How to Get Screenshots off a Steam Deck

We interrupt my regular playthrough posts with this important news bulletin:

I FINALLY GOT MY STEAM DECK YOU GUYS! 😍 🤩

I’tm about to do TWO posts about this. One with general overall impressions of the thing, and also this post, which is going to be about the hoops I had to jump through in order to get at the screenshots I love to take for my playthrough posts. This did, I feel, deserve a whole separate post because it’s one of the few things I don’t like about the Deck so far. And I wanted to write up the steps I followed for my workaround, in case any other gamers out there also finally getting Decks want to do the same thing.

This is going to be long, so here’s a More tag, y’all:

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First impressions of my new Steam Deck

To follow up on the post I made last night, here’s a more general post about my overall initial impressions of the Steam Deck. The super short form: this thing is amazing, with only a few things I’ve found a bumpy experience so far. <3

Longer form: I’m not going to review this thing in great technical depth. Lots of other sites, such as Ars Technica, have done that already. Go looking for your favorite gaming review site of choice and you’ll probably find they put up a review of this device months ago, with as much technical detail as you might want.

Me, I’m going to focus instead on my immediate impressions of it, and what this is going to mean for me in my gaming moving forward.

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Still to do on the Deck

As an addendum to the two posts I’ve already put up last night and this afternoon about the Steam Deck, here are some quick notes about things I still need to test out on it:

1. It occurred to me that since I did make a successful connection to our house network’s NAS while in Desktop mode, I can just use that to retrieve screenshots, which would cut out several steps, so I need to try that out
2. Playtesting my current Morrowind playthrough, and seeing if that’s significantly easier than playing on the PC or what, and what changes I might need to make to my controller mappings
3. See whether those extra buttons on the back will in fact be useful in Morrowind
4. How well it behaves when plugged into our TV via HDMI
5. And by extension of previous, how well it’ll talk to my Nintendo Switch Pro controller
6. Research recommended ways to get mods for Skyrim and possibly also Morrowind onto the thing
7. Research how big a pain in the neck it may or may not be to get Elder Scrolls Online running on it, or whether ESO is going to have to wait till I upgrade my computer

Plenty more to try out here. Looking forward to this. <3

Anybody with recommendations for or experience in any of these things, let me know your thoughts!

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In Which Shenner Claims the Deathbrand Hoard and the Black Bow of Fate

This Shenner session is a milestone: the very first time I tried out playing Skyrim on my new Steam Deck! Very satisfying experience over all. And satisfying for Shenner as well, as she got to kill several pirate ghosts and a dragon, and collect more shiny loot. <3

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