A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.
Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
I love my deck because
But I was wondering what kind of uses other people have with it, as a non gaming machine?
I used it a while ago to record audio with a X32 mixing console in our rehearsal room.
Sometimes my wife likes to steamlink my desktop on the tv. In that case I hit my kvm button to switch over to my deck and use it as a backup desktop.
I sold my laptop and used my Steam Deck as my main PC for a couple of months (till the parts for my new PC arrived). Worked out great. Convinced me to install Arch Linux on my new PC.
The Deck works well as an HTPC too. Works great with Plex, etc.
it's my daily device. I watch youtube and anime in desktop mode. I even have some music on it.
I've used it for work during a trip (I do not own a laptop). I've also used it to help a few students doing a bioinformatics class, as most of the tools we use are Linux programs accessed via SSH into a cluster server.
I've used mine sometimes for watching stuff that doesn't support Chromecast or any other easy way of playing it on my TV.
I plan to get a second dock for it, and use it in place of a stream deck for when I stream.
Then it will be serve these purposes for me
(replacing the tired old barely adequate first gen raspberry pi+touchscreen I was using until a few months ago)
I've recently started to find its really nice to use kde connect on the desktop to watch videos on my TV though the browser. It's not the most amazing experience but nice in pinch and better than hooking up my Chromebooks to the TV
For stremio.
Someone is going to say porn, and for that person I want to know how the hell you hold that thing one handed (for long enough).
I've got much better devices for porn, but it's pretty easy to use one-handed. Sit up with it on your lap. Lay down with your hand under it and the other side in the air, or with your hand on the top side and the other side resting the weight on your couch or bed.
If you couldn't do that you'd need a 3rd hand to use the touch screen.
Hmmm... I wonder if there's any porn games that support simultaneous controller and touch screen import.
I imagine someone would either connect it to a Monitor/TV or have it held up with a dock or something lol 🤷🏻♀️
Honestly just for gaming. I have a Framework laptop running Linux that I use for anything else.