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It's great. We use family sharing, and everything is available.

The only thing to look out for is that because it's so easy to suspend games by just turning off the screen, I sometimes have to go: Who was playing stardew valley, and did you save?

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Yea, I saw it on a 'best of the year' list and had never heard of it before then. I'm glad they had a demo, because it hooked me.

Playing Absolum. I'm pretty bad at it, but I'm having fun.

I kind of remember that being an issue way back when the Steam Deck launched. Ever since I always launch games after docking. Bummer to hear it's still an issue.

Interesting. I do have issues with the stream freezing, and I will have to test if this helps with that. I haven't used Decky Loader yet, but I guess I found my reason to try it!

Well, there's an app called DeckSettings that signs badges based on community reports, but they don't always have reports for games in interested in. Still, it's good to have, and it'll grow

Edit: actually the badges are from ProtonDB, which aren't as useful. E.g. Avowed has a gold badge, but if you read the comments for steam deck, they're basically all negative.

Same with Avowed. It's such a blurry mess, I don't see how anyone can play it on the deck. It does make me question every game now, even when it says verified.

Still, there are tons of games that look and play amazing on it.

My wife will only play it on the deck because of this.

I voted for Ball x Pitt. Love that game.

Same. I'm obsessed with it. I just unlocked the last character. This game is so fun.

I just got a 2nd LCD during the sale. Unfortunately it was broken and I'm still waiting on a replacement. With any luck they'll send me an OLED one instead 😜

Edit: just got the shipping confirmation, so no luck. Also, not getting it until the 29th. 23 days from reporting the issue to getting a replacement 🤬

Got the Deck at launch. No issues with drift.

The Gunk. I played through it on game pass a few years ago. I was just telling someone about it and then saw that it was only like $3 on Steam, so I bought it. It's so pretty, and looks great on the deck. I love the voice work, too. And cleaning up the gunk feels so therapeutic right now.

Not sure about diving in... More like dipping their toes.

I think it's great that they're making windows more usable on different types of devices. To be honest though, all of this sounds like Windows 8, especially the bit about limiting background processes. People were pissed about it then, but I guess maybe now they'll like it if it makes gaming better (and really, it probably makes everything better. There are so many background processes on my PC, it's ridiculous).

I'd like to see a Microsoft branded handheld. I'm curious if it would be Xbox or Surface branded....

Eh, my company got that same email from Unity about using personal licenses for production. A simple email reply of: "No, we're not" did the trick. I wouldn't get too worried about this.

You can turn on wake on LAN.

Then to unlock it, use the button on the right with the 3 dots and choose the option to bring up the keyboard, so that you can enter your pin or password.

One issue is with video freezing. The sound will keep going, but the video is stuck and the only thing I can do is kill and restart the game.

The other issue is with my lock screen. It's very hit or miss if I can unlock it from the deck, and sometimes it then picks the wrong monitor to display the game on. Since my 2nd monitor is vertical, that creates a mess of a vertical stream with the game half cut off, and half an empty desktop displaying.

Oblivion Remastered. Playing via Remote Play, which has given me a decent amount of issues, but when it's working, it's great. The game looks gorgeous and has been a ton of fun to play, although I'm having a surprisingly hard time finding side quests. I seem to remember there being more than one or two per town. But whatever, I can always go find a cave, be stealthy and snipe things.

Played the Solasta 2 demo, and still playing Dragon Age Inquisition

I have a silicone case on it, but only because my kids started using it.

I also have a dock hooked up to the TV, but I never use it.