It’s an excellent thin client as well. I’ve played the second half of death stranding through the free tier of Geforce Now.

Wasn’t the new motherboard released even before the OLED?

If a vendor strangely insist on not working on a new product, it’s lying.

In this case it’s obvious, considering we already got 2 minor revisions of steamdeck HW.

Steam provides it’s own linux userspace runtime. The game developers just target that to avoid the problem you describe.

The first original recovery image did not support ethernet connection. Steam wouldn’t let you through the initial setup. Not sure if there’s an updated image available these days.

Before the steamdeck came out, I’ve been actually thinking about buying an android handheld console. The fact that the most android games were pay2win convinced me to wait for something better.

However, getting an android app support, that’s reliably set up, by someone else than me, and basically for free would still be nice!