Yes get oled version

Even if you don’t leave the house much it’s still nice to be able to play games wherever and not be stuck to one place not to mention you can use it going to family get togethers or other things like that plus it’s easy to pick up and put down games to play them or go from a safe to file on your computer to playing it on the deck and picking up where you left off

How would a steam deck help you? Do you know where/when you would play on it?

It’s a simple value proposition, steam deck is great, but if there currently isn’t a hole for it to fill, the money would be better spent on steam gift cards for more games to play

I’m not 14, but it still depends on what you play. Playing games from bed, couch, toilet, garden - it’s fun.

I saw that you’re looking for used LCD, check out valve refurbished prices too. Any used price you pay should be lower than that IMHO. The prices right now tanked for LCD models, so if you’re on budget there was never better moment to get LCD model.

Now, if you play online multiplayer games mostly you might be disappointed - especially if the anticheat doesn’t work on linux.

Indies? 100% instant buy.

Newest AAA games? Those might not run and/or look well enough to play them on SD, when you can get them looking beautifully on decent gaming pc. You can stream to your steam deck, which is still pretty good experience, but some people hate streaming too much.

Older AAA games? Up to PS4 era everything should run pretty decently on SD, with pretty decent look and visuals. That’s a point where you probably won’t feel that you’re sacrificing too much. There are exceptions, for example Uncharted 4, while in theory PS4 game, for me didn’t look good enough on SD with fluid settings. But something like Horizon Zero Dawn, for example, worked fine.

You can use page called protondb and amother steamdeckhq to look up how well games work on Steam Deck before you even buy. There are also dozens of videos showing off games on youtube. Just note, that some games might run a little better now than on reports/youtube, since recent steamOS update improved some stuff on software side.

Overall, you also should be able to resell this used SD with not much value loss (if any) if you don’t like it, since you’re going to buy it pretty cheap anyway. So the risk is low anyway.

It’s a paradigm shift in the way that you do video gaming. I have a kick-ass top of the line gaming desktop 20 ft from my couch. If I wanted to? I could be playing top tier AAA games at 120 FPS.

At the end of the day? I want to sit on my couch, flip the TV on and play OverWatch 2 in 800p.

It is bliss.

Playing handheld is a totally different experience, it’s like playing a completely different game almost. As long as the game isn’t too demanding you’ll have fun & remote any games that run sluggish

my use case is that i’m 30, working at home as a backend, deck and ally really helps me goin through my backlog since i work 10+ hours sitting on a laptop, at that point i already hate sitting and prefer laying on bed and playing with my deck / ally,basically game-wise

laptop = genshin, honkai,tof,snowbreak, fortnite
deck = steam games single player (atelier ryza, ffxv, disney, etc)
ally = non steam games that are shit(hassle to install) on deck (AC, KH, etc)

Perfect time to buy used and well worth it