Mine’s not perfectly flat but it’s too minor for me to RMA that lol.

Should be region dependent. Last time I saw them in stock in Canada was when they announced the OLED decks, took about 2 days or so for the refurb units to be sold out.

They’ve limited it to 1 Steam Deck per account per week. They also said that they expect to have enough stock to meet demand but if they don’t, they’ll put up a reservation system similar to one used when the SD originally launched.

Without accepting the keys, it won’t install the package and since it’s a dependency that the apps you want to install, it errors out because it can’t install the dependency.

You’ll need to answer yes to the PGP key to install the dependent package. However, as always, make sure it’s a trustworthy key before installing.

It’s generally not recommended to turn off the immutable filesystem on SteamOS unless you know your way around Linux.

Steam Link wasn’t really built to stream outside of your local network. Opening ports randomly on your home Internet is not usually recommended due to security reasons and piping it through a VPN adds latency.

Personally I’d get a Steam Deck or any of the Windows handheld device instead if you travel often. Keep in mind that Microsoft Store games won’t work on the Steam Deck (except for in Windows and at that point, just get a Windows handheld).

What are you looking to do? SteamOS is Arch based so .deb wouldn’t work. .tar is just an archive.

If you need to install Linux software, best to stick to Flatpak packages via the Discover store.

Not Office 365 itself but you can always use the web version of Office 365 which has most of the features anyways. It works very well.

For an offline solution, look to LibreOffice.

I mean, we don’t ask laptop manufacturers to do this, why are we asking Valve for this? Valve has stated that they treat this like a PC just in a different form factor.

Keep in mind that even though there’s no major performance upgrade, much of the Deck OLED was redesigned from the ground up. They’d pretty much have to rebuild your Deck if they offered an “upgrade” program that you’re asking for. The internals are very much different compared to the original Deck.

Valve already pretty much stated that the base model pricing was “painful” to get to US $399 when it launched but they had to do it to compete for the masses especially those comparing it to the Switch pricing. Considering the massive redesign for the SD OLED, I’m not surprised that they only relegated it to the midtier & up for the OLED upgrades. OLED panels also cost more to produce as well.

No it does not (at least not without modding it by using the m.2 slot), if proper external GPU support is important, other handhelds like the ROG Ally & Legion Go have support for those instead.