You can check battery health in desktop mode, by clicking on the battery.

I’ve had my OLED deck for a little over a year now, and it’s still reporting 100% battery health.

    • penquin@lemm.ee
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      14 days ago

      You should mess with the desktop mode more often. It’s called KDE Plasma desktop, and it’s simply the most customizable software you can probably ever run into. It’s insane how many things you can change on this thing.

  • tunetardis@lemmy.caEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Mine says 99% health. I don’t know how reliable a metric that is?

    Lately, I’ve been playing on battery exclusively and basically going with the 1 gaming session = 1 battery charge regimen to self-regulate. I may need to re-evaluate this as the battery ages, but it’s good discipline for me at the moment…

    • Sunbutt23@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      I do this too. I can get about 2hrs on most games which is great for keeping me from staying up all night. Alas, Factorio sips battery though… sometimes I still fall down the dark hole of growing the factory for many many hours at a time.

      • tunetardis@lemmy.caEnglish
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        14 days ago

        I think I read somewhere that Factorio is more efficient running under Linux/Mac because it takes advantage of some quirk in the Unix forking mechanism that Windows can’t use? I don’t know if this means it would burn through battery even faster if the SD ran Windows, but it wouldn’t surprise me…

        • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          12 days ago

          Uh, that’s used to keep the game from pausing when it autosaves, like it does on Windows. I don’t think they use it any other time.

  • cobysev@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    I’m getting a new OLED Steam Deck in the mail within the next hour or so, so I’m glad to hear its battery is handing well.

    I have an original LCD Steam Deck from their initial announcement of the device, which is still showing 100% battery health. The battery doesn’t last very long unplugged, though. I’ve had to make sure I have a charging cable everywhere I go. So I’m looking forward to the longer lifespan of the new Steam Deck.

    • tunetardis@lemmy.caEnglish
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      14 days ago

      Wow, I did not know about the OLED with the bigger screen and presumably better battery life. I really want one now!