Hi there! I don’t own a handheld yet, and therefore I don’t really know what I would miss buying a steamdeck. I’m eyeballing the OLED and I think I might get it.

So are there any big downsides to not having windows that you have experienced?

I know there’s workarounds to get windows if I want it, but do I really need it?

Thanks!

  • sunrainsky@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    You need to have a use case for windows.

    For me, I like having microsoft office there in case I need to do some work. One other reason was to play War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron. I could only find a version on the net many many years ago and it does not come with an installer. So to play it, I had to use windows. Absolutely love both games.

    One thing that I appreciated: No need for internet connection to run the two games. I remembered I forgot to start up my downloaded games first in SteamOS and when I went to a place without internet, I could not use my SteamOS to play the games because they needed to run one time with internet first. It was a huge reminder that SteamOS is not a completely offline system. I was looking at being stuck without games for a few hours, but then I switched to Windows and played the Transformers games.

    Yeah, you could have emulated games as a backup too. I am just listing out the scenarios I encountered.