A little tip for you: that wasted space in the case is meant for the charger. On the largest model, it also comes with an eggbag to put the charger in.
this, although since the steam deck isnt avalible over there it would been kinda pointless LMG giving him the cable i guess. Although as someone said "not in the UK" because the UK cable bulges out like no tomorrow. thankfully jsaux released a multi region charging cable so that can actually fit.
The yellow caution circle sating it’s “partially compatible” usually means you have to use the keyboard occasionally or it has the wrong button prompts. Valve’s standards are really high for Deck Verified, and I’ve even had “incompatible” games work fine. This thing can even handle Switch emulation, never mind every retro system you could ever want. Top tier emulation device.
They used to* I've seen several mentions of popular games being "playable" while having absolutely dogshit perfomance like Remnant 2 or maybe that one flashy fantasy game that sadly flopped I'm not sure - or games fully playable being tagged as unplayable for some reason despite working well or purely because of small text
"Partially Compatible" can also mean the writing is a bit small to read on the Deck because of the 800p resolution. I take everything that is labelled fully and partially as working on Deck. I haven't seen an issue with this philosophy.
@@RandommBoyo Remnant 2 is full on unsupported, since the studio decided to make their game require DLSS on modern cards just to run at a decent framerate
It is horrendous that we (Aussies) get shafted on valve products, I'm prepared to by a Index but nobody sells them (that aren't ripping you off for 3x price increase) and the Steam deck i got is a grey import and is likely not covered by any warranty. it sucks to be an Aussie when valve sell such awesome products. Foot Note: I love my 1st gen Steamdeck!
As a fellow Aussie I am unbelievably bummed that I can't buy one of these. Not only will they not ship here, but they won't accept Australian credit cards to drop ship via one of the many international shipping methods. You literally need someone else in another country using their local currency to buy it for you. I just don't understand the bloody complication. There would be hundreds of wholesalers and retailers ready to take on their products in Australia. It would still cost more than it should (Straya tax and all), but at least we would have a legitimate method of buying them. Either there is some technical holdup with their product in Australia, or Valve are just a pack of cunts and it's easier to make bank in North America.
@@Stinkys8050 kogan sell them, cover warranty and provide australian chargers for them free of charge (You will get 2 parcels, one with the deck and a separate one with an australian charger unit) we have purchased 3 from them and about to purchase the fourth.
I have no idea why there would be a technical hold up, there's so many obscure devices you can buy and ship to Australia without issue, I hope they arent doing it because of profit/logistics/anticipated units sold etc, but I'm not sure how that would be a thing.@@Stinkys8050
@@Stinkys8050 I really don't know what their problem is with us. They keep adding more countries to their game awards, etc, steam deck giveaways but never Australia. Yet 3rd world countries and latin america is fine. What could even possibly be an issue?? I can shop anything else from any other country just fine. Even things like taobao in China make accommodations for Australian shoppers like. Wtf is Valve's problem.
As a Linux nerd, my favorite thing about the Deck isn't just that it runs Linux, it's that Valve is a massive and super friendly contributor to Linux as a whole. They've been pushing HDR development super hard for a like a year and we didn't really know why until they announced the Deck OLED. They've had their hands in everything from the Kernel to KDE to Proton/Wine, and it benefits *everyone*. Ironically, everything they've done has also made it easier to play GOG/Epic/DRM-free games on Linux too. Isn't it great when a big company isn't being terrible?
I love my Steamdeck, but know nothing about Linux, so I’ve really struggled with anything in desktop mode. I actually started over once already with a fresh SSD and Steam OS install, but I think I’ll be wiping that soon and trying again. Linux is just so foreign to me. But at least game mode does work well.
I think 800p is a nice sweet spot for the screen size. Even upping it to just 1080p would be a very minor difference in visual quality for a big hit in performance.
@@The_MEMEphis I would think that most people if they were to just look at the LCD display and ask what their opinion of the image quality was without being told the actual specs, they would say "It looks fine." The OLED though has 110% RGB color gamut and it's HDR 1000 capable. It's fantastic.
Would you rather buy a Nintendo Switch, or a slightly bigger Switch, with a built in Wii, GameCube, PS3, Dreamcast, etc for $50 more? Not to mention having your whole Steam library of course
As someone who has been playing games on Linux since I made the switch back in 2008, Valve have been an absolute saviour. Things were getting progressively easier over the years, and Valve stepped up and turbocharged it. We've gone from "sure yeah it might work if you spend some time tinkering" to "yeah 90% of the time it'll just work straight away as long as there's no anticheat bullshit" Long live Valve. Long live Gaben.
Seconding this! I was attempting to game on Linux back in the dark times, around 2000-2005 when there was only a handful of native releases available. Basically Quake 3, Neverwinter Nights, and...not much else. Now, basically everything I want to play runs in Proton on Steam or has a native client!
Same, been using Linux distros as my daily OSes since around 2010. It was amazing thing to witness over the years, that we went from "you have to manually configure your Wine prefix or find some specific old libraries for a source port to work" to just pressing "Install" in Steam/Lutris/Heroic and just play.
Mad isn't it, just how far things have come. You learn shit too. 14 years of Linux experience landed me a job as a sysadmin, with basic school leaver qualifications.
@itsquiwi8780 mate, I don't even really buy games from Steam. I'm talking about the contributions Valve have made to Proton, which can be used without Steam.
1:58 - Not only do people not like this shit, it confuses old people. Microsoft should pay me for every time I have had to drive out to my dad's house to "fix" his PC because it was giving him this message an he was confused. People who do not understand windows do not see this window and think "Oh let me sit down and read it." They think, "Strange weird message I wasn't expecting, it must be broken."
Mate, I've been loving your videos ever since I started watching you But today You introduced me to Snakey Bus. I've never heard of the game before, but as soon as I saw it in the video I just bought it on steam. I've been having an absolute blast with the game... genuinely, thank you so much, I love it. I've been playing it non stop for the past half hour and I can already say it's some of the most fun I've had on a game! I absolutely love it! Simple, straightforward and entertaining
That space in the bottom of the case is for putting your charger into. I got the 512GB original model and the charger comes in a little draw-string bag you pop it into then slide it under that elastic band. It works surprisingly well.
yea same here, i also just ended up coiling up the cable and then the charging block sits beside the cable in the elastic band. I think i bought the 64 gb one so i didnt get a charger lol
Yeah, I used to keep it there in its eggbag, but now I opted for the Jsaux case because it's less bulky and takes less space in my backpack when I'm travelling with it. I still use the eggbag, but I mainly use it keep a USB C adapter to HDMI and USB A and a couple of extra Micro SDs because I bought separate ones for games and movies
What a weird world it is where the paid option (Windows) has ads, yet the free one (Linux) doesn't. I can't buy a steam deck here either but as a Linux user I'm still getting all the benefits from Valve's efforts with Proton.
Honestly somehow after 3 months of linux experience (linux mint), I somehow feel like I am fighting with windows if I wanted to do a thing whereas in linux is like sure do it Really liked that.
@@d3fury312 -Hey, you need to finish your Windows setup ! :D -But i've been using it for months and it's working fine ? -Do you want to log into an online account ? -...no ? -I SAID do you want an online account ? Yes, or yes but in 3 days ? :) And this is when I switched. If I had known sooner honestly, I'd probably have jumped ship a couple years ago. Linux is really as good as people say with this. It's... frictionless.
@@readyforlol the more linux gets recognition the more draw backs will be eliminated, the past few years are great examples of it, honestly window's situation is like internet Explorer they were good got the Monopoly in market but didn't improve anything instead made it worse, I just hope microsoft learn from it at least now and start from the starting to "remake" Windows otherwise their situation would be like internet Explorer.
@@d3fury312I've got a good desktop at home but when I'm on the move, I take with me my old laptop. It was a good laptop 6+ years ago, now it's far from being a powerhouse, I installed Linux on it around a year ago (PopOS with a different desktop environment) and holy shit, I just love it. The hardware isn't the snappiest ever but it runs better than windows 10, I can have it as barebone as I want or customise it to hell and back, and since it's another "easy to use" Linux distribution, I almost never had to use any commands, almost no issues. And most of the games I want to play are working on it natively or work well enough with emulation, same for all the software I need.
Hey sort of random question, have you listened to "Toehider" before? They're one of my dad's all time favorite bands and I just found out today they're also Australian XD I need to know... 🐈
Fun facts: It came with an egg bag for your charger so you can put it in the back where the elastic handle is and the case separates to reduce the physical size of it.
are australian plugs really different O_o I have never been to Australia and know very little about that place, except that spiders can kill you. nearly everything in Australia can kill you. X_X@@RusticRonnie
From the thumbnail I was worried you were going dislike the deck but was so happy after you started singing its praises. I love the deck so much it’s been an amazing experience and glad you were able to get your hands on one finally
It probably has to do with their extremely strict video games laws that they have to make sure they comply with before sale. Remember how long it took time to get L4D2 and how censored it was
@@edison700 from what I heard the product might not be reliable enough for Australian consumer laws? But it might be a whole load of bs, anyway I haven't experienced problems with my 64gb version.
As an avid user of the Steam Deck, I am surprised at how much it let me do. This thing carried me through the final year of my Music Degree, I legitimately mixed like 5 tracks on this thing and still use it for Music Creation (works wonders with a Scarlett Interface!). Also recently upgraded it to a 2TB SSD (I have a base model one not an OLED). The amount of games I have on this installed is mental and I still have half of my storage left. There were a lot of issues here and there, but for something that was designed to mainly just play Steam games, I am still impressed till this day.
