Hey all. I was looking for a dock online and noticed a decent amount of third party ones on ebay and Amazon. Anyone tried any, or know a good brand?

I don’t see myself playing on my TV much, just when I have friends over, so I can’t justify the cost of the name brand.

  • parmesancrabs@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    8 months ago

    Have a look for USB-C docks that don’t specifically mention “for the steam deck”. They’re all functionally the same but I found a steam deck owner tax when they reference Steam decks in product titles. For example, I picked up a Sabrent dock where reviews mentioned steam deck.

      • blindsight@beehaw.org
        1·
        8 months ago

        I don’t know if this is related, but none of the third party docks I could find offered full resolution, full refresh rate, multi-monitor output, as the official dock can offer.

        Every dock I looked at with a decent number of reviews either had 1 star reviews mentioning monitor connection problems and/or docks dying shortly after purchase, too, but it’s hard to know if that’s relevant or just the baseline noise of electronics failure rates/user error.

        I just ended up eating the cost (and long shipping times) to get the official one.

      • Chronographs@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Last I looked into them on windows (years ago now) they were very hacky there as well, and of course performed quite poorly. It has a few niche uses allowing you to use more monitors than you could use otherwise, especially on macs where last I checked MST wasn’t implemented but still it’s really a last resort option.