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- Comment on How do you manage your Steam Deck as a family device? 2 weeks ago:
One install is fine! you just need to add it as a non steam game for each different steam account! (assume save progression doesnt matter as much)
- Comment on How do you manage your Steam Deck as a family device? 2 weeks ago:
I have an 8 and a 7 year old who both have their own steam accounts as child accounts within my steam family. Both of them have access to a profile on the steam deck(though I have 2 decks so they can each use one at the same time) and they for the most part just work.
The steam user profile changes but the account the steam deck runs on doesn’t. So some things stick around. Controller pairings and the like just work. Steam profile specific configs need to be done multiple times for each user (steam input custom mapping, etc) but I try and mostly stick to deck verified games for my kids because they really do just work.
I had a dock for a while and it also just kinda worked. But I didn’t have to do much tweaking. The dock broke after a while though(jsaux not valve) and I never bothered to replace it since I ended up just installing moonlight in my tv and sunshine on my gaming PC(also Linux).
I don’t have any experience with heroic launcher, but I did set up prism and Minecraft on their profiles and it just worked with the right deck compatible mod bundle.
The biggest issue I have found is sea of thieves will default to whichever the last signed in account is on any profile, so I just signed into it on my daughter’s account and don’t play it on the deck myself.
Docking it made it a bit more complicated for us as well, mostly because the kids don’t know much about the tv inputs and honestly getting them set up would just take me a few seconds to turn it in, grab the charged controllers and get them to the home menu so I never really bothered to teach them it. But that’s a non issue unless I buy another dock at some point in the future. They both prefer to be in mobile mode on the couch anyways.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #22 4 months ago:
I love these posts and always look forward to them. Take care of your health! As someone who recently found out my health and lifestyle are about to change drastically. You absolutely need to make sure you take care of you.
- Comment on Valve's huge Steam Deck update is now ready for everyone, including rival AMD handhelds 5 months ago:
Get some Darn Tough socks! I’ve been using them for years and outside of the initial purchase I’ve been rocking free socks!
- Comment on Has the Deck turned *off* any other Steam users? 5 months ago:
I have set up a steam family and created accounts for my kids. Other than only having one copy of some games or games not supporting family sharing it’s been great. I have control over the games they can see in their libraries and we can all play different or the same game with enough licenses at the same time. We often play valheim together.
- Comment on Recommendations for games for 6 year old 7 months ago:
My kids (7 and 6) enjoy valheim, Lego Star wars, deaths door, portal 2 and spiritfarer
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - April 2025 7 months ago:
Northgard primarily! It’s been wearing my trackpad smooth.
- Comment on Games you want on the deck 11 months ago:
I would just like to see more games be a bit friendlier with settings. Give me some real potato settings or focus a bit more on optimization so I can play stuff without having to futz with settings so much.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games have you been playing on your deck? - September 2024 1 year ago:
I keep getting lost! But then I find secrets I walked by and vacuums I can pet so it’s worth it. But the colours can be really difficult. I find I use the flashlight quite a bit while exploring. I’ve been playing half on the OLED steam deck and the other half on my PC(standard LED) and the colours seem better on the steam deck.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games have you been playing on your deck? - September 2024 1 year ago:
Sifu and Selaco
- Comment on Proton 9.0 now in Beta with improved game compatibility for Steam Deck / Linux 1 year ago:
Improved support for input devices with 8+ axes.
This must be a custom controller for lumberjack simulator.
- Comment on I've never had a Steam account or done PC gaming. I have a OLED SteamDeck coming. what do I need to know? 1 year ago:
The finals only works on windows, so don’t expect to play that on the pre-installed OS. But keep an eye on steam sales to pick up tons of games on the cheap. Its also a really comfortable system to play some games you might not play on a PC or console. Indie games and the like.
- Comment on PSA: You can filter for games that support HDR in the Store and your library 1 year ago:
4 games in my whole library apparently lol. I’m sure more games will add the tag soon!
- Comment on soon... 1 year ago:
I refreshed it just now and it let me buy it! Got my email confirmation and everything!
- Comment on soon... 1 year ago:
congrats! I got to the checkout window and then it errored out now it says its out of stock :(
- Comment on soon... 1 year ago:
aaand they are out of stock.
- Comment on soon... 1 year ago:
It broke before I could confirm payment details. It breaks on the shipping details window for me!
- Comment on Good Times 1 year ago:
I don’t even get the chance to confirm my shipping details!
- Comment on What reviews didn't say about the Steam Deck OLED 1 year ago:
I have one currently but am absolutely getting another! The kids or wife can use the old one which still works perfectly fine!
- Comment on Valve May Start Selling Refurbished Steam Decks Soon - Steam Deck HQ 2 years ago:
This is awesome! More decks in the wild is the best option!