It advertises being the easiest way to get into PC gaming and I really hope that’s true and that’s been my biggest selling point along with it’s price tag. I’ve never rly been a pc gamer and find it’s a bit complicated. I barely got the tech skills to install some emulators on my laptop. Comparing the Steam Deck to competitors like the Legion Go and Rouge Alley which have better specs at only a little larger price tag but how user friendly are they? Is the Steam Deck really any easier to use then these competitors?
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You can use the SteamDeck without ever going into the desktop mode. Basically you can use the SteamDeck like it was a standard console without ever getting into the meat and bones of the OS (operating system). If you wanted to do something more advanced and things you can’t usually do on a standard console, you can. The main thing people would struggle with regarding it would be directory locations, or in an end user terminology; your folders and file locations because you don’t have your standard C:\ drive location. Sometimes when installing mods like the Moguri mod for ff9, you kind of need to know file locations. That’s honestly the hardest part if you’re scared about the Linux OS.
Very
you never even have to leave gaming mode if you don’t want to, in which case it’s as user friendly as the steam itself, which has had decades of work put into it
Very user friendly, in fact, its the best gateway into linux. Ive ways said, the real game with steam deck is getting things to run. If you have problems, most likely youll find a youtube video to help solve it.
It depends. Are you just going to play steam games? Then yeah its increadibly easy, it works like a console in that regard. If you want to emulate stuff or play non-steam games it gets more complicated but nothing you can’t follow in a guide.
I’m feeling pretty dumb with mine. Trying to put Uplay on it and even following a guide I got lost. All I want to do is play AC Odyssey and Valhalla but without Uplay and Ubisoft Connect I cannot.
Pick a game U own, or buy in store, click install, then play. Just look at buttons layout (before the game should be default loaded), then/or in game if needed, but it should be straight forward.
OFC at the beginning(1st SD setup) U have to provide some things like: language, time zone, WiFi password, and then login details, but after that you are ready to go.
If all the games you’re gonna play are in Steam and that’s it, it’s very user-friendly. If you want to get into more nitty-gritty things, I’d wager it still is fairly user-friendly, just user-friendly for the more technically-familiar (not even adept) person. Stuff like Emudeck, Decky Loader, and CSS Loader make things unbelievably simple. The community support is easily one of the biggest selling points of the deck over legion go or ally.
I own a steam deck, rog ally and the legion go. The steam deck is the easiest one to use. You don’t have to worry about installing any windows updates. The legion go is the most frustrating one to use and it is because of the software. I prefer the armory crate from the Ally.
As long as you use it like a console, it will behave just like a regular console. However, if you wish to tinker on it to express its full potential, you definitely can. You Can even start using it as it is out of the box and slowly explore the possibilities later on, taking your time to get familiar with it first
The steam deck offers a console like experience because of Steam OS. Basically you can buy things from steam and load them just like on a console, no PC knowledge required. The Legion Go and Rouge Alley are basically just handheld windows PCs, so are the same to operate as a computer.
It seems to me we can stop saying “Console like” and start saying “Console+” if you stay in gaming mode it’s just as user friendly as a console.
In addition you get plugins, and an entire desktop mode with a bit of exploration.
It’s extremely user friendly. Modders have helped a lot with making it easy to install things like emulators. You can install practically every emulator in one go with emudeck.
I feel like steam OS is the perfect balance. You can go from minimal tinkering to getting down and dirty with the settings. I wouldn’t be scared off by it being your first gaming pc. I’m primarily a windows user … and even going into the desktop mode (which you don’t need to) the steam deck is such a device with tons of community support you will always find answers to a problem. Either via Reddit or YouTube.
I would go for it . I’ve been loving mine as a first time steam deck user (although slightly more technically experienced with computers altogether)
Exactly this! Its hard to overstate how much Steam OS lowers the barrier to just getting into your games. It truly is a fully consolized experience for PC Games.
Simple and versatile.
Add on to that, the touchpads (often disregarded) you have access to the most PC of PC games that require a mouse (Civ, Pillars of Eternity, obviously much much more).
As a handheld focused on playing traditional PC games, nothing rivals it.
If you play the Green marked games you should never have to tinker around and manually install things. Yellow marked games should work but could have problems. The other mark usually lead to tinkering around with settings.
With the Legion Go and Rouge Alley you would technically just run windows like you would on a normal PC and if you want a simpler experience the steam deck is the best thing.
I’m mostly a console gamer, but I have a pc that is almost entirely for vr. I don’t want something that I have to tinker with endlessly to get it to work. So on my steam deck I only use it in steam os mode and only play games from the steam store. I don’t do anything with mods. The only layer of complexity is the performance settings, but nothing I’ve played so far has required me to do anything weird, including Starfield.