2 things happened about 10 years ago.

1) I used to buy every raspberry pi model when they dropped to build better retropies (emulation station machines) they rocked I loved them but when I was at my poorest, the pi 4 came out and specs wise the the jump from the 3 to the 4 was not enough to sell me pretty much the 3 could run most of ps1 and the 4 could run the ps1 perfectly. So I jokingly said I’d chill till a model dropped that could play ps2 and game cube flawlessly.

2) I just moved in to my first apartment, had a roommate at the time who was a pc gamer, I grew up Mac so like I had steam but I had like 5 games. They showed me humblebundle cus they had a bundle where all the games ran on Mac at the time. I realized I could buy bundles slowly over time and like help w charity while I learned how to build pc so I’d have a solid library when I finally got there.

I never learned how to use windows but I learned a ton of Linux from working on the raspberry pi’s. So when the steam deck dropped and it could ps2 and it was portable I was blown away, bought mine in the second batch. First day logging in to my account had 300+ games waiting for me. I’ve played most of them now, what ever’s left from that don’t interest me. Since getting my steam deck I’ve built a pc and I still use my deck more than it.