Scarlett interfaces are sad on Windows, I use a solo 2nd gen and an AKG P220 for guitar recordings but since I'm lazy I also use that same setup for Discord VC and both the windows provided driver and the official focusrite drivers are trash, it's a meme at this point among my friends that my drivers get auto uninstalled or corrupted in the middle of a call and I have to manually uninstall them, reboot, reinstall them, reboot again and get back to our game or work collab. Meanwhile on Linux they just work out of the box, no set up necessary and they work perfectly, I refuse to use my scarlett solo on my windows machine now and it's permanently attached now to my Linux workstation lol
i LOVE mine. also music student and i couldn’t take my pc with me moving across the US for a new degree. this thing has been such a great sidekick and has entertained my roommate and i with emulated split screen. i considered upgrading to the OLED but i just can’t give up the little thing after how much i’ve upgraded on it (new ssd, matte protector, etc)
@@Zesuto3 God, I'm not the only way. This interface has been giving so much trouble recently. But they recently pushed an update in regards to high system load which seems to be working fine for now.
Thanks to the OLED release I was able to buy the LCD model that week with a 1tb sd card for $270.... I thought the "weak battery life" would bug me, but I've never actually run out of battery using it during downtime at work. My biggest issue with the steam deck (both LCD and OLED) is the type C port is permanently soldered to the motherboard like a few inches away from the APU.... Literally everything else was swappable, but the thing that breaks just as often as the display on other consoles (Nintendo switch type C ports are almost as common as PS5 hdmi repairs in my shop for example). Anyone that has ever done a switch type C repair: the deck type C is even more annoying to repair, this board requires a metric asston of heat to get going. Valve should've given us a board that connects with a standard ribbon connector or gave us some kind of board that connects with pin-pad contact with screws to keep it aligned and solid.... better than risking bricking the entire unit because max temperature on your hot air station wasn't enough, you accidentally cooked the APU, low melt/heat got to other components and now you gotta make sure they're all good, and btw you lifted a couple pads time for the old scrape the PCB and tiny wire/lug trick.
$270 is insanely good. I bought mine off my friend with the 1tb SD expansion do he could upgrade to OLED for £300 ($310-340) I'd 100% recommend getting a dock to go with it if you haven't one already, and valves dock is a very solid option but there are some other cheaper alternatives out there
@@Deadguy2322forreal That isn't a real solution for parts subject to wear/tear like charging ports.... I just repaired a Moto G power that looks like our wholesale B+ phones (B+ is practically brand-new with minor scratches on the body from normal use) with a broken charge port. Ports must be easily-replaceable. Especially if that port serves dual-purpose for the dock. Valve made everything else easily-replaceable, the type-c should've also been designed like this. Also, people's are human and mistakes/accidents happen. I repair electronics and take obsessive care of my devices (after spending all day fixing things the last thing I want to do is fix my own stuff at home) and I still have to repair my stuff sometimes after an accident.
One of the unspoken best bits about the Deck is that it's a great emulation machine. Being able to play Timesplitters wherever/whenever you want is magical.
The Deck is the only reason I finally got around to finishing every branch of the fan-translated Japanese release of Ace Combat 3. Janking a controller into a laptop just wasn't doin' it.
it's almost like the people blindly parroting 'buh ereyboody copies da appl' are just lazy because there have always been repairable products from good companies and companies just make whatever people buy.
That's apparently asking for waaayyyy too much in this economy where apparently phone companies aren't giving out chargers to "save the environment" when they don't even offer any type of electronic recycling information. Just "buy one".
I bought one near Thanksgiving, and my current living situation being miserable, this really kept me feeling better. I can play essentially my entire 400+ game library on the go, use the desktop for my apps that I need for 3D printing to music to light video editing (with a keyboard and mouse), it's been a nonstop workhorse and genuinely a blast to be able play my games again while I'm away from my main PC. I'm glad you like yours.
Gang felt that my friend. Moved into a van due to insane rent cost to save for a home and I got an Ally to still be able to play games. Super satisfied with my purchase. I'm really happy there's portable options for those of us who can't have full gaming computers due to practicality.
This is the exact reason I switched over to Linux for my main PC, not having to deal with all the bullshit Microsoft is trying to rope you into with the AI copilot, news sidebar, ads in the start menu and search, etc. is fantastic.
I fully agree with this. I recently installed Linux on a backup disk connected to my pc and it is now my go-to system for most things. It just works better and I don’t have to deal with Microsoft bs. Luckily my windows install is one of the oldest versions of windows 11(21h2), and I refuse to upgrade, so I don’t have to deal with relearning things as much. But I still have to deal with Microsoft being, well… Microsoft
To be fair, you can disable the news sidebar, online functionality in the search bar, and AI co-pilot. I run Windows 11 and don't have any of them. It takes maybe 10 minutes of Googling.
@@Wilus0 I would not say that windows looks dated since it looks like every other mainstream flat bland UI, But I defiantly agree that the interface is so messed up with the crappy settings menu half taking from control panel and stuff like that. Windows 7, XP and even 9x looked way better.
Personally I love how valve made the handheld market more accessible for people who willing to take it to another level. Gotta give them props for hitting it out of the park. Edit: sorry I missed this point, I meant by accesible in terms of platforms to play your games on that’s normally expensive on others. But a good counterpoint is the regions. As much as the steam deck isn’t available for everyone, it’s a fair bet for valve to start off slowly until they’re sure it’s for everybody. They learned their mistakes from the steam controller or the steam game console; they’re giving the deck the best chance at being successful.
Given how widely used Steam is as a hosting platform for games these days, them making a handheld version of it was always going to be a hit. I'm glad to see that they didn't fumble that and understood the assignment.
I was so happy when I saw the Steam Deck package arrive at my house. It comes in a plain looking cardboard box with only the steamdeck logo and portal cube hinting at what it is. That's awesome because it doesn't look like something worth stealing. Then when you open it there's just a cardboard insert, the deck in it's case, and the charger. Valve did the smart thing and instead of buying fancy packaging, they took that money and bought the cases instead and used that as packing material which I would way rather take than a fancy box. PS: That empty spot in the case is for the original charger which it holds just fine.
I really hope the Steam Deck comes out in Australia soon, but this also reminds me of how ahead of its time the vita was. I swear I was like one of 12 people in Australia that bought the thing, but it still feels so good to use
I've hard my Vita for around five years now and I absolutely love it. I've got a sweet handgrip on mine, and looking for a good decal to put over it. The only complaint I can think of (and its just a nitpick) is that the screen is kind of small, at least compared to newer handhelds that have come after it. But yeah the Vita deserves a lot of love, and a lot of credit for still being a great handheld even after the long amount of time it's been since it first came out.
They should not have cancelled the Vita over the popularity of smartphone games at that time. Now they're so far behind on the handheld segment of the market
I'm glad to have purchased the steam deck made gaming with 2 kids and busy lives much easier. The instant wake and ability just jump straight back into what you were previously playing is amazing especially when you get asked to help out with something. Ready and waiting when you're done.
5:30 Linux gaming on desktop is a very real thing. Any game you can run on a steam deck you can run on a Linux desktop since they both use Steam Proton. Steam OS itself is even available on desktop by using HoloISO, although you could install any arch based system with KDE and get pretty much the same experience using Steam's big picture mode.
Normally the Steamdeck actually comes with a mesh draw stringbag to put the charger and other stuff in. Then you just put that in the 'dead wasted space' area and the elastic keeps it from falling out. Work great for keeping the charger, cable, and an external SSD imo.
I have 2 Wii Us, long story short, I broke the gamepad on my first Wii U and my mother and I bought a bundled used Wii U and Gamepad from a bookstore near us just to get the replacement gamepad. Honestly I would much rather use an Xbox style controller over the Gamepad, those action and trigger buttons on the gamepad feel weird.
Microsoft has been riding high on its high market share, and is adding more and more ads and bloat… thank god the steam deck choose linux, it existing has greatly increased game support for Linux desktops too. And I find KDE and Linux in general (by the steam deck’s presence?) has improved, stabilised, and is now generally a much better, more stable OS than a couple of years ago.
The Steam Deck has been absolutely phenomenal for playing games on my backlog. But now I have the problem where I keep buying games to play on the Steam Deck... Well played Valve
the biggest benefit for myself is being able to play almost all of the latest game without paying a shit ton of money. For example, the old laptop I have has worse performance than deck, but it cost around 1.2k at the time... basically all gaming laptops are a huge scam. 😬
@@spugelo359the steam deck is cheap because it's subsidized by steam. If other companies had their own game stores they'd be willing to drop their prices on cheaper gaming PCs
For that version of the case that comes with the 1tb version, the internal liner is just velcro’d in, so you can take off the outer section if you want to have a slimmer case profile.
Crazy timing cause i just got my own Steam Deck recently (i got LCD tho, oop), and I love it so far. The controls they crammed in is what I like the most, letting me get really wacky with how i play games when i feel like it. Im also realizing how many steam games i owned but never touched and now im gonna easily go through them.
well, the sad part is that valve refuses to sell them the steam deck to Australians and Linux can run windows games faster through emulation then windows can run games native. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 and you wonder why windows is losing market share well duh when this is the reality of Linux gaming with windows games makes me fear what is possible with Linux games should a triple a dev makes a great game to use all the power of Linux.
