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Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.
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The biggest thing for me is being able to put games to sleep and pick them up later. Being able to instantly stop playing a game, and then instantly start playing back at that same spot later has really freed me up to play in a lot of small sessions.
I've majorly cut down on how much time I spend on my phone, and replaced it with bite sized chunks of playing real games.
That is an awesome feature! I don’t find myself playing short sessions nowadays. That would be super useful if I did though!
It helps me play games that I would otherwise avoid on my desktop (usually low-requirement games like Vampire Survivor-likes or action platformers). If I gotta pick up a controller to play it, the Deck is probably better. I can also play in shorter bursts, so if I have ten minutes of nothing to do, that's ten minutes I can make progress on a game.
And because of that I've finished a lot more games than I did with only my desktop.
Ask me how I have several Steam games with over 4k hours logged.