@tengumatingpress I think everything you mentioned is a great product and I use Steam Link all the time (I configure it correctly). The reason Valve’s hardware tends to fail is that they don’t behave like a hardware maker. Note how differently Valve treats their hardware compared to a console 1st party. The only exception has been their VR systems, and incidentally those have done comparatively well.
All this being said, rumors say that Valve considers the Deck their flagship product. Besides developing a new OS for it, I’m not sure what that means to them. Hopefully they make a lot of apps and cool shit to exploit its portability.
@natsock @tengumatingpress
> You can alt tab out of steam
Do you have any source, that is talking about this in detail?
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills... 
Too bad it's going to be in shortage.
If you do however, find yourself buying from a scalper, do not get the cheapest version with crappy memory. It's worse than not having it at all, and no, you kinda can't replace it with your own memory, because of construction it requires well shielded memory, which is more expensive and will end up costing the same.
@Leitis @natsock @tengumatingpress
> If you do however, find yourself buying from a scalper...
If you do, please, consider taking following steps
@Leitis @natsock @eee @tengumatingpress
Why?
You support scalpers in here, and complain about a guy making a cheap PC?
I see you need to work on reading comprehension.
I made a funny, that steam decks will be bought by scalpers. You see it's funny, because recent experience is dominated by shortages and scalpers reselling common gaming hardware.
I'm hyped too.
From an IGN article written in collaboration with Valve:
>This flexibility means you can do pretty much anything on the Steam Deck that you can do with a regular PC. Connect a mouse and keyboard? Yep. Alt-Tab out of your games to a browser or video? Sure. Load third-party programs or even other game stores like Origin, uPlay, or Epic Games Store? No problem. You could even wipe Steam OS entirely and install a fresh version of Windows if you want – but the default Steam OS is smooth and efficient at getting you into your games, so I imagine most people won’t want or need to go that far. The point is, you can if you’d like to.
https://www.ign.com/articles/steam-deck-hands-on-impressions-details-valve-handheld-gaming-pc