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!
You can pretty much use the game deck rating based on your experience with a PC, platinum rated games no experience and down from there.
As an experienced PC gamer I’ve never bothered with TDP and you pretty much ignore that for every game.
in terms of Proton unfortunately its something you will have to interact with… my advice, if you are considering buying a game, check protondb first it will let you know if there is anything to worry about