Yeah. I’m sympathetic to the whole “technology is hard” thing, and the idea that the SteamDeck is primarily meant to be for mobile gaming.

But switching from Nintendo Switch to SteamDeck really highlighted to me how good the Nintendo engineering team is, that I never had any of these display issues with a docked Switch.

• Yeah. It’s really that bad. They’ve been releasing quality of life patches, but Valve made a portable device that happens to support docking, not a device meant to be docked.

Based on your experience, I assume you have the official Steam Dock, which I find worse to use with the SteamDeck than any random USB C dongle that I have tried.

Edit: Be sure to check for updates. I recall some of the issues you mention (like the blank screen) were mentioned in SteamOS release notes this year.

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This is perfect, because the Fediverse is better than Twitch and Dragon Warrior Monsters is better than Pokemon.

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The first party Steam Dock tries to do too much, and is unreliable. It frequently doesn’t correctly activate the monitor and deactivate the local screen. Other plain old USB C docks work fine.

Also, the official Steam Dock is also not compatible with most Steam Deck cases, both at the base and at the USB C port.

It’s weirdly bad for twice the price as any other option.