If looking from top left to right my favourites are 3,4 and 6.

This depends on where you bought it. If on Steam, you just download it directly from Steam.

If on GOG, I do believe you will need Heroic launcher to actually be able to download the game to your Steam Deck.

I can’t say that this wouldn’t help in some extreme buggy scenarios where the battery mgmt is not able to report / read the current actual battery status, but it would be the last thing I would try and do to resolve such issues.

EDIT: reading through the comments in the thread you linked, even OP recognizes that it did pretty much nothing but corrected a visual bug on the % of battery available.

Under no circumatances should you do that to a Lithium battery. That’s a relic from NiMH battery era and was done for specific reasons you can find online.

Fully draining your Lithium battery will shorten its lifespan. Many new devices have a way to even limit the max charge and keep the battery in the optimal 60-80% range.

I was dual booting Windows / Linux on the same drive on my laptop for a while (before I got a separate drive for each of them), Steam Deck should be no different.

Good news is that it pretty much works flawlesly. Bad news is that Windows really liked to mess up Grub after almost each update. It requiring to manually reinstall / reconfigure it.

That was pretty much it from what I remember.

KDE + Latte dock is what I use. Very simple and minimalistic setup with no widgets.

Reminds me of clear PSX controllers, really nice sort of a retro look

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0074/6343/6401/products/57_51dc64af-5316-48c1-b820-f299ab8c00b9.png?v=1654762499

Without spoiling anything, the atmosphere can get tense but it’s never a cheap jump scare type of thing. You’ll pretty much be more appreciative of all the “horror” details than you will be scared.

It’s so worth it, one of those games that sticks with you long after you’ve finished it.

Both ToME and Caves of Qud are amazing games. You can get ToME for free off the official website

https://te4.org/

look into some of the community made controller templates, as there are a lot of keybinds to cover it could be easier to use a template as a starting point.

Both ToME and Caves of Qud are amazing games. You can get ToME for free off the official website

https://te4.org/

look into some of the community made controller templates, as there are a lot of keybinds to cover it could be easier to use a template as a starting point.

Steam Deck using Linux puts it above anything else in the handheld category. It’s truly a device you yourself can do anything with, with no limitations or hard locks.

Not to mention the sw and hw support which both are excellent.

Realising that there is absolutely no way for me to, for instance, make a local backup of saves / settings, not even a way to access them on my Switch is a very sobering experience.

What’s not to like about a device sporting a 5 year old CPU paired with a 720p display and 4GB of RAM costing 2.2k usd?

I have both, got a Steam Deck a week ago. It’s a beast compared to Switch.

Feels like a much more quality device and with it being so open you can do anything you like on the software side, plus some of the HW seems much easier to replace / repair.

If I had to choose between a Steam Deck and Switch now, I’d go with Steam Deck without a second thought. You can even emulate all of Switch’s catalogue on the SD.

SOMA is one of those games I wish I could forget and play again for the very first time.

I got FF XII and Golden Krone Hotel in the end (so far?).

I’ve already played a bit of XII on my switch as I got a new physical copy dirt cheap and enjoyed the game.

ATS and ETS are such chill games. Nothing but endless roads and your foot on the pedal.

How’s Stellaris like on the steam deck? I have the game, but haven’t tried it on the deck yet.

It takes two is a phenomenal co-op experience. We did a couple of runs and enjoy the whole thing each time.

I got the 64GB just recently and with a 512GB SD card I’ve put off upgrading the internal SSD for now.

The swap is really easy for anyone that’s ever tinkered with any pc hardware.

I’d say the 64GB version is absolutely the best choice.

Avoid Manjaro and use something like Endeavour OS if you want an Arch based distro.

I’ve used Manjaro in the past and had tons of issues with it. The distro itself is Arch based but does not follow the same update philosophy.

Updates are stalled to apparently test for any potential conflicts, except it seems that they do not do any testing at all and just hold back on updates and cause more issues by doing that (ie package dependancy lagging behind)

Not to mention all the drama and shady stuff that was and is going on with Manjaro, I would not recommend that distro to anyone.

I’ve also used Mint, Kubunutu, Pop… and even Garuda on various desktops and laptops and never run into any game braking issues upon initial installation.