u/noxypaws — Noxy

Yes. I love mine. Wouldn't have anything else at this point.

Even better with KDE Connect to remotely control it via a smartphone!

briefly played some Caves of Qud on mine while HVAC tech was here doing regular maintenance.

I almost exclusively play Qud with a keyboard (vim style key bindings) but they did a decent job at adapting controls to the Deck, albeit with some memorization required

Well that was dumb. But their handling of the fallout means I can point and laugh but also not feel any hesitation to buy other stuff from them if they release stuff I want.

Their whole Ghost case debacle, which I *did* buy into, was similarly handled well, I've been happy with the free replacement I got from them for that and it's been working great for a few years now.

Dumbasses. But refunding and owning up is commendable, at least it seems to be from how they've framed it all.

Ah, yeah, good points. I imagine even just getting their wireless controller receiver working would be quite a lot of reverse engineering

PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series are all x86_64, though, unless I'm misunderstanding?

they put all the juicy details at the beginning of the video. watch the first 30 seconds at least.

You clearly didn't watch the video. If you had, you'd change your tune, it's an outstanding review.

Awesome! Not that I'm opposed to learning how to solder, but not needing to when my Deck's sticks start to drift is a relief

does it require soldering for the thumb presence sensors?

I do a lot of couch gaming. I do have a wired lapboard for keyboard and mouse but it's nice relaxing with a gamepad too

From what I'm reading they are not independent buttons though. They can only be copies of other buttons. Utterly useless.

L4/R4: slow down or speedup time

R5: move screen faster, also hold down to select multiple

L5: something to do with the touchscreen but I don't use it

and I say yes, without caveats.

Yeah! I use mine as a media device sometimes. With the first party dock. And with KDE Connect on my phone already since I use KDE on both my work and personal machines, adding the Steam Deck to that works so incredibly well for remote input

Totally stock controls, dozens of hours. Works really really well!

Seconded, never had any issue with the elastic strap holding in the power supply.

I have an original Steam Controller as well. The Steam Deck is a lot better in my opinion because I can choose between thumbstick or thumbpad on each side, whereas with the old controller you have to live with the touchpads and the single stick on the right.

The build quality feels a bit better too, and the haptics a bit more refined.

Really, the Deck offers everything the Controller did aside from form factor. And maybe if some folks vastly prefer the bigger touchpads, that might possibly be a downside, but I doubt that'd be the case for most

Nope! Both the Xbox Elite and Dualsense Edge controllers don't add new buttons, they just add buttons that can only be copies of the regular Xbox/Playstation buttons.

Steam Deck does it better since the four back buttons can be used as completely independent buttons.

I've heard that the 8BitDo Ultimate 2 controller also can use its extra buttons as net new buttons, and I've been tempted to get one for that reason (and because I really liked the Ultimate "1" I had before my dog chewed it up!)

Your touchpad issue may be a fluke, both the steam decks in my house (one original, one OLED) still work great with both trackpada

I use the touchpads constantly, mostly for Rimworld, but also desktop usage and other games, and I find them to be outstanding