Edit: I meant to say a GAMING PC in the title

I feel like im in such the minority here, which isn’t bad. I’ve never had a “gaming” PC. I saved up and bought a MacBook laptop for college years ago. The only time I would game on a PC would have been coolmath.com back in the computer lab days. I’ve been a console boy my whole life. I play on PS only, but wanted something to emulate old games and play some AAA titles portablely. I picked up a Switch OLED about 7 months ago, but between the high cost of nearly all games and how restrictive it feels, I wanted more.

All of this is so foreign to me. I’ve played emulators on my phone before, but that’s about my extent of knowledge. Getting a SD and seeing things mentioned like “Proton” and “TDP” sounds like a foreign language to me, lol.

I’m learning, slowly. I’ve got Emudeck installed and I’ve got a decent understand of Desktop mode. I’m not even 30 but I sound like an old man. How many of you are like me? I’ve learned many things only due to owning a Steam Deck!

  • Sir_BaxBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I was always a PC gamer and a big fan of portable gaming so I own now about 8-9 years old gaming laptop (when was GTX980m released?) and also Nintendo handhelds.

    Deck was announced in a perfect time when I was beginning to think about laptop upgrade so I bought the deck instead. Funnily, my old laptop can still run the games a bit better but Deck is just more comfy.

    I still think of a laptop upgrade mostly because I’d also like to get into VR gaming but as a fan of portable gaming I’m satisfied with the Deck performance for now.