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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

FFS, just get a laptop and stop pretending πŸ˜‚

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Haters gonna hate.

Got a laptop, use it for laptop shit. Got a Steamdeck, rarely need to do heavy typing on it, but when modding games I have to connect a keyboard and mouse to do so efficiently. Saw this solution and thought "hell yeah, great idea!". Bringing an easy to store/portable keyboard around for occasional use is way better than bringing a laptop and controller around when all you want to do is some gaming.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I'm not hating, just seems silly to get a portable gaming system to use kb+m when a laptop could do so much more for similar size/weight/cost.

I guess it all seems arbitrary to someone who could barely afford a used PS4 πŸ˜‚πŸ˜­

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I could see the utility of this for certain games where you need to type, but only for a minute

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Same energy

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn I have to consider those. Using the terminal with the screen keyboard is pain due to missing keys

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

missing keys

that's the biggest war crime that valve has committed with the deck and no idea how they think it's acceptable

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

In case you didn’t know, you can install a different onscreen keyboard from Discovery. It’d be nice if the default keyboard didn’t lack those fundamental features, though.