u/uniquethrowagay

If you're using it like an Xbox controller, it doesn't matter which one you buy. Steam Controller is about all the inputs that Xbox (or others) don't have, such as trackpads, touch sensitive sticks and gyroscope.

This combination is unique on the market and I wouldn't play most games with a controller without. Especially first person games.

The trackpads are amazing, actually. It's fine to not like them. In that case, get a cheaper controller and have fun! 100€ is very expensive, but there is no other product out there that offers what Steam Controller does. Also, touch enabled gyro (be it the sticks or trackpads) is a complete game changer for me.

I just enjoy games more on my Deck. The controller is by *far* my favourite, I can resume where I left in a second, I can take it everywhere, the OS is completely out of the way unless I need it.

I have a reasonably powerful gaming PC but haven't really used it in the past few years because of Steam Deck.

So long as it runs at a stable 30 FPS I can tolerate the limited performance.

I understand the sentiment though.

I can't and won't play any first person perspective game with a regular controller. Track pad + gyro is so much fun! It love to at least see capacitive touch sticks + gyro adopted by other manufacturers.

Look at the desaster that is Flamanville 3, for instance.

The cour de comptes is pretty clear about it, too:

https://www.ccomptes.fr/sites/default/files/2025-01/20250114-La-filiere-EPR%20-une-dynamique-nouvelle-des-risques-persistants_0.pdf

I agree that coal is important to phase out, even moreso than nuclear power. Germany was wrong to leave nuclear before coal.

But building new reactors is an utter waste of time and money.

I can say that because we neither have the time nor the money to sink it into nuclear plants. We have green tech. It's cheap, we're building capacity like crazy.

Even China builds more renewable than nuclear. And I'd rather not look at authoritarian dictatorships for tips on how to handle building regulations.

Power to gas, water pumps, heat storage and battery storage are viable alternatives. There are many days already where we over produce green energy. Why sink hundreds of billions into nuclear plants when we could use the energy we already produce instead?

Nuclear power is all but efficient.

No. Take a good look at France and their nuclear strategy. Both maintaining old reactors and building new ones is extremely costly. Building times are to be measured in decades. Nuclear power is not economically viable nor is it a solution to the climate catastrophe.

Returning to nuclear power in Germany is nothing but a pointless waste of tax money.

How is an atomic distro more powerful and customizable? Also, SteamOS is also atomic.

I remember seeing the Steam Deck and thinking "the button placement is really weird, none of this looks comfortable". Then when I took it in my hands for the first time, everything made sense.

I'm pretty surprised nobody seems to like the Deck's touchpads. Yes they're a bit of a compromise, but I have been playing hundreds of hours using the right trackpad for camera control on my Deck and they're pretty great. Maybe my hands are weird.