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this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2025
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If you are planning to buy steam DOCK, don't. It has been a complete shitshow.
Updates fails dozen times before finishing without crashing. Sometimes you need to disconnect power, so it switches to deck power for the update process even start and same trick works, if the dock refuses to see the external displays. Connect power back after it spasms in the right direction.
30 euro garbage from local supermarket works better.
No problems with mine in the past 4 months since I got it.
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Look into framegen. It actually works quite well and can make the difference between 40 fps not stable to 60 fps stable. It will introduce some artifacts, but on this screen size they are quite negligible.
The multi user experience is really bad if you share any games
It looks like the biggest issue here will be fixed in the next update: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1675200/discussions/1/4038102936190852716/
Controversial opinion, but if cost isn't an issue then a steam deck isn't a great buy. It fills a niche for sure but honestly a gaming laptop with a gamepad is 100% more useful IMHO.
I struggled to find it anymore portable than a laptop is and worse performance/screen/utility in almost every measurable way.
Agree 100%. Steam Deck is great for people with no money who still want to get into PC gaming. Everyone else should build a PC or buy a laptop.
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If you aren’t familiar with Linux I would spend a little bit of time in a BASH shell playing around with commands. You really don’t want to be stuck in a scenario where your steam deck cannot boot, for some random reason, and all of sudden you know no commands to troubleshoot with or a brief idea on the structure of the filesystem.
I don’t own a steam-deck personally but I always recommend this advice for anyone moving into the Linux ecosystem.
Best of luck.
Edit: Seems like SteamOS is on a whole other level of stable, while I still recommend this advice it certainly isn’t mandatory. Thanks to others who provided feedback.
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