Linux gamer here (not a steam deck! Ryzen 1600/GTX1060). Your points about Windows are one of the reasons why I quit windows and moved to Kubuntu. It's so nice to have a machine that just *is* and isn't constantly trying to shove some crap down your face for money and attention. It's come leaps and bounds from the dark days. I remember trying to get OpenBVE rolling on Ubuntu 12.04 and having hell on earth trying to get it to even launch. Now everything from Factorio to Just Cause 3 just *boink* works! I'll admit I am lucky in that most of what I play is either single player or co-op so I don't have to contend with anti-cheat as much, but even so, it's good!
Zorin 17 user here, have been Linux gaming for ages but always with a W10 partition as a backup. Proton (both 8 and experimental) has become so rock stable and fast that I deleted it and moved my entire Steam catalog to Zorin. I'm not sure what kind of wizardry Valve is using but RDR2 actually runs slightly faster under Linux/Proton than under W10. Ryzen 7600X/RX 6750 XT absolutely flies under Linux thanks to AMD's really solid Linux support.
It's funny to hear you say "only a matter of time" about Linux desktop gaming. It's here! It's now! Not everything works perfectly, but anything that works on the steam deck & more work on desktop Linux. It's wild to see and things are only getting better.
I got a refurbished one from Valve for nearly half off when they announced the OLED model. A 512GB one for nearly the original MSRB price for the 64GB model, and it looks like a brand new model and runs like one.
I personally can't live without trackpads after growing accustom to them on Steam Deck, as I feel it truly makes up for mouse control on a handheld device. That's why I really like the Steam Deck, and I'm hoping I can still get the OLED model in some fashion. And hopefully modified with extra storage, since that's how I got my Steam Deck and it was totally worth it!
@@mitchjames9350I’m not the person you asked but I personally like them a lot. I have the old steam controller and i actually prefer it for destiny over m+k. Same goes with my steam deck
People scoff at the touchpads all the time, but once they play something that'd require a mouse, they just *get it.* Valve were very thoughtful when designing the Steam Controller, and thus, the Deck
@@RadikAlice Frankly I am scoffing at any "handheld PC" that doesn't have this layout because I don't understand how you comfortably navigate a desktop environment without em So many things got touted as "Steam Deck killer!!" but missed that most important part: actually being usable as a handheld PC
The fact that 34 out of the 43 games in my Steam library work on Linux either straight out of the box or with minimal tweaking is really impressive and a testament to just how good Linux gaming is getting. Even a couple years ago, you’d have been lucky if half of your games would work and now it’s nearly 80%!
@@flimtok Moinly a couple online games that haven’t enabled anti-cheat fixes like Destiny 2 and The Crew 2. Also RaceRoom is a pain in the rear to get my racing wheel working with, despite the game running fine with only a couple easy tweaks. Most everything else either works straight away or at most requires pasting a command in the Launch Options or switching Proton versions.
The Steam Deck was one of those rare instances where I decided to jump into a first gen tech product (I pre-ordered the 256GB within minutes of them going live back in 2021) and it's one of those rare moments I'm so happy I did and almost regret not going for the top model.
Weirdly happy about the shoutout to the Wii U controls, I always liked the Wii U gamepad's layout even though it feels like a prototype or a toy compared to the weight of the switch, the layout is so comfy to use. I like the Wii U pro controller for the same reason. It's kind of a shame the switch didn't stick to that layout. My Wii U is unhappy currently but man I still go back and play zelda games on it all the time. It's such a great little console for just playing through a bunch of the older Zelda titles. I've heard rumors you can get it to play gamecube games too.
I think they changed the layout so people don't confuse it with the Wii U like it happened before, also so when you detached the joy cons to get a normal layout, but the gamepad was really comfortable, specially to create levels in mario maker
Pretty sure its possible to play gamecube games on the wii u if you mod it, I'd reccomend doing it. Its a pretty simple process, given if you are familiar with some computer stuff (even then you dont need to be a computer genius)
this is because valve does not earn much from steamdeck, in fact the basic models are sold almost at a loss. It is a product made "because they can" with attention to detail
That’s because PCs have universally awful sound chips that are also surrounded by masses of interference. You should always use an external DAC, and completely isolate it from the PC (optical TOSLINK does the trick at the cost of introducing some jitter). The Steam Deck might also be full of other electronics, but it doesn’t have a 1000W AC power supply and a 400W graphics card with thousands of cores each sat a few inches from the DAC. It’s still good of Valve to have bothered putting in good sound hardware, since reviewers never bother to mention it. You’d think they all have an extra pair of eyes instead of ears for how much graphics get talked about while sound is never mentioned.
@@ChrisStoneinator An optical connection for PC audio is completely obsolete these days and will actually limit your options more than it helps. Any USB DAC that wasn't fished out of the bargain bin is well enough isolated that it won't introduce any noise from the PC to the actual output signal.
Fully agreed, my Schiit Fulla 2 for my PC still sounds a little better than the Deck, but the Deck easily beats all built in audio circuits on my PCs, laptops, and phones.
I loved how you filmed this. Watching you play games on the Steam deck while still getting to see you emote with your hands is just different and refreshing compared to how everyone else does their game play VODs
got a 64gb steam deck last year via Kogan, upgraded the ssd to a terrabyte, and havent looked back basically. now using it as my main gaming rig, with a keyboard, mouse, monitor and a 8bitdo ultimate controller
@DankPods 8:27 There is supposed to be a soft pouch there that can be used to store stuff like earbuds, flash drives, micro-sd, and anything else. The pouch is the size of the entire crevice that you see. It is possible that when you bought yours from LTT, they left out that pouch accidently.
@@bmz4 Google 'Steam Deck Case - 512GB', there's a steam news webpage where Valve shows everything that's included with the case. Edit: Doing more research. It seems that there were two models of carrying cases. One with a removable liner and one without. The removal liner was offered for 1 TB OLED and 512 GB LCD (prior to OLED launch) and has the pouch. I'm inclined to think that LTT would sell the higher end model to Dankpods but I could be wrong.
@@dvtye3378 those are images of the LCD steam deck, the 512gb model of the LCD deck is the most expensive, so it has an exclusive case. the 512gb OLED has its own case with a orange logo and no pouch, and since its the cheapest OLED it doesnt have the better case of the 1tb/LE OLED
I’ve had my LCD steam deck for over a year now, I’ve loved it and most of my favorite games of all time were solely played on it, despite having a more powerful pc. I keep coming back because of how great the deck is to use anywhere
The outter shell and intershell also seperates on that carry case so that you have a light weight shell to use that doesn't have the "wasted space", which someone pointed out is for storing your power brick. Using the inner case will mean that you have to store the cable seperately, but it gives you the flexibility to choose which is nice.
Green and yellow means it will run fine. The yellow just means there might be some formatting issues like small font or weird controls that you may have to configure. The white circle with a line through it is the one that means that they aren’t sure if it runs but tbh in my experience most of those will run too. The only ones that don’t run seem to be the call of duty’s and other games that require anti cheat for online play.
They not only just used Wine to create a translation layer for ANY game that isn’t supported, it’ll just allow you try run it regardless. But they actually created their own bespoke version of Wine called Proton, which is way more powerful especially for gaming. Not only that, but if you add third-party Windows software to your steam library, it’ll even allow you to run it thru proton lmao. Valve are one of the biggest contributors to the Arch Linux distro, to the point where they’re now helping to back major projects for the operating system in the name of gaming, and they hardly advertise this anywhere. The entire reason we even have any degree of HDR on Linux AT ALL is because of Valve. I don’t think any company in existence is kind or consumer-friendly, but Valve is one of the only exceptions to that for me.
+1 to this - Valve will sometimes list a game as untested or incompatible out of the box, but ProtonDB will often list reliable patches or command flags.
I think this is probably the first (and only) console to date that I've bought twice - once when the system first came out I preordered it and received it almost an entire year later. And then this year when the OLED came out I got the 1 TB Limited Edition model. Haven't looked back since. The newest one is heeps better. Welcome to the Club, Dank
i've been daily driving my steam deck since i first got it the summer of last year and this is the single best gaming purchase i've ever gotten. almost 600 hours into risk of rain 2 exclusively on the deck and who knows how many in my other games. hoping to get an oled soon, i'm so jealous of the upgraded screen
It's a bigger upgrade than you might think. The bigger display is really noticable if you played on the deck LCD a while before moving to the OLED. And the difference between the OLED display and the LCD display showing the same scene in the same game is monumental.
That "dead space" on the case you mentioned is where I put the little drawstring bag that came with it (I use it for my charging cable mostly). They must not have given you one when you bought it.
8:26 There's a 3D printable model for a storage compartment that you could use the empty space of the Steamdeck's case for. Normally its made to hold the charger in there instead of the Egg bag they provide but I'm pretty sure there's a version to just hold anything in place.
(4:40) But that's the PlayStation controls, not Wii U controls. Dpad and face buttons top left and right, with the sticks diagonally down (although just slightly down).
if you're comfortable using the desktop mode I would highly recommend at least giving linux a go on your main PC, you can even install it on a separate drive so that you don't have to worry about your windows system. I got fed up with windows a few years ago and tried linux instead and I haven't looked back, it is incredible. I would recommend going with either Linux Mint or Pop!_OS (Mint has a UI closer to windows and Pop has one closer to mac, but they both run on the same linux fork) as they are both extremely user-friendly and easy to use, and if you use Nvidia GPUs Pop OS can automatically set up the drivers etc. (Nvidia doesn't like linux for some reason, with AMD and intel the drivers auto-install and update on nearly every linux distribution). Proton and Wine have come such an incredibly long way with gameplay compatibility that I no longer have to check if a game is compatible with linux because I'm 99% sure it'll work (I mainly play singleplayer games so I don't have to deal with anticheat, YMMV).
