitsdown" (google it)
You need some key codes (number and letters) but just google "Wii U keys" and past them in the txt Key file inside th