Steam Deck: 7 Unexpected Things We Discovered

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Valve's Steam Deck is here and, since we’ve had our hands on it, we’ve discovered several little things - both good and bad - that it can and cannot do.

Here’s a round-up of the most unexpected things we discovered during our first few weeks with the Steam Deck. Please take note of time of publish, as we’ve discovered the Steam Deck is constantly evolving and some of these may change in the future (wanna know how it's evolving? Check out our review-in-progress).

With only a dongle that allows USB input, you can actually install OBS and plug in all of your streaming equipment to start streaming. While this method might result in a chuggier stream, it was one of the cooler features we did not expect to be this functional.

Even though Windows didn’t have any graphic drivers available the entire duration of our early access, it does come with a built-in Steam version of Linux. And the desktop Linux environment is similar to Windows. Once you figure out how to install things, you can simply install Chrome, or keep on using the pre-installed firefox for all your online needs.

Now that most of us use slack, google docs, and other browser-based applications, it’s not that much of a stretch to use your steam deck in a pinch. Hey, I even wrote the script for this video on my steam deck!

Some of the more popular games that include anti-cheat will not work with Steam Deck. So that means optimized games like Destiny 2 or the insanely popular Lost Ark did not run on our machines at the time of launch. But neither did Apex Legends and now people are playing it on Steam Deck, so it's probably just a matter of time. Except for maybe Destiny 2.

Valve has been pretty forthcoming with modification options, going so far as to put out a cad file