Elden Ring runs really well in Linux – none of the microstutter that it still sometimes has in Windows.

The rest of the Dark Souls games run great too.

All of the King’s Field games run great in their respective emulators.

Lunacid is a great King’s Field _clone inspired game that just came out of early access and runs very nicely.

Dread Delusion is still in early access, but runs great and has a lot of stuff to do already. It’s like a Morrowind-ish experience.

Divinity Original Sin 2 works, but honestly, those games beg for a mouse and keyboard so the Deck is not my favorite way to play.

Edit: Shouldn’t call Lunacid a clone, it very much has its own personality.

Maybe try FileZilla on the desktop and connect to its FTP server from the Deck (in desktop mode).

I’m not sure exactly how well it works on Windows, but I use sftp from Dolphin to share files with my desktop PC and it works well.

Mortal Sin.

I searched a little while ago for some games that fit well in 10 or 15 minute chunks, and came across this. It’s turning out to be my next roguelite, and it runs very well on the Deck.

I imagine it will be a similar difference to the Switch, except the Deck has a worse LCD than the old Switch, so it’ll be even more apparent seeing them side by side.

Personally, the battery is the thing I’m more interested in, though.

Mine is still claiming 100% battery health, and it certainly feels like the battery life is about the same as when it was new. I got mine early March 2022.

Don’t really need to see a side by side when the specs of each display will tell you what you need to know. No amount of software tweaks with the LCD are going to make it look as nice as the OLED. Especially without local dimming to improve contrast.

Running SteamOS in the preview channel gets you some improvements, but it’s still nowhere close to as vibrant as an OLED will be.

That said, if you’re engrossed in a game and aren’t pixel peeping, the LCD looks fine with the changes in SteamOS 3.5. You’ll know it’s not an OLED but it won’t keep you from playing.