Pro tip. You can 3d print a spool for the charge cable to fit itself empty space. And it can hold sd cards and ear buds (ok you just kinda crap them in there there isn't one to put them in really nice)
I'm Australian and own the original 64gb Steam Deck. The amount of hoops and hurdles I had to go through just to purchase it and ship it over here were crazy. You need a VPN, USA reshipper, and a virtual USA credit card just to get it over in Australia. Absolutely love it though it was 100% worth it.
Now if only Ausies can embrace technology so they can unlock the tech achievement allowing access to certain products such as the Steam Deck for example.
@@S1RLANC3 nah pretty sure valve is refusing to sell to Australians is because our gov took them to court of steam not offering refunds. we can't get any valve hardware in oz
For Australians the main method is to have it sent to an American Address and afterwards shipped or flown to Australia. Theres a couple of services online which their main business model is that. Try something far cheaper 1st to try out the services 1st.
Yeah, I've run out of the Steam Deck for about a year now, after upgrading the in-game SSD. It's been a blast having it portable, but having it plugged into the dock and having it practically be a desktop with keyboard and mouse, sometimes even an external monitor + harddrive has been amazing.
Steam/Valve not selling to Australia is still the most incredible pain, especially towards the deck and the index. In the process of a US based friend sending me an index cable because I don't trust the ones on Amazon/Ebay
The reason it took so long for the steam deck to arrive in Australia was because valve was still salty at the Australian government for forcing steam to have a refund policy 😂
I've not upgraded to Windows 11, still on 10. It's nice you can use software to emulate the older start menus but that really should just be an option you can turn on. As for the Steam Deck, they're awesome. My favourite gaming brick so far.
As someone who just joined the smartphone world over the last two years, I was not prepared for the avalanche of advertisements that would be thrown my way. People just accept this as normal, too! No matter how many notifications I disable, no matter how many things I block, there's always more trash and sludge waiting for me. Idiocracy really was a documentary, man.
@@UnderEu look out bois, we got a tough guy here! you do know that not everyone cares about those details right? all thats required for a review to be a review is a simple, it gud or it bad. anyone watching dank pods are pretty capable of figuring all that extra crap out themselves afterwards. also, maybe people wont include those details because of the millions of other videos breaking the thing down both figuratively and literally :3 its a beaten horse my guy.
My dad sold his steam deck on Christmas eve through FB marketplace and we thought they weren't being serious becuase their location on their facebook profile was Australia and we are in the UK. Turns out they were looking for one whilst over for the holidays! So I had to watch this video because of that 😂
omg thank you for the snakeybus shoutout! I love the game and maybe if more ppl are playing it the dev will finally give it good controller support lol
Valve is really good at creating input devices and schemes. My absolute favorite controller (for PC games at least) is the steam controller (basically a deck, though it’s inverse Xbox and missing a right stick, dpad, and only has one grip button per side.) I recently tried to play half life two with it and the control scheme is damn near perfect, just missing a little bit of qol functionality due to lack of buttons (like having to control vehicles acceleration and steering with just the left stick, but I fixed that through reconfiguring). It’s also incredibly durable and comfortable. I can only imagine the deck is even better.
@@RadikAliceI didn't know about the patent troll, I'd just assumed they put it on the backburner and now that the Steam Deck is such a success, hopefully that doesn't get in the way of them making a Steam Controller successor that puts the best aspects of Steam Deck's controls into a great big gamepad.
A little tip for you: that wasted space in the case is meant for the charger. On the largest model, it also comes with an eggbag to put the charger in.
Ok
Not in the UK I can tell ya that
this, although since the steam deck isnt avalible over there it would been kinda pointless LMG giving him the cable i guess. Although as someone said "not in the UK" because the UK cable bulges out like no tomorrow. thankfully jsaux released a multi region charging cable so that can actually fit.
I tried to use it that way on my first Steam Deck, but it kind of just ruined the elastic band.
It can also be used for the dock you can buy.
The yellow caution circle sating it’s “partially compatible” usually means you have to use the keyboard occasionally or it has the wrong button prompts. Valve’s standards are really high for Deck Verified, and I’ve even had “incompatible” games work fine.
This thing can even handle Switch emulation, never mind every retro system you could ever want. Top tier emulation device.
They used to* I've seen several mentions of popular games being "playable" while having absolutely dogshit perfomance like Remnant 2 or maybe that one flashy fantasy game that sadly flopped I'm not sure - or games fully playable being tagged as unplayable for some reason despite working well or purely because of small text
@@RandommBoyoThat's the exception to the rule, really. But yeah, that does happen.
Yeah they are VERY strict on which games get verified. Though sometimes they aren't.
"Partially Compatible" can also mean the writing is a bit small to read on the Deck because of the 800p resolution.
I take everything that is labelled fully and partially as working on Deck. I haven't seen an issue with this philosophy.
@@RandommBoyo Remnant 2 is full on unsupported, since the studio decided to make their game require DLSS on modern cards just to run at a decent framerate
It is horrendous that we (Aussies) get shafted on valve products, I'm prepared to by a Index but nobody sells them (that aren't ripping you off for 3x price increase) and the Steam deck i got is a grey import and is likely not covered by any warranty. it sucks to be an Aussie when valve sell such awesome products.
Foot Note: I love my 1st gen Steamdeck!
As a fellow Aussie I am unbelievably bummed that I can't buy one of these. Not only will they not ship here, but they won't accept Australian credit cards to drop ship via one of the many international shipping methods. You literally need someone else in another country using their local currency to buy it for you. I just don't understand the bloody complication. There would be hundreds of wholesalers and retailers ready to take on their products in Australia. It would still cost more than it should (Straya tax and all), but at least we would have a legitimate method of buying them. Either there is some technical holdup with their product in Australia, or Valve are just a pack of cunts and it's easier to make bank in North America.
@@Stinkys8050 kogan sell them, cover warranty and provide australian chargers for them free of charge (You will get 2 parcels, one with the deck and a separate one with an australian charger unit) we have purchased 3 from them and about to purchase the fourth.
I have no idea why there would be a technical hold up, there's so many obscure devices you can buy and ship to Australia without issue, I hope they arent doing it because of profit/logistics/anticipated units sold etc, but I'm not sure how that would be a thing.@@Stinkys8050
Don't suppose you have a Wise card? I wonder if that would work with Valve 🤔
@@Stinkys8050 I really don't know what their problem is with us. They keep adding more countries to their game awards, etc, steam deck giveaways but never Australia. Yet 3rd world countries and latin america is fine. What could even possibly be an issue?? I can shop anything else from any other country just fine. Even things like taobao in China make accommodations for Australian shoppers like. Wtf is Valve's problem.
As a Linux nerd, my favorite thing about the Deck isn't just that it runs Linux, it's that Valve is a massive and super friendly contributor to Linux as a whole. They've been pushing HDR development super hard for a like a year and we didn't really know why until they announced the Deck OLED. They've had their hands in everything from the Kernel to KDE to Proton/Wine, and it benefits *everyone*.
Ironically, everything they've done has also made it easier to play GOG/Epic/DRM-free games on Linux too. Isn't it great when a big company isn't being terrible?
The problem for consumers isn't the big company, the problem is the stock market.
@@tzuyd "monopoly"
@@CptDuckthey do have a monopoly, sort of, but they're not publicly traded, meaning they are ABLE to lose money, and not get in trouble.
I love my Steamdeck, but know nothing about Linux, so I’ve really struggled with anything in desktop mode.
I actually started over once already with a fresh SSD and Steam OS install, but I think I’ll be wiping that soon and trying again.
Linux is just so foreign to me. But at least game mode does work well.
No they arent tho
Everyone complains about the 800p screen but its still got a better PPI (pixel per inch) than most gaming monitors due to the size of the panel.
Most people only complain because the LCD screen had bad color accuracy
@@RusticRonnieand even that was overblown
I think 800p is a nice sweet spot for the screen size. Even upping it to just 1080p would be a very minor difference in visual quality for a big hit in performance.
@@Voyajer. It's worse than the Nintendo switch LCD the color is pretty bad
@@The_MEMEphis I would think that most people if they were to just look at the LCD display and ask what their opinion of the image quality was without being told the actual specs, they would say "It looks fine."
The OLED though has 110% RGB color gamut and it's HDR 1000 capable. It's fantastic.
Love the fact that the deck allows you to emulate and does not require some elaborate hacking setup to do so. Bless this thing.
EmuDeck is almost too easy to set up. The SD emulation experience is pretty great.
Would you rather buy a Nintendo Switch, or a slightly bigger Switch, with a built in Wii, GameCube, PS3, Dreamcast, etc for $50 more? Not to mention having your whole Steam library of course
@@Espartanicaand the ability to sail the high sea.
If that is yout kink
@Repent-and-believe-in-Jesus1 Your religion is so weak you need to spam ads to keep it alive?
@@Espartanicadam bro no need to do him that dirty
A dankpods video a week keeps the depression weak
that and listening to Mr blue sky
No he was in Canada because he was in a video with LTT
@@Totallynotaboykissser?
Yes
@@Sothus2 Mr Night: 🖐
As someone who has been playing games on Linux since I made the switch back in 2008, Valve have been an absolute saviour. Things were getting progressively easier over the years, and Valve stepped up and turbocharged it. We've gone from "sure yeah it might work if you spend some time tinkering" to "yeah 90% of the time it'll just work straight away as long as there's no anticheat bullshit"
Long live Valve. Long live Gaben.
