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give them 7 more years to work out all the bugs
I do agree that there are aspects of the deck where the jank is out of control though.
Across all three of the Steam Decks in my household (Early year 1 LCD, year 2 LCD, and an OLED) we haven't experienced anywhere near the level of problems you've described here, and of the problems we have run into, a fix was typically easy to find. Keep in mind, one of those decks belongs to my non-tech-savvy wife, and the other one belongs to my son, a child. They've enjoyed theirs, but when they do run into a snag I step in and help a bit. I'm not sure if they would feel the same way if I wasn't around.
It does seem to take a little bit more patience to get the most out of it. Not necessarily know-how, just patience. The patience to read and research, to follow guides and troubleshoot and to apply easy fixes to known problems if/when the arise. I feel like once you get it running smoothly and where you want it, it does a great job of staying there.
Do you have the 64 GB model? That's one legitimate criticism I have about the Deck. That's just not enough. It wasn't enough when it came out in 2022, and it's especially not enough today. I'm glad they retired the 64 GB model and made the minimum spec have 256 GB. The first one I bought was a 64 GB, and the first thing I did was tear that drive out and install a 1 TB drive. I put a 2 TB in my OLED.
Maybe it's just not the right device for you in particular. You may be better served with something else.
We're enjoying the crap out of ours over here though.
The people who fanboy over this device should agree its SUPER Buggy Software Wise.
I literally cannot Navigate the UI using the Built In Controller, I have to navigate the UI using the Touchscreen, Which is ALSO mostly broken.
The Internal Controller randomly and somehow disconnects during Gameplay. Also Bluetooth: It NEVER works properly, I can’t pair my Dualshock 3 anymore and it always Disconnects Devices during use: So many times during Local Multiplayer games other players get an advantage because one controller decides to disconnect because the Steam Deck doesn’t like them apparently
I find it too heavy too but im not willing to sacrifice anything maybe trying different things or for them to introduce a lite model.
Either sarcasm at every caveat (trolls gotta troll), or too young to be in possession of your own steam account?
The deck isn't even the most expensive console I've bought in the last 5 years.
Nearly every piece of exercise equipment I own is more expensive than my deck. And the deck is outperforming my 4 year old laptop which barely has as much value as the deck does, and was 3x the cost.
There Are No Fan Boys With The STEAM Deck...
There Is Only 2 Types Of People Here:
-- Those Who Refuse To Buy The STEAM Deck
-- & Those Who Have This Infuriating Experience With STEAM Deck
I Don't Really See Where The STEAM Deck Fandom Is,
Especially When Many Of You Have Stated It Is An
Expensive Purchase You've Made That Hasn't Been
Met With Anything, But You Storing It In A Closet...
If That Is Everyone's Mentality Here??
And That Bugs Haven't Been Getting Fixed At All Since Launch??
I Just Have 1 Question To Ask:
What Did You Expect Out Of The Last 8 Years??
Some Fascinating Experience With Good Games,
During An Entire Decade Where Gaming Is At It's Worst??
I Mean, What Did People Expect Here??
What Did People Expect To Get Out Of The STEAM Deck??
Just Be Honest, You Paid Too Much For Hardware
That Was Never Intended To Work...
& You Bought The Hype, & Were Lied To In The End...
The controls are terrible and to make it worse controller templates break constantly so you have to restore the entire device to get community templates to apply, they continue ignoring the issue because it mainly affects people that play non steam games.
Just gross behaviour
Valid complaint.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a03ebf116303e5d13ba9a2b65726b106cb1e96f6
Btw, it seems like AMD and Valve are getting a handle on the worst freezing bug on the steam deck.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/3440#note_2461511
I believe they will fix it by next year.