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The touchpads work well for mousing around, clicking, dragging, all of that. The right trackpad as a mouse is easy, with right and left triggers (and right and left trackpad pushes) as left and right mouse buttons (so they are flipped, the main left click on the usually dominant right hand). Jurassic Park, of courseīy default, you’ll see it is quite familiar looking for any modern desktop, with a bar at the bottom for the application menu, shortcuts, and tray. This seems to be starting a new session, as returning to the main Deck interface doesn’t save where you were before you left for the desktop.

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It takes just a couple of seconds to switch over, and you’ll want to wait for Steam (the regular desktop version) to load in the background to have full use of the Deck controls. Desktop Basicsĭropping into the desktop mode is easy, either from holding down the power button to access the boot/reboot/etc. And if you have any particular questions or things for me to try, please let me know in the comments or in our Matrix room.

I still haven’t had a chance to do a lot of hacking on it, but let me share what I’ve tried and learned so far.

What is a bigger deal, that Valve’s Steam Deck plays Elden Ring from day one (and even better than on Windows!), or that it is a full-fledged Linux computer in handheld form? Okay, probably Elden Ring, but I know many current or prospective Linux users are excited to see what they can do with a powerful mini Linux computer.Īdmittedly, I’ve mostly been doing the whole Elden Ring on the Deck thing, to my own surprise, but I did pick up a dock (extra port dongle) to explore the desktop mode more.

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