Seconding this! I was attempting to game on Linux back in the dark times, around 2000-2005 when there was only a handful of native releases available. Basically Quake 3, Neverwinter Nights, and...not much else. Now, basically everything I want to play runs in Proton on Steam or has a native client!
Same, been using Linux distros as my daily OSes since around 2010. It was amazing thing to witness over the years, that we went from "you have to manually configure your Wine prefix or find some specific old libraries for a source port to work" to just pressing "Install" in Steam/Lutris/Heroic and just play.
Mad isn't it, just how far things have come. You learn shit too. 14 years of Linux experience landed me a job as a sysadmin, with basic school leaver qualifications.
dog dont fanboy gaben does not know you like you are care about you all he wants is money...
@itsquiwi8780 mate, I don't even really buy games from Steam. I'm talking about the contributions Valve have made to Proton, which can be used without Steam.
1:58 - Not only do people not like this shit, it confuses old people. Microsoft should pay me for every time I have had to drive out to my dad's house to "fix" his PC because it was giving him this message an he was confused. People who do not understand windows do not see this window and think "Oh let me sit down and read it." They think, "Strange weird message I wasn't expecting, it must be broken."
EVEN VALVE MADE A NUGGET
First
YESS
Omg he is right 💀💀
@@Oompa_Loompa_guywait he is right
QQ
Mate, I've been loving your videos ever since I started watching you
But today
You introduced me to Snakey Bus. I've never heard of the game before, but as soon as I saw it in the video I just bought it on steam. I've been having an absolute blast with the game... genuinely, thank you so much, I love it. I've been playing it non stop for the past half hour and I can already say it's some of the most fun I've had on a game! I absolutely love it! Simple, straightforward and entertaining
I too have just learned of snakeybus and now I want to buy it, except it's nighttime so I'll resist and wait until tomorrow
same here!
Now they are available in Australia 😊
not till november mate
@@99snuff wake up babe its november now
@ wake my up on the 19th. Still unavailable
@@99snuff A day late, but.....
@@rouxgreasus got one mah bah
That space in the bottom of the case is for putting your charger into. I got the 512GB original model and the charger comes in a little draw-string bag you pop it into then slide it under that elastic band. It works surprisingly well.
yea same here, i also just ended up coiling up the cable and then the charging block sits beside the cable in the elastic band. I think i bought the 64 gb one so i didnt get a charger lol
Yeah, I used to keep it there in its eggbag, but now I opted for the Jsaux case because it's less bulky and takes less space in my backpack when I'm travelling with it. I still use the eggbag, but I mainly use it keep a USB C adapter to HDMI and USB A and a couple of extra Micro SDs because I bought separate ones for games and movies
My 64gb came with a charger...
@@No_True_Scotsman I guess that other guy was wrong, then. Perhaps a second hand unit or something.
@@No_True_Scotsman sorry lol. mine came with a charge. I didn’t get a quality egg bag for my charger like the other dude said he got
What a weird world it is where the paid option (Windows) has ads, yet the free one (Linux) doesn't. I can't buy a steam deck here either but as a Linux user I'm still getting all the benefits from Valve's efforts with Proton.
Honestly somehow after 3 months of linux experience (linux mint), I somehow feel like I am fighting with windows if I wanted to do a thing whereas in linux is like sure do it
Really liked that.
@@d3fury312With how bad and intrusive windows is getting now is perfect time to switch to Linux.
@@d3fury312 -Hey, you need to finish your Windows setup ! :D
-But i've been using it for months and it's working fine ?
-Do you want to log into an online account ?
-...no ?
-I SAID do you want an online account ? Yes, or yes but in 3 days ? :)
And this is when I switched. If I had known sooner honestly, I'd probably have jumped ship a couple years ago.
Linux is really as good as people say with this. It's... frictionless.
@@readyforlol the more linux gets recognition the more draw backs will be eliminated, the past few years are great examples of it, honestly window's situation is like internet Explorer they were good got the Monopoly in market but didn't improve anything instead made it worse, I just hope microsoft learn from it at least now and start from the starting to "remake" Windows otherwise their situation would be like internet Explorer.
@@d3fury312I've got a good desktop at home but when I'm on the move, I take with me my old laptop.
It was a good laptop 6+ years ago, now it's far from being a powerhouse, I installed Linux on it around a year ago (PopOS with a different desktop environment) and holy shit, I just love it.
The hardware isn't the snappiest ever but it runs better than windows 10, I can have it as barebone as I want or customise it to hell and back, and since it's another "easy to use" Linux distribution, I almost never had to use any commands, almost no issues.
And most of the games I want to play are working on it natively or work well enough with emulation, same for all the software I need.
Hey sort of random question, have you listened to "Toehider" before? They're one of my dad's all time favorite bands and I just found out today they're also Australian XD
I need to know... 🐈
Fun facts: It came with an egg bag for your charger so you can put it in the back where the elastic handle is and the case separates to reduce the physical size of it.
He got his From LTT, so a North American plug, Australia has a different plug. He probably doesn’t have the cable or the bag
are australian plugs really different O_o I have never been to Australia and know very little about that place, except that spiders can kill you. nearly everything in Australia can kill you. X_X@@RusticRonnie
@@RaxiazReduxso think of it like this, american plugs look like this: | |
aus plugs look like this: / \
@@MissJazz004 omg i love your comment, wonderful little ascii art!! :D
Linus probably lost it
You made my day DankPods, had an unfortunate car accident due to me having an epileptic seizure while driving. You always make my day, your the best!!
holy shit I hope you’re ok!
Here's to hoping you heal up all well and good!
Did you run over anyone?
@@robertinogochev3682TF kind of a question is that
Thanks everyone, I am so grateful I didn't hurt anyone or hurt myself too badly.
From the thumbnail I was worried you were going dislike the deck but was so happy after you started singing its praises. I love the deck so much it’s been an amazing experience and glad you were able to get your hands on one finally
Its such a crime that Valve refuses to sell the steam deck in Australia
And many other countries
It's hard to make the screen and controls function upside down.
It probably has to do with their extremely strict video games laws that they have to make sure they comply with before sale. Remember how long it took time to get L4D2 and how censored it was
@@edison700 from what I heard the product might not be reliable enough for Australian consumer laws? But it might be a whole load of bs, anyway I haven't experienced problems with my 64gb version.
Well, glad to tell you can sometimes become one of us, sincerely your northern Asian overcrowded neighbour :)
As an avid user of the Steam Deck, I am surprised at how much it let me do.
This thing carried me through the final year of my Music Degree, I legitimately mixed like 5 tracks on this thing and still use it for Music Creation (works wonders with a Scarlett Interface!).
Also recently upgraded it to a 2TB SSD (I have a base model one not an OLED). The amount of games I have on this installed is mental and I still have half of my storage left.
There were a lot of issues here and there, but for something that was designed to mainly just play Steam games, I am still impressed till this day.
Scarlett interfaces are sad on Windows, I use a solo 2nd gen and an AKG P220 for guitar recordings but since I'm lazy I also use that same setup for Discord VC and both the windows provided driver and the official focusrite drivers are trash, it's a meme at this point among my friends that my drivers get auto uninstalled or corrupted in the middle of a call and I have to manually uninstall them, reboot, reinstall them, reboot again and get back to our game or work collab. Meanwhile on Linux they just work out of the box, no set up necessary and they work perfectly, I refuse to use my scarlett solo on my windows machine now and it's permanently attached now to my Linux workstation lol
i LOVE mine. also music student and i couldn’t take my pc with me moving across the US for a new degree. this thing has been such a great sidekick and has entertained my roommate and i with emulated split screen. i considered upgrading to the OLED but i just can’t give up the little thing after how much i’ve upgraded on it (new ssd, matte protector, etc)
@@Zesuto3 God, I'm not the only way. This interface has been giving so much trouble recently. But they recently pushed an update in regards to high system load which seems to be working fine for now.
What are you guys using for a DAW on Linux?
You should really stick to OLED if you can, it drastically saves battery.
Thanks to the OLED release I was able to buy the LCD model that week with a 1tb sd card for $270.... I thought the "weak battery life" would bug me, but I've never actually run out of battery using it during downtime at work.
My biggest issue with the steam deck (both LCD and OLED) is the type C port is permanently soldered to the motherboard like a few inches away from the APU.... Literally everything else was swappable, but the thing that breaks just as often as the display on other consoles (Nintendo switch type C ports are almost as common as PS5 hdmi repairs in my shop for example).
Anyone that has ever done a switch type C repair: the deck type C is even more annoying to repair, this board requires a metric asston of heat to get going.
Valve should've given us a board that connects with a standard ribbon connector or gave us some kind of board that connects with pin-pad contact with screws to keep it aligned and solid.... better than risking bricking the entire unit because max temperature on your hot air station wasn't enough, you accidentally cooked the APU, low melt/heat got to other components and now you gotta make sure they're all good, and btw you lifted a couple pads time for the old scrape the PCB and tiny wire/lug trick.
$270 is insanely good. I bought mine off my friend with the 1tb SD expansion do he could upgrade to OLED for £300 ($310-340)
I'd 100% recommend getting a dock to go with it if you haven't one already, and valves dock is a very solid option but there are some other cheaper alternatives out there
As an alternative, people could just learn how to take proper care of their shit.
