Valve's Steam Deck needs no introduction. It is to handheld gaming PCs what the iPad is to tablets. It's the one that everyone thinks of first. Whenever I was using other options, such as the highly praised ASUS ROG Ally X, the first question I'd regularly be asked was, "Is that a new Steam Deck?"
I've owned one since April 2022, delivered less than two months after the first units started shipping. It's still the only thing, tech or otherwise, that I pre-ordered the moment I could. I was pumped. Having spent much of the previous two years learning about Linux and the quirks of gaming on it, I had high hopes.
