Valorant will not work because of the anti cheat. See https://areweanticheatyet.com/?search=valorant&sortOrder=&sortBy=
For Minecraft you can install Prism Launcher with Discover in Desktop Mode. Just add it to Steam afterwards.
In general there are several ways to install non-Steam games. I usually use Lutris to manage them. You can also use Heroic, Bottles or just add the game’s exe to Steam and configure it in Steam to launch with Proton.
Would love to see one of these in a store to see if it could be modded to house another phone.
Aren’t taxes included in everything in Europe? They are at least in Germany. So the price you see is the price you pay Including shipping.
It is possible to link the Deck and the Quest with ALVR. You don’t even need a cable for it, it works over wifi. But the Steam Deck is not powerful enough to run VR games. This will be a terrible experience. The only satisfaction that could come off of this would be from getting it to work at all. But beyond that you won’t be able to do anything useful with this.
No, not typical at all. You should RMA.
It depends on the game, I think. Something like Cities Skylines is tough on the Deck. But old adventure games work quite well.
I even managed to play the Star Craft campaign on the Deck. I wouldn’t play online or with higher difficulties. But at least for casual play it’s enough.
I’m still downloading, as it is a big patch. But if the patch notes are to be believed it should be a big improvement, as they are targeting the Xbox Series S. Patch 4 was already pretty good with the addition of FSR 2.
And in case you don’t have much time to play, the performance problems are in the third act, which you should reach in about 80 hours. So depending on your speed and play style there might be another patch coming up before you get there.
The Steam games are pretty much plug and play. And if you read one simple tutorial on how to add Gforce Now to Steam (you basically just add a browser that goes to Gforce Now on start) that should also be plug and play from then on.
Everything beyond that depends on if you want to do it. Like, if you want to play games from other stores you more or less download another app like Heroic, add that to Steam and it’s plug and play from then on. If you want to get into emulation, you add your emulator with a ROM to Steam and it’s plug and play from then on.
So, if you never leave the Steam eco-system it’s plug and play. If you find something beyond that you want to do but don’t know how you look up a tutorial and with that you usually end up with another game you can just click on and play. But you don’t have to do that.
The Steam Deck is only as complicated as you want it to be.
I don’t have the game, but from my experience with other games the only issue you might experience are slight studders when new textures are encountered for the first time. You can mitigate this with DXVK async, although I haven’t kept up completely with the state of that. It might actually not be needed at all and textures just might look a little bit bad for a second until they are fully loaded.
So in conclusion I expect you will encounter minor to no issues.
I’ve played DnD through the browser and with Discord. I also recorded our sessions with OBS.
I’ve used it to help my kids troubleshoot computer troubles with Sunshine and Moonlight and Discord.
I’ve even done small programming tasks. But that’s painful without a proper keyboard.
All in all I more or less use it like all my other computers. As soon as bazzite has added an on-screen keyboard for full disk encryption I am switching to that so that I’m not limited by the locked root partition.
The patch needs 130 GB of free space, maybe you don’t have enough and it gets into an error. I would uninstall and reinstall the game. Your saves and settings should be untouched by that.