@@Deadguy2322forreal That isn't a real solution for parts subject to wear/tear like charging ports.... I just repaired a Moto G power that looks like our wholesale B+ phones (B+ is practically brand-new with minor scratches on the body from normal use) with a broken charge port.
Ports must be easily-replaceable. Especially if that port serves dual-purpose for the dock. Valve made everything else easily-replaceable, the type-c should've also been designed like this.
Also, people's are human and mistakes/accidents happen. I repair electronics and take obsessive care of my devices (after spending all day fixing things the last thing I want to do is fix my own stuff at home) and I still have to repair my stuff sometimes after an accident.
One of the unspoken best bits about the Deck is that it's a great emulation machine. Being able to play Timesplitters wherever/whenever you want is magical.
Ah, a fellow Timesplitters fan! First game I emulated on the deck was TS2. Almost ready for Future Perfect!
especially with the EmuDeck software, it's the most accessible emulation has ever been
@@hahasamian8010 absolutely! Plus, being able to play old N64 games with a controller made with human hands in mind is a game changer.
@TheyCallMeMrSchnappo I actually like the N64 controller well enough, but if you enjoy playing its games on new controllers that's great!
The Deck is the only reason I finally got around to finishing every branch of the fan-translated Japanese release of Ace Combat 3. Janking a controller into a laptop just wasn't doin' it.
Another thing I really respect Valve for is that they made a video on how to take it apart and repair it as well.
They're literally partnered with iFixit for replacement parts and repair guides. Valve has done everything right with this device.
They sell extra parts on iFixit as well
@@WiiManElite you can upgrade the RAM if you can do BGA soldering and BIOS patching and reflashing, which not many people can do
it's almost like the people blindly parroting 'buh ereyboody copies da appl' are just lazy because there have always been repairable products from good companies and companies just make whatever people buy.
@@formbiyou still can do it though
Idk if anyone has mentioned this yet but
The steam deck S M E L L that comes out the fan hole
So nice 👌🏼
It really is! I too can't stop sniffing the deck's hole
Pause
I've heard people say it's gross but like...no? It's weirdly comforting lmao.
Its so amazing like aughaasghhhhfdgsnos
It's the new electronic smell, I always sniff all my new purchases, so addicting xD
they told ppl to not sniff it.. like guys r u OK?
Hard cases are so underrated. Wish more companies use em
Agreed. I jumped at the opportunity as soon as dbrand released the killswitch for steam deck cause I wanted something that just works better
That's apparently asking for waaayyyy too much in this economy where apparently phone companies aren't giving out chargers to "save the environment" when they don't even offer any type of electronic recycling information. Just "buy one".
I bought one near Thanksgiving, and my current living situation being miserable, this really kept me feeling better. I can play essentially my entire 400+ game library on the go, use the desktop for my apps that I need for 3D printing to music to light video editing (with a keyboard and mouse), it's been a nonstop workhorse and genuinely a blast to be able play my games again while I'm away from my main PC. I'm glad you like yours.
Were glad even if we dont have steamdeck, linux is being shown love ❤
Gang felt that my friend. Moved into a van due to insane rent cost to save for a home and I got an Ally to still be able to play games. Super satisfied with my purchase. I'm really happy there's portable options for those of us who can't have full gaming computers due to practicality.
Linux sucks!@@Omega-mr1jg
This is the exact reason I switched over to Linux for my main PC, not having to deal with all the bullshit Microsoft is trying to rope you into with the AI copilot, news sidebar, ads in the start menu and search, etc. is fantastic.
I fully agree with this. I recently installed Linux on a backup disk connected to my pc and it is now my go-to system for most things. It just works better and I don’t have to deal with Microsoft bs. Luckily my windows install is one of the oldest versions of windows 11(21h2), and I refuse to upgrade, so I don’t have to deal with relearning things as much. But I still have to deal with Microsoft being, well… Microsoft
Windows 11 is pure garbage and my job won't listen to me, they just upgraded all the laptops to 11 for no reason.
To be fair, you can disable the news sidebar, online functionality in the search bar, and AI co-pilot.
I run Windows 11 and don't have any of them.
It takes maybe 10 minutes of Googling.
i cant look at Windows interface, its so messed up and looks dated af
@@Wilus0 I would not say that windows looks dated since it looks like every other mainstream flat bland UI, But I defiantly agree that the interface is so messed up with the crappy settings menu half taking from control panel and stuff like that. Windows 7, XP and even 9x looked way better.
Personally I love how valve made the handheld market more accessible for people who willing to take it to another level. Gotta give them props for hitting it out of the park.
Edit: sorry I missed this point, I meant by accesible in terms of platforms to play your games on that’s normally expensive on others. But a good counterpoint is the regions. As much as the steam deck isn’t available for everyone, it’s a fair bet for valve to start off slowly until they’re sure it’s for everybody. They learned their mistakes from the steam controller or the steam game console; they’re giving the deck the best chance at being successful.
I agree, problem? It's not available for purchase everywhere via Steam/Valve which is the sad part.
Given how widely used Steam is as a hosting platform for games these days, them making a handheld version of it was always going to be a hit. I'm glad to see that they didn't fumble that and understood the assignment.
maybe a little less accessible to aussies
As long as youre not Australian
"The steam deck is not available in your region".
Yes accessible.
I was so happy when I saw the Steam Deck package arrive at my house. It comes in a plain looking cardboard box with only the steamdeck logo and portal cube hinting at what it is. That's awesome because it doesn't look like something worth stealing. Then when you open it there's just a cardboard insert, the deck in it's case, and the charger.
Valve did the smart thing and instead of buying fancy packaging, they took that money and bought the cases instead and used that as packing material which I would way rather take than a fancy box.
PS: That empty spot in the case is for the original charger which it holds just fine.
Yea i really think it was a genius move to have the hard case be the packaging for the shipping.
I originally came to this channel for the iPod content but after all these years I keep coming back to it because of all the great reviews and videos
I really hope the Steam Deck comes out in Australia soon, but this also reminds me of how ahead of its time the vita was. I swear I was like one of 12 people in Australia that bought the thing, but it still feels so good to use
I've hard my Vita for around five years now and I absolutely love it. I've got a sweet handgrip on mine, and looking for a good decal to put over it.
The only complaint I can think of (and its just a nitpick) is that the screen is kind of small, at least compared to newer handhelds that have come after it.
But yeah the Vita deserves a lot of love, and a lot of credit for still being a great handheld even after the long amount of time it's been since it first came out.
The Vita deserved better. Sony kind of neglected it.
They should not have cancelled the Vita over the popularity of smartphone games at that time. Now they're so far behind on the handheld segment of the market
im solidly sure valve partnered with an asian company to get shipping and reselling done for this side of the planet
i loved my vita but sony killed it by being giant idiotheads with the memorycard prices...
I'm glad to have purchased the steam deck made gaming with 2 kids and busy lives much easier.
The instant wake and ability just jump straight back into what you were previously playing is amazing especially when you get asked to help out with something. Ready and waiting when you're done.
5:30 Linux gaming on desktop is a very real thing. Any game you can run on a steam deck you can run on a Linux desktop since they both use Steam Proton. Steam OS itself is even available on desktop by using HoloISO, although you could install any arch based system with KDE and get pretty much the same experience using Steam's big picture mode.
Normally the Steamdeck actually comes with a mesh draw stringbag to put the charger and other stuff in. Then you just put that in the 'dead wasted space' area and the elastic keeps it from falling out. Work great for keeping the charger, cable, and an external SSD imo.
it didn't come with a bag to put the charger in for me
It only does if you buy the most expensive model, the others don’t
Watching Wade explain why the hard case is so good at 8:09 while his Rocket League team suffers in the background is too good
The Linus peeps were cool to do that. I have a normal 1st gen Steam Deck and the screen is great as it is. You'll love this one.
The empty area on the back of the Deck's case is actually meant for the charger to fit into
Ltt kept it lol
woah i never knew this ty
HOLY SHIT RLLY? Thank you!
This message is so important!
@@lividsphincter4098 Not like it'd do him any good, they don't use NEMA plugs in AUS.
4:01 FINALLY the only person I have ever heard of that likes the obviously superior Wii U controller layout
I have 2 Wii Us, long story short, I broke the gamepad on my first Wii U and my mother and I bought a bundled used Wii U and Gamepad from a bookstore near us just to get the replacement gamepad. Honestly I would much rather use an Xbox style controller over the Gamepad, those action and trigger buttons on the gamepad feel weird.
Who's here after they released it in Australia?
Microsoft has been riding high on its high market share, and is adding more and more ads and bloat… thank god the steam deck choose linux, it existing has greatly increased game support for Linux desktops too. And I find KDE and Linux in general (by the steam deck’s presence?) has improved, stabilised, and is now generally a much better, more stable OS than a couple of years ago.
The Steam Deck has been absolutely phenomenal for playing games on my backlog.
But now I have the problem where I keep buying games to play on the Steam Deck... Well played Valve
the biggest benefit for myself is being able to play almost all of the latest game without paying a shit ton of money. For example, the old laptop I have has worse performance than deck, but it cost around 1.2k at the time... basically all gaming laptops are a huge scam. 😬
Same
@@spugelo359the steam deck is cheap because it's subsidized by steam. If other companies had their own game stores they'd be willing to drop their prices on cheaper gaming PCs
That's realistically the only way they can sell the deck for that price.
For that version of the case that comes with the 1tb version, the internal liner is just velcro’d in, so you can take off the outer section if you want to have a slimmer case profile.
