Would it be possible to have a full OS (Windows) running on the Dock-M.2, connect two monitors and have it all run somewhat useable for non-gaming-purposes? I doubt this will be possible over the single USB-C on the Deck, but I lack any serious experience on this topic.

More I/O is very high on my wishlist for a Steam Deck 2. To this day I´m still amazed by the amount of ports my little old GPD Win 1 had :happy:

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Quoting: Supay

Quoting: RavenWingsDamn, they all are just so great! Can I just put em all in a folder and have the Deck choose one at random? That would increase my average daily happiness by at least 10% :grin:

There is indeed. I highly recommend this. You can put weightings on them too.

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Perfect, thanks! :heart:

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Damn, they all are just so great! Can I just put em all in a folder and have the Deck choose one at random? That would increase my average daily happiness by at least 10% :grin:

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: GuestThe price of the docking station is absurd.
People who keep saying that Valve is "the good guy" will get a rude awakening once more questionable decisions will be made.
I will go with the JSAUX dock instead.

I don't quite get the outburst here. Yes it's more expensive but it also has DisplayPort (JSAUX don't have that), USB 3.1 (JSAUX has 3.0) and direct Valve support from a much more known company. Naturally, it will also have the absolute best direct support for the Deck, since it was made specifically for it. I'm not a big fan of the price either, but it doesn't suddenly make them some kind of evil. Bit weird.

As an addition: the official Docking Station doesn't even need to be used. It's an added extra, and they continue to improve the docked experience for third-party stuff all the time. You use whatever you want, Valve even made that point clear in their video.

They don´t get any hate from me, but its still a bit shocking and I think it would be great to have another, cheaper (official) option with less features. But on the other hand... the Deck itself is far to cheap already and we do have many options with third-party hardware... if instead of a Steam Deck this would be the "Xbox Series M" or something, we would have to pay 150€ for the offical dock and would need to grind off some plastic-barrier from the device in order to be able to use a third-party solution xD

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99€ seems very high... I was hoping for something ~40€ and was planning to buy 3-4 of them. For now I ordered just one, but I will need two at the very least. I´ll try it out for a while and then descide if I rather get one or more third party docks as addition.

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Wonderfull :heart:
Can we get something like this for the achievement-sound next?

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I still think three days is very short with such a potentially long waiting-time. I got my deck already anyway, but I´m glad to see there is at least some small grace-periode. I honestly would love to see some mechanism where you have 3-4 weeks after the original buying-window has passed to "re-order" and get put on top of the line if you changed your mind or simply missed the email.

I dont even want to imagine how devastating it would be if someone were to miss his opportunity and has to wait a full year or whatever for another chance xD

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I´d really love to see a "When opening the Steam-Menu" option for the Lock-Screen, so I can resume playing a suspended game without entering a code, but still need it to access any other functions.

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Inb4 "↑↑↓↓←→←→BA" becomes the new "12345" :grin:

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Guys, there is only one true option: The Deck Dock!

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