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!

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    I’ve been doing PC gaming for my whole life (I am also almost 29 yo, so under 30) on Windows desktops or laptops (gaming ones). Never had a console in my life except the ps2 when i was a kid (my brother’s ps2). But I can assure you I had to learn quite much of stuff anyway since Linux PCs are quite different. This said if you’re new to PC gaming you can just buy everything on Steam and you’re good to go. Instead I have bunch of stuff on other launchers (because on Windows I don’t mind) and I had to go through some youtube guides to get them working nicely on the Deck. But once it’s done once it’s done forever! so I can now keep staying in gaming mode except if I want to install some more games from battle.net or Ubisoft (with Epic, GOG and Amazon I can use Heroic directly from gaming mode). But I installed some and I will be good for a while