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How Valve Made $600,000,000 in a Year | Steam Deck Success Story (www.youtube.com)
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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It's great docked, except for an audio bug in Linux that causes some occasional minor (but annoying and concentration-breaking) static sounds while outputting over HDMI. It comes and goes on its own.

The bug is acknowledged by Valve, and it's (to the best of my understanding) not something specific to the Steam Deck. Supposedly it's being worked on, but no fix yet.

Once fixed, the Deck will be nearly perfect in my eyes.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    I also experience audio dropouts. Not very common, but they do happen.

    There is inherently more "fiddling" with the Deck overall compared to the Switch, which I believe is unavoidable. You aren't playing games designed only to run on one locked down device. You are running games designed to run on PCs of just about any era. Upside, you could be running emulators, games or programs from sources other than Steam, even a Word Processor. Downside, it differs require a little more knowledge and fiddling.

    Having said that, if you stick to game mode and games rated as great on the Steam Deck through Steam, your experience will come very close to the Switch for ease of use, with an arguably larger library.

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