I’ve noticed that as well, it seems title dependent but some games are a trash fire with vsync and are butter smooth with no other changes but vsync disabled. I guess with the ridiculous amount of translation going on (proton, dxvk, etc) it makes sense that something would end up titanically borked here and there.

I changed it from Optimus to dkms and that helped a ton, seems there might still be a microlag I can see every 3-5 seconds but it’s barely noticable. For most of the games I play I can deal with this for now.

Trying that now

Performance on almost any OS comes down to 2 things: driver support, and OS optimization. Windows uses a shitload of resources at idle and it just gets worse from there, but it’s the first stop for driver support.

Linux has been getting vastly better with driver support and third party translation layers, a lot of this being driven by Valve and various efforts related to valve (proton for instance) but it’s also much more optimized. The places where Linux folks will say it’s unoptimized is still much more clean and fast than windows, and as such you get a weird seesaw of “this” not working or working worse, and “that” working better that averages out to “same or better, when it works”.

Steam Deck is getting VRR

That is a symptom of how the client works and why I am a massive advocate for valve rewriting the fucking client. As it stands, the client is literally the chrome browser with some baked in addons and is fucking trash, Valves top tier service aside.

Not really, other than having a dog shit touch pad for the rare occasion you need one for a few seconds. That and the triggers as others have said, but I personally recommend almost anything else, the battery life is a joke. Something like 6-8 hours tops in my experience. The 8BitDo Ultimate wireless is good, I have that too and much prefer it, idk how long the battery lasts but I’ve had it a year and have only charged it once for roughly 40 hours of game time.

I’m selling mine. It’s mint condition, 1tb SSD+1 TB micro SD, official dock, carrying case, all cords, and your choice of a dualsense or 8bitdo ultimate wireless controller. I’m thinking $900, you know, cause it’s all original. No mods, no OC, don’t low-ball me, I know what I got.

Gobbless.

Thank fuck they are getting rid of the damn 64gb model, too many people bought that and spammed every forum on the planet with space constraint issues. I have no idea why on earth they ever thought 64gb was a good starting point.

Do you put a Toyota motor in your Nissan and then go to the Nissan dealer when it doesn’t work?

I bought that exact unit for 90 bucks less than a month ago what the fuck? Even canucklebucks shouldn’t be that high.