You do realize that Reddit has become a place where people go in general to get more into things? And I literally just mentioned a neurological disease… fun fact, I’m starting to drool a lot lately uncontrollably.

You seem more upset that I’m criticizing Valve then realizing that “yeah, Valve even phased out the model themselves, if it was about enthusiasts, they would’ve kept it in stock at a lower price”

The whole point of the 64gb deck was to avoid having an expensive starting point, you all decided to bring the narrative to it that it’s for ✨enthusiasts✨when that’s hardly a decent sized market at all.

And sorry for having valid criticism about Linux? It’s still not there yet, and without going to the terminal you can’t do certain things still. The Discover store saves stuff on internal storage whether you like it or not and in my case, inefficiently installed files for software when that’s not a problem in Windows and MacOS

The community can’t be like “yeah! Valve is improving Linux!” then get upset that it’s not perfect to some people… what the fuck are they improving if there isn’t problems? The fact that you’re getting all weird and triggered by it makes me done here, clearly this is a biased conversation and you lack the understanding to try to view things outside of your established opinions.

I bought it because of misinformation, I didn’t even know they just stuck a 64gb ssd in there because someone told me it was on the board, and with all the “just get the 64gb deck and upgrade it” posts and replies I got swayed into doing it. I can’t really blame myself when life just happens, it’s not like I snapped my fingers and activated some neurological disease that made my lower half lose feeling after buying the Deck.

My fault or not, nothing changes that it was pretty stupid to come out with to begin with. It’s wasteful if that was the expectation for people, what would I even be able to do with a 64gb 2230 ssd after I take it out? I buy Apple products, but even I will be like “wtf Apple” if they announce more 64gb base iPads and iPad Airs. 128gb min would have been great on a device that still kinda suffers from being based on Linux, storage wise.

I don’t get why people defend it, someone even told me something wrong and that it was a chip on the board. I bought it with the assumption I could just stick a drive in whenever and won’t need to really need to do transfers or anything. I also got told that just using an SD card was perfectly fine… they didn’t mention anything about how much storage gets eaten up. A 64GB emmc chip for system memory just made sense, it’s been done before. But I kept seeing it everywhere on here; “just buy the 64GB model and upgrade it” “you’re wasting money buying higher tiers”

It was during a time before I stopped paying so much attention to what I read on Reddit. Lately I’ve been kinda realizing that a lot of people on here just genuinely lack the ability to understand others and downvote or bully anyone that isn’t on the same page about topics. One time I made a comment for fun, talking about how cool it would be if PC handhelds were based on ARM chips if an industry shift to ARM happens and it ended with an argument with me trying to explain that I wasn’t being serious and I just wanted to have fun conversations and not get into it about architectures and other stuff. Got heavily downvoted until people came in to defend me and call them out for acting like a dick.

Clearly I’m just too casual for this sub, when I looked up videos before things went to shit and a drive was in my cart, I was genuinely upset to find out there’s just a 64gb ssd in there. Even saying it sounds kinda ridiculous, 128gb base would’ve been at least useable

I’m glad someone understands that it’s a difficult situation, I got downvoted but yeah, I can’t just go out and buy more storage. I have to catch up on bills, get help for my health, take my cat to a vet, fix my car that broken down, so many things went wrong at once. I did a factory reset to fix the issue going on with Discover store (my games are on my SD card so I just had to reinstall decky plugins and I’m back to normal)

I’ll just not do anything extraordinary. It’ll just stay as my basic Steam Console, no delisted games, no emulation, no apps.

I mean the point of the Steam Deck is for Valve to have a console. It’s why it has a more console dominant experience.

The 64gb is bad considering that if anyone with less technical experience as me was in the same situation would probably be more frustrated. I get this sub is all about tweaking and customization, but I wanted a handheld console to play more intensive games than my switch and if people want the Steam Deck to be popular, it shouldn’t even be expected for the customer to open the device up and upgrade it just to have a good experience. Subs like this lose sight that the average consumer doesn’t want to deal with stuff like this.

I have a Steam Deck and a Switch and even I feel like that’s a bit much. I don’t get it either. I mean hell, I’d get a big enough SSD to have Windows and SteamOS before I go out and buy a whole more expensive device just for Windows games

I’m only caseless because I have Apple care. I got a crack, but I’ll just get it replaced before I trade it in for a 16 pro max.

Caseless and no insurance is wild though, AC+ is the golden excuse to go caseless

You gotta justify spending money by blindly being loyal to whatever corporation/product you invested in.

Like how I can’t be critical about Android without a ton of Apple sheep comments. Bro I’m probably about to switch to a dumb phone with how bad the internet is getting, I can’t be neutral?

I’m probably going to sell/trade my Deck for it.

I got the 64gb model and been dealing with that issue, I’m like right by my router but my Steam Deck still struggles to hold a connection for downloads and has artifacts while streaming games from my PC, plus I genuinely love OLED. I almost didn’t get a Deck in the first place because it wasn’t OLED, but I didn’t feel like saving nearly a $1000 on a device I didn’t know would fit my wants and needs.

Hell I’m fine with not getting an eventual Steam Deck 2 for a while after it comes out, I don’t like using LCDs so much that my iPad/Macbook Air is pretty much only used for artwork with little media consumption.

Ah yes, the next FFXIV. The game that spawned from FFXI which was a failure that they poured a ton of time and effort into reshaping.

Actually that seems to be the goal nowadays, nvm. Come out with a broken messes, pour time and money into fixing it if it has the chance to be successful, if not then have it slowly die off from obscurity as you make the next broken mess, repeat.

Just that what made FFXIV, No Man Sky, and Cyberpunk 2077 work, is that they actually put effort into making a fun, stable game to make up for it. Not fix some bugs and ask for more micro transactions.

I don’t see Apple going too deep into generative work considering the current murky legalities so I wonder how they’re going to do it in their Apple way.