Somebody mentioned Arzopa a few months back and I was able to find one on Amazon on sale. I got the 17.3" one on sale for like $150. It’s not the best gaming monitor, but it’s not bad, and it makes a nice second display for my work laptop.

I don’t have an OLED yet, so I can only report what I’ve seen elsewhere on the sub. Boot to your bios and turn off USB Dual Role Device, change it to xhci, then it should work. From powered off, hold the volume + button when you power on and it should take you to the bios.

I 2nd that the official dock should be the most reliable, but I also have to mention that JSAux has a dock that has an m.2 slot for an additional SSD. That’s the route I went and I’ve had nothing to complain about with it.

You can not install games locally from gamepass on the steam deck without first installing windows. You can stream them from your PC or your Xbox if you don’t want to do the cloud gaming. With a good home network you should have no real perceptible lag. The huge benefit to doing it this way is that since you’re not taxing the hardware at all since you’re just using it as a screen and a controller essentially, you can have really awesome battery life. That’s how I’ve been playing Starfield. I have almost 100 hours in streaming it from my laptop to my deck and have zero complaints.

None of that helps you for away from home though, so you’ll have to weigh your options there.

Not sure how to do it with steam link, but with moonlight there is a resolution changer plugin. Give me a second and I’ll find it.

I’m waiting for Jenova.

I haven’t used this one, but I have the one they make for the switch. If the steam deck case is the same quality I would recommend it.

It is a larger screen with smaller bezels. It occupies the same space as the LCD.

To answer your question, it’s just a computer. Log in to your steam account on it and you can load your steam library.

https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/sony/a80l-a80cl-oled

Resolution 4k
480p @ 59.94Hz (Widescreen) 
 Yes
720p @ 59.94Hz 
 Yes
1080p @ 60Hz @ 4:4:4 
 Yes
1080p @ 120Hz 
 Yes
1080p @ 144Hz 
 No
1440p @ 60Hz 
 No
1440p @ 120Hz 
 No
1440p @ 144Hz 
 No
4k @ 60Hz 
 Yes
4k @ 60Hz @ 4:4:4 
 Yes
4k @ 120Hz 
 Yes
4k @ 120Hz @ 4:4:4 
 Yes
4k @ 144Hz 
 No
8k @ 30Hz or 24Hz 
 No
8k @ 60Hz 
 No

I have a similar one and it’s completely trouble free for me. I’m assuming you have DHCP set up on the router and you’ve confirmed that the ethernet adapter is receiving an IP address?

It does require the rockstar launcher, but it will install it for you, you don’t need to do anything aside from download it. I do recommend starting it in desktop mode the first time so you can get the rockstar launcher logged in and working right, but aside from that it should be trouble free.

Skip using edge all together. Use this instead.

Here is a tutorial to get it set up.

I don’t recommend sharing the actual account, but you can share the library to another account. Only one person at a time is able to play any shared game though. There’s no real way around that aside from the library owner playing offline. The best option really is to have her mom buy her own games just to prevent headaches in the future.

Startup movies is the only thing I’ve ever spent points on.

What is the risk of having black bars?

2tb nvme upgrade or it’s gone forever.

I don’t have an answer, but you left out how you’re doing remote play, and that could potentially change the answer if someone has one for you. Are you using the built in steam remote play, the steam link app, moonlight, or something else?

My current understanding is that the new bios kinda makes cryoutilities obsolete. I’m sure there are still cases where it helps, but it sounds like they’re fringe cases at best.

Quality depends on your internet connection with cloud streaming. I have zero complaints with it personally but I have gigabit internet.