The Official Steam Deck Thread

[Chazore]

farlaff said:

I'm going to weigh in here and give you my honest 2 cents: first, it seems to be way too early to expect a good windows experience on a device that has just come around promising something totally different. And, at least for me, the most important is, we finally get a chance to "outwindows" the PC world in a potential popular device. Why should we insist on windows? Especially when the Deck was meant to sell steam games, first and foremost. At this point in time, I would not even offer windows drivers to consumers if I were Valve, because you are prone to bad exposal such as it happened in Linus's video (and he has to sound fatalist otherwise less clicks), but they went on and did it anyway. I'm not being critical of your positioning, because you are entitled to your liking, but I myself would love to have one right now to experience the gaming possibilities it can offer on SteamOS, and Linus for that matter (and this another thing, since afaik you can use Linux to have a PC experience on it; just not the windows one). Not to mention how good it can be for us, as consumers, to have the developers actually worried about proper optimization of PC games for not so powerful devices, which is just another win in my book.

So, if I were close to you, I'd offer to buy yours. ;)

See this is why I dislike most of what Linus does these days. The dude has stopped being all about in depth technical info, in favour of short cut videos on semi building PC's (and breaking them along the way, because that's Linus) and his biggest pitfall is him focusing more on getting those clicks and baity thumbnails.

Also doesn't help that the guy puts a lot of focus on "let's push this device/OS to breaking point and then bitch about why it's not as great as my already inflated expectations". I hate how he does this and hardly learns, because he expects everything to run near flawlessly out of the box, or for a specific company vendor to pander to his specific nit-picky issues, and when they don't, he goes and makes that a thing in his videos (like the focus on Deck and Windows drivers for example). 

I've since moved over to Jaystwocents and Gn, because those two seem to be more grounded and a little less baity than Linus (as well as not putting stupid insane focus on 8k this or completely overclock that).