I’m mostly playing BG3 those days and the battery lasts max 1,5-2 hours until I have to plug it again. So if I have a long playing session (like today, slow Sunday) I will have to charge it pretty frequently. Is it bad for the battery? I wish it lasted longer, but oh well (don’t see myself upgrading to oled at this time).
Modern batteries are smart enough to handle being plugged in all the time
The Steam Deck doesn’t automatically limit charge to 80% as a lot of devices seem to lately, but the impact this has is honestly negligible
What really matters in the end is how many cycles your battery goes through, which is to say how many times the energy transfer equivalent of going from 0 to 100% is
The tl;dr of it however is don’t worry about how you use your device, while it might be true that it’s optimal to always keep batteries between 20 and 80% it’s honestly not even worth worrying about that.
Just download PowerTools and set the charge limit to 80%. BAM you just got the best of both worlds.