Crazy timing cause i just got my own Steam Deck recently (i got LCD tho, oop), and I love it so far. The controls they crammed in is what I like the most, letting me get really wacky with how i play games when i feel like it. Im also realizing how many steam games i owned but never touched and now im gonna easily go through them.
Main takeaway from this video: Local Aussie man becomes infatuated with Snakebus (and the Steam Deck is pretty freakin sweet)
well, the sad part is that valve refuses to sell them the steam deck to Australians and Linux can run windows games faster through emulation then windows can run games native. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
and you wonder why windows is losing market share well duh when this is the reality of Linux gaming with windows games makes me fear what is possible with Linux games should a triple a dev makes a great game to use all the power of Linux.
@@SaraMorgan-ym6uesomeone here in the comments mentioned there's a place where they resell the deck, including the new oled version
@@imgladnotu9527 I can't seem to find the comment, what is the name of such place?
@@andigaming1991 kogan
he literally turned into Rick Sanchez for a second right there 😭 6:20
Linux gamer here (not a steam deck! Ryzen 1600/GTX1060). Your points about Windows are one of the reasons why I quit windows and moved to Kubuntu. It's so nice to have a machine that just *is* and isn't constantly trying to shove some crap down your face for money and attention. It's come leaps and bounds from the dark days. I remember trying to get OpenBVE rolling on Ubuntu 12.04 and having hell on earth trying to get it to even launch. Now everything from Factorio to Just Cause 3 just *boink* works! I'll admit I am lucky in that most of what I play is either single player or co-op so I don't have to contend with anti-cheat as much, but even so, it's good!
Fellow Linux gamer reporting in!
Running Arch (btw) since 2021.
(Ryzen 5600/RTX 3090)
im not even an Arch user anymore but you would benefit a LOT from moving to Arch due to software availability and readiness
Same! I switched to Linux full-time a few years ago, and it's improved so much in such a short period of time. 5900x/6900xt on Fedora in my case.
EndeavourOS user (used to be on Arch)
Ryzen 5800X and RX6800XT
Love being able to play RDR2 so smoothly
Zorin 17 user here, have been Linux gaming for ages but always with a W10 partition as a backup. Proton (both 8 and experimental) has become so rock stable and fast that I deleted it and moved my entire Steam catalog to Zorin. I'm not sure what kind of wizardry Valve is using but RDR2 actually runs slightly faster under Linux/Proton than under W10. Ryzen 7600X/RX 6750 XT absolutely flies under Linux thanks to AMD's really solid Linux support.
It's funny to hear you say "only a matter of time" about Linux desktop gaming. It's here! It's now! Not everything works perfectly, but anything that works on the steam deck & more work on desktop Linux. It's wild to see and things are only getting better.
That means that Linux sucks and you're delusional. Everything just works on Windows, why do you want to leave a place where everything works?
How come I didn't know about this kick ass aussie tech channel? How come not? Subbed man, love this stuff.
YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP BAYBEEE
But seriously as a Linux gamer its so nice to see more support and recognition
I am so happy Linux is almost on par with Windows when it comes to gaming. Windows has been getting worse since 8.
@@TSL73 Yeah honestly its super rare something doesn't work for me. Its only ever anti-cheat, because that publisher decided windows only
I got a refurbished one from Valve for nearly half off when they announced the OLED model. A 512GB one for nearly the original MSRB price for the 64GB model, and it looks like a brand new model and runs like one.
I personally can't live without trackpads after growing accustom to them on Steam Deck, as I feel it truly makes up for mouse control on a handheld device. That's why I really like the Steam Deck, and I'm hoping I can still get the OLED model in some fashion. And hopefully modified with extra storage, since that's how I got my Steam Deck and it was totally worth it!
How are they for aiming in first person shooters.
@@mitchjames9350I’m not the person you asked but I personally like them a lot. I have the old steam controller and i actually prefer it for destiny over m+k. Same goes with my steam deck
@@mitchjames9350Gyro features. :)
7:00 You own a modern computer to play old games!?
Me: It's a peaceful life.
the control scheme on the deck looks so awkward but feels so comfortable
People scoff at the touchpads all the time, but once they play something that'd require a mouse,
they just *get it.* Valve were very thoughtful when designing the Steam Controller, and thus, the Deck
@@RadikAlice Frankly I am scoffing at any "handheld PC" that doesn't have this layout because I don't understand how you comfortably navigate a desktop environment without em
So many things got touted as "Steam Deck killer!!" but missed that most important part: actually being usable as a handheld PC
@@RadikAlice Valve figured out the touchpads since the Steam controller, shame its been discontinued.
@@hahasamian8010 Not to mention the terrible software, even besides Windows sucking at this since forever
The fact that 34 out of the 43 games in my Steam library work on Linux either straight out of the box or with minimal tweaking is really impressive and a testament to just how good Linux gaming is getting. Even a couple years ago, you’d have been lucky if half of your games would work and now it’s nearly 80%!
Which ones don’t work?
@@flimtok Moinly a couple online games that haven’t enabled anti-cheat fixes like Destiny 2 and The Crew 2. Also RaceRoom is a pain in the rear to get my racing wheel working with, despite the game running fine with only a couple easy tweaks.
Most everything else either works straight away or at most requires pasting a command in the Launch Options or switching Proton versions.
43 games 😂 you are a very healthy person. I've got like 6 billion and I don't touch em
@@therealwhite I know exactly what you’re talking about…
@@therealwhite Probably not as healthy as you’d think. I grew up playing consoles so I only started getting PC games in the past couple years.
The Steam Deck was one of those rare instances where I decided to jump into a first gen tech product (I pre-ordered the 256GB within minutes of them going live back in 2021) and it's one of those rare moments I'm so happy I did and almost regret not going for the top model.
Weirdly happy about the shoutout to the Wii U controls, I always liked the Wii U gamepad's layout even though it feels like a prototype or a toy compared to the weight of the switch, the layout is so comfy to use. I like the Wii U pro controller for the same reason. It's kind of a shame the switch didn't stick to that layout. My Wii U is unhappy currently but man I still go back and play zelda games on it all the time. It's such a great little console for just playing through a bunch of the older Zelda titles. I've heard rumors you can get it to play gamecube games too.
I never noticed that the wii u was even different. I guess nintendo did something right with that.
I think they changed the layout so people don't confuse it with the Wii U like it happened before, also so when you detached the joy cons to get a normal layout, but the gamepad was really comfortable, specially to create levels in mario maker
Wii u controller layout is great until you try to claw grip it playing souls games, I sold my steam deck because Elden Ring is miserable on it
Maybe that's Soul's fault.
Pretty sure its possible to play gamecube games on the wii u if you mod it, I'd reccomend doing it. Its a pretty simple process, given if you are familiar with some computer stuff (even then you dont need to be a computer genius)
Steam will directly sell it in Australia in November 2024.
I also noticed that this thing has a great sound chip! Somehow it's better than on all the PCs I ever used, and it's honestly surprising.
this is because valve does not earn much from steamdeck, in fact the basic models are sold almost at a loss. It is a product made "because they can" with attention to detail
That’s because PCs have universally awful sound chips that are also surrounded by masses of interference. You should always use an external DAC, and completely isolate it from the PC (optical TOSLINK does the trick at the cost of introducing some jitter).
The Steam Deck might also be full of other electronics, but it doesn’t have a 1000W AC power supply and a 400W graphics card with thousands of cores each sat a few inches from the DAC. It’s still good of Valve to have bothered putting in good sound hardware, since reviewers never bother to mention it. You’d think they all have an extra pair of eyes instead of ears for how much graphics get talked about while sound is never mentioned.
@@ChrisStoneinator An optical connection for PC audio is completely obsolete these days and will actually limit your options more than it helps. Any USB DAC that wasn't fished out of the bargain bin is well enough isolated that it won't introduce any noise from the PC to the actual output signal.
Fully agreed, my Schiit Fulla 2 for my PC still sounds a little better than the Deck, but the Deck easily beats all built in audio circuits on my PCs, laptops, and phones.
I loved how you filmed this. Watching you play games on the Steam deck while still getting to see you emote with your hands is just different and refreshing compared to how everyone else does their game play VODs
got a 64gb steam deck last year via Kogan, upgraded the ssd to a terrabyte, and havent looked back basically. now using it as my main gaming rig, with a keyboard, mouse, monitor and a 8bitdo ultimate controller
DankPods giggling like a child while playing Snakey Bus gives me life
@DankPods
8:27
There is supposed to be a soft pouch there that can be used to store stuff like earbuds, flash drives, micro-sd, and anything else. The pouch is the size of the entire crevice that you see. It is possible that when you bought yours from LTT, they left out that pouch accidently.
my 512gb oled didnt come with one either. maybe the limited edition version has it, but the standard version (which dankpods has) doesnt.
@@bmz4 Google 'Steam Deck Case - 512GB', there's a steam news webpage where Valve shows everything that's included with the case.
Edit: Doing more research. It seems that there were two models of carrying cases. One with a removable liner and one without. The removal liner was offered for 1 TB OLED and 512 GB LCD (prior to OLED launch) and has the pouch. I'm inclined to think that LTT would sell the higher end model to Dankpods but I could be wrong.
@@dvtye3378 those are images of the LCD steam deck, the 512gb model of the LCD deck is the most expensive, so it has an exclusive case. the 512gb OLED has its own case with a orange logo and no pouch, and since its the cheapest OLED it doesnt have the better case of the 1tb/LE OLED
watching this on my steam deck hooked up to my living room tv. Absolutely love it so much! Great nugget man!
