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!

  • Valkhir@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I feel like I kind of fall into this category too, or at least close.

    The last time I had a well-specced PC I used for gaming was back in the late 90s/early 2000s (though I would say that back then there was less difference between “a good PC” and a “gaming PC” than there seems to be these days.

    But I haven’t had one in nearly 2 decades, have zero knowledge of the current state of the art, know relatively little about Windows (and mostly dislike what I know, after being very much a Linux/Unix person since 2009-ish), and didn’t own more than maybe a dozen Steam games before I got my Deck (now I have over 200).

    I did own two other gaming handhelds before the Steam Deck, but one of them I almost exclusively used for emulation and the other was just a stop gap while waiting until I could get a Steam Deck (not initially available in my region).

    Also, like you I had a Switch before the Deck, but got frustrated at the limited choice of games. Though I will forever be grateful to that Switch for getting me back into gaming after a long hiatus.