Valve's Steam Machine delay forced me to DIY, and honestly it's better this way
…Related I turned my gaming handheld into a Steam Deck and I love it You don't need a Steam Deck... do you? Bazzite also comes with Lutris preinstalled, so you can…
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Cost is a major consideration when it comes to handhelds, and to pretend otherwise would be folly. In the aspect of pricing, Steam Deck OLED continues to decisively pull ahead of the competitors, and there's a special reason for this, which I have talked extensively about in the past. Valve has an ability to sell its handhelds at cost because of a structural advantage that no other handheld manufacturer does. Unlike ASUS or Lenovo, Valve isn't primarily in the hardware business. As a storefront operator collecting a commission on every purchase made through Steam, Valve can afford to price har
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The high-end Legion Go 2's price surges to almost $3,000
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FSR 4.1 made older Radeon cards interesting again, but not for the reason AMD wants
…and standalone manufacturers aren't able to ship next-generation devices at sustainable price points. The Steam Deck saw a $240 markup just this week, and other major handhelds are more or…
AMD's handheld driver support is so bad that Linux is starting to look like the better choice
…I opted for GNOME to make it visually different from my Steam Deck, but really, it wouldn't have mattered if I had gone with KDE. And a few other programs supply…
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…Don't believe me? My Steam Deck is PCIe 3.0 all the way through, and it boots just as fast as SteamOS or Bazzite installed on a ROG Ally X, which…
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I put my Steam library on my NAS, and it was both brilliant and stupid
…Take storing Steam games on my NAS, for example. On paper, housing modern titles on a different system hooked up to my home network sounds like a recipe for disaster – one that…
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