Edit: I meant to say a GAMING PC in the title

I feel like im in such the minority here, which isn’t bad. I’ve never had a “gaming” PC. I saved up and bought a MacBook laptop for college years ago. The only time I would game on a PC would have been coolmath.com back in the computer lab days. I’ve been a console boy my whole life. I play on PS only, but wanted something to emulate old games and play some AAA titles portablely. I picked up a Switch OLED about 7 months ago, but between the high cost of nearly all games and how restrictive it feels, I wanted more.

All of this is so foreign to me. I’ve played emulators on my phone before, but that’s about my extent of knowledge. Getting a SD and seeing things mentioned like “Proton” and “TDP” sounds like a foreign language to me, lol.

I’m learning, slowly. I’ve got Emudeck installed and I’ve got a decent understand of Desktop mode. I’m not even 30 but I sound like an old man. How many of you are like me? I’ve learned many things only due to owning a Steam Deck!

  • Velocity_Rob@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I have two Steam Decks and I don’t have a gaming PC.

    My last gaming PC had a 980 and when it was time to upgrade, graphics cards were going for the price of a small second-hand car.

    I was happy enough with my Series X until the Steam Deck came along. Now I think it’s honestly the best gaming device since the original PlayStation. It helps that with three kids, it fits into my life perfectly but Valve have really changed the game with the Deck.

  • ImpossibleMinimum424@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Not never (I had a PC in the early 2000s) but not for a long time. The SD enabled me to play a lot of games and catch up without having to invest in an unwieldy and expensive machine.

  • persepolisrising79@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    i do have a like…6 years old “gaming pc” shortly before covid i was planning on a major update but the hardware prices where ridicilous. So i opted for the deck instead. My “gaming pc aka the glorified potato” i only use for RTS game and the occasional team based shooter. everyhing else i use the deck for. Got sevral larger screens at home so no biggie. Love the thing

  • GMan88@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I have a gaming PC with a 3080.

    I wont use it ever again tho… lol

  • BenMc19@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m a 37 year old raised on consoles. Never had a PC. I use ChromeOS at work, so never use Windows. Actually sold my Xbox, bought a Steam Deck, and created my Steam account.

    Only gaming machines in my house now are the Switches for the kids, and the Steam Deck for me. I’ve toyed with the idea of trying to build a PC now that I have PC games, but then I realized why build a PC when I’m just going to keep playing handheld in the recliner.

  • DebateNo8443@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    me. macbook pro and steam deck.

    im kind of person never wanted a proper gaming pc setup. too clunky, too expensive.

    thats why i really love my steam deck.

  • fortnite@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I have a gaming pc but for most major games, I’m glad that they can be played now for a much more reasonable price. Also if someone really wanted to they could get a dock and plug in a monitor, keyboard, etc and use it like a desktop when not carrying it around.

  • AdvertisingEastern34@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’ve been doing PC gaming for my whole life (I am also almost 29 yo, so under 30) on Windows desktops or laptops (gaming ones). Never had a console in my life except the ps2 when i was a kid (my brother’s ps2). But I can assure you I had to learn quite much of stuff anyway since Linux PCs are quite different. This said if you’re new to PC gaming you can just buy everything on Steam and you’re good to go. Instead I have bunch of stuff on other launchers (because on Windows I don’t mind) and I had to go through some youtube guides to get them working nicely on the Deck. But once it’s done once it’s done forever! so I can now keep staying in gaming mode except if I want to install some more games from battle.net or Ubisoft (with Epic, GOG and Amazon I can use Heroic directly from gaming mode). But I installed some and I will be good for a while

  • TanguayX@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I own quite a few computers for work, but the SD is the first game machine I’ve owned. No gaming on any of my ‘real’ machines.