This might be a lit­tle bit of old news, but late last year I got myself a Steamdeck. I love this thing! I recall read­ing a review where it was described as a portable gam­ing device that’s about the size of a small cat. It was­n’t wrong. The thing has def­i­nite­ly got some weight to it and its a respectable size. I’ve used the steam plat­form for over ten years and over that time I’ve man­aged to gath­er quite a col­lec­tion of games, over two thou­sand total now. So to me it made sense to get the unit and with the mon­ey I had around Christ­mas time. I ran with it. 

The device runs a cus­tom OS based off of Arch-Lin­ux. SteamOS boots direct­ly into steam on pow­er up with­in a few sec­onds and does have an option to boot into a XWin­dows. With a dock­ing sta­tion and Blue­tooth sup­port its lit­er­al­ly a lit­tle hand held com­put­er with 16 GB of RAM and a 512 GB SSD. Throw in an eas­i­ly acces­si­ble micro SDCard slot and its got plen­ty of stor­age for all sorts of things.

One of my first installs on my deck was RetroArch, I love my emu­la­tors hav­ing grown up with sys­tems like the Cole­co­V­i­son, Intel­livi­son, Atari 2600, Nin­ten­do, You get the idea. While I don’t use the device every day its gone with me a few times and has been a great source for fun and enter­tain­ment. I’ve even installed Dis­cord on it so I can chat and stream from it.