I agree about the touchpads. Those work great. And most keys can be assigned to.buttons so without keyboard is okay, but some strategy games have a lot of shortcuts and those just work better with a keyboard.

Suspend and resume are indeed fantastic. There is no wait time before you can game.

Yeah, that last part about getting my gaming vibe going is something I recognize. I used to get a lot of joy out of gaming and could spend hours on it. Now it is feeling more and more like something I do just to pass time.

That was my move as well. I did do some upgrades on my PC along the way, but the base was still from 2009 (and I must say, it functioned surprisingly well). But a couple of months back I upgraded my PC as well. But the decline in play time on the Steam Deck was started before the upgrade.

I should probably use it more as you do. Plug it in on the TV and do some group gaming or just for myself, and keep it with me when traveling.

That sucks man. Nice to have the Steam Deck then. At least you have some form of entertainment.

It definitely is, and I really enjoyed it when I got it. But I do run into the limitations of the device. Those limitations are by design because I would like a bigger screen, but putting a 17" screen on a handheld doesn’t make it a handheld anymore. So my usecase might not fit with the device anymore. I do use it sometimes to play sports or casual games. But that’s about it.

On macOS you need to do that quite a couple of times. Changing settings, installing stuff to run in the background, install stuff to open open login, etc. So it is there. Furthermore a lot of programs and guides for linux are written to make it easy so they use sudo but you don’t always have to run it as root. But not doing so usually requires more steps. So linux is more restricting but to circumvent that, people use sudo a bit too much.

Does your girlfriend use your devices or accounts? Seems very strange to me that they would do that. Or they want to fuck you over even more by making it less easy to deny that you didn’t create that account since the password is linked to you/your girlfriend. But then again, LE would need to be made aware of the password before that makes sense.