Detachable controllers is something I miss on the Steam Deck. At the same time, I don’t feel like having Windows on it, I have Linux on everything, including my phone, so unless SteamOS is officially supported, I won’t buy. Valve should hurry and release SteamOS as an installable image.
There’s this thing where they pretend they actually do it to be first and not because they want people to download their cracks. And that’s how you get the crazy talk where they pretend they’re pro-DRM.
Screen is not the best, but everything else is superior. SteamOS is much better than Windows, IMO. Though I don’t play multiplayer games and I’ve read some anticheats don’t run on Linux. The only multiplayer game I play from time to time is Fall Guys and it works. Emulators are actually where Linux shines and especially Steam Deck - there’s an app called EmuDeck that sets up all the emulators you could think of and makes it work really easily. For Epic and GOG games I use Heroic Games Launcher and it works well, I played Spider-Man and Fall Guys from Epic and most of my library is on GOG.
Basically Telltale games. I include first Life is Strange in that because they managed to out-Telltale the Telltale. I love my games basically as an interactive story.
Edit: Also Heroes of Might & Magic. I want more good ones, 6 & 7 sucked tremendously.
For me it’s about the story, I basically only play games that have an interesting story (and some Vampire Survivors here and there). So I don’t care for challenge or progress.