I love my Steam Deck. I was fortunate enough to be in one of the early batches at launch, and it's truly one of my favorite pieces of tech. It isn't perfect, but it's still the one I'd recommend to most people, though I also appreciate that issues with game compatibility are jarring. As can be the experience of using Linux if you want to do anything on it that isn't just playing games you bought on Steam.
Recently I've finally tried a Windows-based alternative in the ROG Ally X (check out our ROG Ally X review for more information). With Windows 11, problems like game (and more often than not, anticheat) compatibility vanish, all of the major game launchers are natively available, and most things should just work. But Windows also provides a native use case I simply hadn't thought of before.
