Hey, I’m thinking of upgrading from my old work laptop (which isn’t really built for gaming at all, but is great for productivity), and I was eyeing either an OLED steam deck or a more powerful laptop that I could bring with me and use on campus away from my home setup. I plan on using linux for either machine, but I was wondering if any of the Steam Deck’s secret sauce or price to performance puts it ahead compared to a Framework or Gaming laptop.
Also, if anyone has experience using a steam deck as a workstation/portable work setup, I would love your input on if it’s a good idea to replace a laptop with a steam deck entirely.
I thought I might use my steamdeck as a laptop as while I move my laptop around it tends to be between sorta set areas and I could just have an external monitor. Thing is its so handy as a game machine that I just don’t want to use disk space or such for my general stuff. I really enjoy having the games not on my laptop to. That being said its great for casual gamers like me but I doubt a hardcare tripple A max stats type gamer will be satisfied just using it for gaming.