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Seems like this is the problem Steam Deck solves.

The Steam Deck came to completely replace my gaming on PC precisely because of this, but mouse+keyboard type games are a mixed bag of experiences... depends a lot on each game.

This one seems to run great, touch screen probably helps a lot. Only complaints seem to be small text on screen:

https://www.protondb.com/app/466300

I also wasn't able to adapt to first person shooters, after a life of playing with mouse, it is almost impossible for me to not feel that gamepad controls are clunky.

How do you replace a mouse with it?

Is it with a touchscreen or knobs on the side?

I think I would still miss a mouse for precision and speed with that ..

It has a touchscreen, two joysticks and two touchpad likes surfaces, you can configure them how you like.

However the screen is 7 inches and text in games like this or early Fallouts is too small for me, so I planned to use SD for them but resigned.

Most of the Infinity Engine games play very well on a Windows tablet with an active stylus.

Unfortunately, PST is an early iteration of the engine and I had problems with inventory manipulation --- not sure if that was ever addressed.

There are capacitive touchpads on both sides of the deck, but calling them that really sells them short. It has an extensive controller mapping system. I play a lot of strategy and RTS games, and they can be set up with a wide variety of customizable overlays and haptics, that you can mix with button-chording as desired

It's worth also emphasising that they can be combined, so that you can combine the touchpads with the gyro such that the touchpads do coarse mouse movement and the gyro does the fine tweaking. This is apparently surprisingly effective, though I've not tried it myself.

Similarly, for FPS the gyro can be used for additional aiming and even set such that it's only enabled when one of the joysticks is touched (via the capacitive receiver).

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