Steam Deck vs. Asus ROG Ally Arch Linux Gaming Performance

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19 points·HieronymusBosch··4 comments

Feels like an amazing time to be a computer gamer, all told. I'm perfectly happy with my Deck, and more than happy to support building more. I'm also more than happy that they are getting competition in this space. Excited to see things progress.

I do think more companies and games should consider using the touchpad approach that the deck has. Works remarkably well, once you get used to it. I really like the games that have one mapped to be the full screen, and the other more like a traditional computer touch pad.

I agree and would add that it's a particularly good time to be a Linux gamer. I recently started downloading games in Fedora on my dual booted machine and so many games support Linux officially now, I think the success of steam deck has contributed to this.

For games that don't officially support Linux, Steam's Proton means most of mine bar two run perfectly on Fedora.

I haven't booted up Windows in months, a good outcome.

Steam has been putting in the work for years. I stopped booting up Windows over 4 years ago thanks to proton and haven't had much of a reason to miss it

Honestly other than GPUs requiring a child sacrifice to moloch to access for most people - it’s been great being a computer gamer this whole time.

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