There are plenty of supposed Steam Deck killers available in the portable gaming space, from the Asus ROG Ally to the Lenovo Legion Go and all the Ayaneo and ONEXPLAYER devices in between. But none of them have managed to outright slay the dragon that is the mighty Steam Deck yet.
Steam Deck is the only portable pc that can suspend a game thanks to being built with Linux, Windows based gaming portables can’t do this.
This alone would have sold me on it over other handhelds, but I’m also a longtime Linux enthusiast and wanted to support Valve’s investment in the ecosystem. I’m still just so satisfied with it even a year after I got it because of how much it can do without Windows!
And with KDE and Wayland development, dumping games with annoying save mechanics to disk might also become available.
Save scumming ahoy!