I agree. Steam's prices on sales are still mostly unmatched by consoles.
Even if it is a "pricier" PS5-like machine, I'd still buy it and I bet I'd make up the difference in less than a year with just the sales games (including older games I can't play on either console).
I think most of the critiques for this are from people expecting this to be aimed at PC gamers.
I don't think it is. I think it's aimed at people that actually DON'T want to bother with building, buying, upgrading PCs, but still want to play cheap games, older games.
To this day, I can't make my PC turn on with a controller (and I've tried). Making a PC wake up as fast as a Steam Deck from sleep? Impossible.
Those little things will all add up to make this a very nice option for the non-hardcode PC game crowd.
Valve is going to steal a lot of users from console, mostly Xbox. Not PC Gaming enthusiast.
I went from Law to Software Development after 30. I was a lawyer for roughly 10 years before the change and even was a partner in a small law firm.
For me the key was just to see this huge change as a series of small steps instead of a big "flip the switch and change" move.
Before I changed, I took courses in programming to see if I'd like it, I build projects in my own time to see if I would actually pursue it.
Even once I decided to change careers, I still kept my old things ready in case I needed a fallback plan (this happened over 10 years ago but I still pay my Bar fees every year).
For me, doing it slowly, with a plan, and a backup, removed a lot of the pressure and risk of the change and it worked fine.
I haven't done anything in Law in over 10 years now and am fully "converted" to development.
My advice for you: buy some Cybersecurity courses on Udemy. They might not be perfect, but they are usually cheap (always wait for sales) and see if you will like it. You can take dozens of courses for 9-12 USD there to see if that is the path before committing to something more serious and expensive.
This is just to see if this is really the area you want. The day to day of most careers tend to be heavily romanticized from the outside.
Once you've done that, try to see if you can find some education with a Co-Op component. I found it is much easier to get your foot on the door of a new career as a Co-Op in a course, though that is not required.
I use TinkerTool to remove most of the animations from macOS, which makes it feel much snappier. That one, unfortunately, I haven't been able to disable.
Which is weird, because the launchpad page switching animation can be disabled and it is very similar to the Spaces animation.
It is amazing how much snappier the os feels by just removing those dock and "genie" animations from the interactions.
Even if it is a "pricier" PS5-like machine, I'd still buy it and I bet I'd make up the difference in less than a year with just the sales games (including older games I can't play on either console).
I think most of the critiques for this are from people expecting this to be aimed at PC gamers.
I don't think it is. I think it's aimed at people that actually DON'T want to bother with building, buying, upgrading PCs, but still want to play cheap games, older games.
To this day, I can't make my PC turn on with a controller (and I've tried). Making a PC wake up as fast as a Steam Deck from sleep? Impossible.
Those little things will all add up to make this a very nice option for the non-hardcode PC game crowd.
Valve is going to steal a lot of users from console, mostly Xbox. Not PC Gaming enthusiast.