Hey hope you and Frank had a good Christmas with fun and happiness. Love your content, keep doing what you're doing :)
I’ve had my LCD steam deck for over a year now, I’ve loved it and most of my favorite games of all time were solely played on it, despite having a more powerful pc. I keep coming back because of how great the deck is to use anywhere
The outter shell and intershell also seperates on that carry case so that you have a light weight shell to use that doesn't have the "wasted space", which someone pointed out is for storing your power brick. Using the inner case will mean that you have to store the cable seperately, but it gives you the flexibility to choose which is nice.
Green and yellow means it will run fine. The yellow just means there might be some formatting issues like small font or weird controls that you may have to configure. The white circle with a line through it is the one that means that they aren’t sure if it runs but tbh in my experience most of those will run too. The only ones that don’t run seem to be the call of duty’s and other games that require anti cheat for online play.
That thumbnail basically just describes Australia, nothing gets shipped anymore
The Steam Deck will soon be avalible in Australia some time in Novbember!
More than the Deck, I'm all in on Linux finally going somewhat "mainstream", especially in the gaming realm. Good to see.
Android has entered the chat.
Android has a HEAVILY modified Linux kernel, while SteamOS is just a tweaked Arch. There's a huge difference, mate! @@miketran4289
@@miketran4289 And it sucks
I absolutely love my Steam Deck. So happy you were able to get one! Very nice of LMG to help you out.
I happily own a Steam Deck og from the first shipping batch, and I'm so proud of how much it has improved!
It's ridiculous how unpolished most of the more powerful systems trying to compete with the steam deck are, it's not even close.
They all seem to miss that beefy hardware isn't everything, in fact.
Hardly matters if the software is crap, because that's what you _actually_ use
shout out to valve for creating the steam deck
shout out to your mum for creating you.
shout out to linus torvalds for creating linux
shoutouts to Abe Buton for creating the A button
Shout-out to you for being cool
huge shout out to benjamin franklin for inventing electricity
They not only just used Wine to create a translation layer for ANY game that isn’t supported, it’ll just allow you try run it regardless. But they actually created their own bespoke version of Wine called Proton, which is way more powerful especially for gaming. Not only that, but if you add third-party Windows software to your steam library, it’ll even allow you to run it thru proton lmao.
Valve are one of the biggest contributors to the Arch Linux distro, to the point where they’re now helping to back major projects for the operating system in the name of gaming, and they hardly advertise this anywhere. The entire reason we even have any degree of HDR on Linux AT ALL is because of Valve.
I don’t think any company in existence is kind or consumer-friendly, but Valve is one of the only exceptions to that for me.
ProtonDB is really good for deck compatibility checking, it's usually more thorough than Valve's.
+1 to this - Valve will sometimes list a game as untested or incompatible out of the box, but ProtonDB will often list reliable patches or command flags.
DeckyLoader is one heck of a gateway. Once you use that, you can’t go back.
I think this is probably the first (and only) console to date that I've bought twice - once when the system first came out I preordered it and received it almost an entire year later. And then this year when the OLED came out I got the 1 TB Limited Edition model. Haven't looked back since. The newest one is heeps better. Welcome to the Club, Dank
Im so happy to find another WiiU controller configuration enjoyer
I feel validated
For the empty cavity in the back of the case, there are some 3d prints to hold the charging brick and cable so it becomes useful
i've been daily driving my steam deck since i first got it the summer of last year and this is the single best gaming purchase i've ever gotten. almost 600 hours into risk of rain 2 exclusively on the deck and who knows how many in my other games. hoping to get an oled soon, i'm so jealous of the upgraded screen
It's a bigger upgrade than you might think. The bigger display is really noticable if you played on the deck LCD a while before moving to the OLED. And the difference between the OLED display and the LCD display showing the same scene in the same game is monumental.
That "dead space" on the case you mentioned is where I put the little drawstring bag that came with it (I use it for my charging cable mostly). They must not have given you one when you bought it.
he had to essentially shake another youtuber down to get this one so it makes sense
8:26 There's a 3D printable model for a storage compartment that you could use the empty space of the Steamdeck's case for. Normally its made to hold the charger in there instead of the Egg bag they provide but I'm pretty sure there's a version to just hold anything in place.
(4:40) But that's the PlayStation controls, not Wii U controls. Dpad and face buttons top left and right, with the sticks diagonally down (although just slightly down).
if you're comfortable using the desktop mode I would highly recommend at least giving linux a go on your main PC, you can even install it on a separate drive so that you don't have to worry about your windows system. I got fed up with windows a few years ago and tried linux instead and I haven't looked back, it is incredible. I would recommend going with either Linux Mint or Pop!_OS (Mint has a UI closer to windows and Pop has one closer to mac, but they both run on the same linux fork) as they are both extremely user-friendly and easy to use, and if you use Nvidia GPUs Pop OS can automatically set up the drivers etc. (Nvidia doesn't like linux for some reason, with AMD and intel the drivers auto-install and update on nearly every linux distribution). Proton and Wine have come such an incredibly long way with gameplay compatibility that I no longer have to check if a game is compatible with linux because I'm 99% sure it'll work (I mainly play singleplayer games so I don't have to deal with anticheat, YMMV).
Pro tip. You can 3d print a spool for the charge cable to fit itself empty space. And it can hold sd cards and ear buds (ok you just kinda crap them in there there isn't one to put them in really nice)
I was really digging you talking controllers. When you brought up the Wii U I half expected Scott The Woz to bust in
HEY ALL, SCOTT HERE
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! (steamdeck is comming to australia)
I forget about how nice the Wii U GamePad is. I wouldn't want to rock it on every game but I really do like that thing. Very comfy.
I'm Australian and own the original 64gb Steam Deck. The amount of hoops and hurdles I had to go through just to purchase it and ship it over here were crazy. You need a VPN, USA reshipper, and a virtual USA credit card just to get it over in Australia. Absolutely love it though it was 100% worth it.
Now if only Ausies can embrace technology so they can unlock the tech achievement allowing access to certain products such as the Steam Deck for example.
😂😂 come here then it’s better
Could you explain what you mean by us not embracing technology?.@@S1RLANC3
@@S1RLANC3 nah pretty sure valve is refusing to sell to Australians is because our gov took them to court of steam not offering refunds. we can't get any valve hardware in oz
For Australians the main method is to have it sent to an American Address and afterwards shipped or flown to Australia. Theres a couple of services online which their main business model is that. Try something far cheaper 1st to try out the services 1st.
Yeah, I've run out of the Steam Deck for about a year now, after upgrading the in-game SSD. It's been a blast having it portable, but having it plugged into the dock and having it practically be a desktop with keyboard and mouse, sometimes even an external monitor + harddrive has been amazing.
Steam/Valve not selling to Australia is still the most incredible pain, especially towards the deck and the index. In the process of a US based friend sending me an index cable because I don't trust the ones on Amazon/Ebay
The reason it took so long for the steam deck to arrive in Australia was because valve was still salty at the Australian government for forcing steam to have a refund policy 😂
I've not upgraded to Windows 11, still on 10. It's nice you can use software to emulate the older start menus but that really should just be an option you can turn on. As for the Steam Deck, they're awesome. My favourite gaming brick so far.
9:55 It still has LTT inventory sticker on it lol
Ohh yes😂
As someone who just joined the smartphone world over the last two years, I was not prepared for the avalanche of advertisements that would be thrown my way. People just accept this as normal, too! No matter how many notifications I disable, no matter how many things I block, there's always more trash and sludge waiting for me. Idiocracy really was a documentary, man.
Finally, a steam deck review! Bet this is gonna be good!
It’s not a review, just a user perspective feedback
@@UnderEusame thing
@@JackKrivan No, it isn’t.
Where are the benchmarks? Where is the Desktop mode walkthrough? Where are the distro details? Specs? Battery life tests?
@@UnderEu look out bois, we got a tough guy here! you do know that not everyone cares about those details right? all thats required for a review to be a review is a simple, it gud or it bad. anyone watching dank pods are pretty capable of figuring all that extra crap out themselves afterwards. also, maybe people wont include those details because of the millions of other videos breaking the thing down both figuratively and literally :3 its a beaten horse my guy.
It's still not a review lol
My dad sold his steam deck on Christmas eve through FB marketplace and we thought they weren't being serious becuase their location on their facebook profile was Australia and we are in the UK. Turns out they were looking for one whilst over for the holidays! So I had to watch this video because of that 😂
First class aussie bait, mate
omg thank you for the snakeybus shoutout! I love the game and maybe if more ppl are playing it the dev will finally give it good controller support lol
Valve is really good at creating input devices and schemes. My absolute favorite controller (for PC games at least) is the steam controller (basically a deck, though it’s inverse Xbox and missing a right stick, dpad, and only has one grip button per side.) I recently tried to play half life two with it and the control scheme is damn near perfect, just missing a little bit of qol functionality due to lack of buttons (like having to control vehicles acceleration and steering with just the left stick, but I fixed that through reconfiguring). It’s also incredibly durable and comfortable. I can only imagine the deck is even better.
Shame a patent troll is part of why it hasn't been available in so long, deserves more love
And yes they are
@@RadikAliceI didn't know about the patent troll, I'd just assumed they put it on the backburner and now that the Steam Deck is such a success, hopefully that doesn't get in the way of them making a Steam Controller successor that puts the best aspects of Steam Deck's controls into a great big gamepad.