Steam Deck arrived, first day of use

I've been wanting something more portable than my big PC for a long, long time, and I'm not the biggest laptop fan, so I thought what the hell, why not try to use a Steam Deck as my regular PC. So I pulled the trigger on the 512 GB model a couple days ago, merry Christmas to me! It's here and I've been using it all afternoon. As far as normal use goes, fairly smooth transition. There's only a few hiccups at the moment that I'm not thrilled about. I bought the official dock with it, which was only released like a month or two ago or something, and I'm having problems with it detecting my monitor consistently while docked and charging. Apparently this is a common issue. The track pads are also super sensitive to presses. I've got the sensitivity turned all the way down and I can't stop middle-click pasting into every text box when using trackpad navigation. Speaking of which, typing using the trackpads is super weird, but I'm oddly kinda into it. It's gonna take getting used to, like learning to type on a smartphone all over again.

Game mode is really cool and polished. I've barely touched it in all honestly. Played Portal for a few minutes just to get a feel for the trackpads, and then I've been in desktop mode the rest of the time. Desktop mode is fairly jank, though the kind of jank I'm fairly used to at this point as a Linux user. I'd really prefer to use Gnome shell instead of KDE, but it's fine for now. I'll try some of the hacky stuff to get Gnome working later. After solely using a system with an Nvidia card for the last few years, I'm very happy to see Wayland working without a hitch. Seeing a large company like Valve champion Flatpak and Flathub for software distribution is also very very cool.

Overall, pretty happy so far. I may write a followup a week or so from now with any updates. Posting from the Steam Deck btw