Better performance and another USB-C port, that’s pretty much it

Interesting, I’ll have to test my headphone jack. Doesn’t really matter to me however, I just play with the speakers blasting haha.

Not really, it’s pretty self explanatory as long as you play mostly steam games. Just install and play. Any game marked verified or playable should work fine.

What? I played Hogwarts when it first came out and it worked fine. I mean, it ran like ass but it loaded up without issue.

Is the ROG ally too expensive? The software on that works pretty well actually, SteamOS-like overlay and a functional game launcher that lets you customize stuff. They also update stuff fairly frequently although not a lot has changed. The main downside is the whole SD card reader fiasco, but it’s super easy to exchange the SSD (easier then the deck, they even have cloud recovery so you don’t need a USB boot drive and it auto-installs your drivers).

I’m not sure why you wouldn’t be able to load windows on the Deck but you’d be on your own as far as updating drivers and software and stuff. Valve isn’t going to be working on optimizing for Windows.

Mine says “packaged items”

A little but I think how easily you can cap FPS makes it less of an issue on SteamOS compared to Windows.

This is very subjective. I got the switch oled despite having the switch and have 0 regrets. The screen improves the experience by a lot. Gaming isn’t just about power.

I agree but… isn’t this problem completely eliminated by throwing on a glossy screen protector? I’d expect both screens to look the same with a screen protector