Steam Deck - ULTIMATE Starter Guide

"your waiting for your deck to arive, so your watching videios" I feel so called out.

Deck+Dock is better than Switch but the real star of Steam is cloud saves. Hook up a powerful PC to your TV or monitor and go back and forth between portable and couch/desk using cloud saves. Now you really have the best of all worlds.

I ordered my deck during spring sale. Currently skiing in Utah and it’s waiting for me at home 😍😭 I only wanted to comment to say I think it’s really admirable that you promoted other SD channels for seemingly no other reason than being a fan of the deck and the greater community. Keep doing what you’re doing!

The Deck is something completely different than what I though it would be... I purchased it because I'm a retro portable geek and have too many mobile devices in the house. I wanted the deck to replace them all with emulation. But I have yet to play emulated games seriously on the deck so far, I'm playing mainly steam games and have not been bored enough yet to play emulated consoles. I have batocera on an SD card and only booted into it twice so far. Things might change later but for the moment, just plain Steam does it for me and I'm loving it.

I just got mine on Monday and I love it. Its one of the best purchases I've made in the last couple of years.

As an addition to the desktop controls, I always like to add that I prefer to set the triggers to click (left click to right trigger, right click to left trigger), and to bind the middle mouse click to R1, and the left track pad to act as a scroll wheel. This does several things. 1) The trigger click doesn't drift off when pressed like the track pads do. 2) The middle mouse click is used in Linux to perform a paste action of selected text. I.E. If you highlight text, and center mouse click on a text entry box, it will paste the highlighted text. Very helpful on desktop Linux and in desktop mode on the Deck. 3) Having the scroll wheel bound to the left track pad will let you scroll easily through web pages etc, without having to find the scroll bar or plug in a mouse. I think all of these should be set by default, but that is me.

The Steam Deck is legit the best gateway to PC gaming since devs can use it as the minimal spec for their games since they'd love that FREE verified status on Steam when consumers want portability and power in compromised harmony, since Nintendo never likes playing catch up with the bigger consoles.

My steam deck has not arrived yet but I have asked a few questions on the subreddit and it already seems like one of the most active and helpful communities I've seen

I am getting my deck soon! Your crisp videos got my sub immediately. Thank you for all the in-depth guides and information. This is incredibly helpful for someone like me,

Aiming down sight and firing woth a full pull sounds PERFECT! I can't wait for your tuts for these!

This is the best Steam Deck video I've ever seen! Thank you for all the helpful info in this very watchable video:)

10 out of 10 buddy! So much information and all of it was beneficial. Thank you for uploading.

Brilliant overview, many thanks! Also thanks for tip on running using Edge of joystick setting that really helpful.

I bought the Tomtoc bag thanks to your videos and I couldn't be happier. It's a GREAT bag, holds all of my accessories well, looks great... can't speak any more highly about it. Thank you.

Great guide, but then again I was expecting nothing less from the master 🔥 Im almost jealous how much easier you're making this for the newcomers compared to silly little me trying things out myself! 😂

I get mine Wednesday. That futurama boot logo is the biggest thing I’m looking forward to. Great video

Thanks for doing this video. I ordered a steam deck. I figure why not preemptively learn some tips and tricks. This led me to your channel. Super helpful, man! Appreciate it!

I really loved how positive you are about the other Steam deck community members/youtube channels; it's really wholesome and shows how much you care about the community as a whole!

Great video just order mines today and pumped up for this!!!

Thanks for this! There are several "X things to know/do with your new deck", but very few have turned out to be this informative and helpful.