I used it to watch anime for a month when I was away from my computer haha. It really made me want an oled monitor for my PC, but I realized they are quite expensive. I need to use my deck more in general to be honest.
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I temporarily used it as a computer (mostly just firefox tbh) when my main computer was out of order, normally no.
When I am travelling I use the deck and dock to order product (Libra office), Email, checking credentials of staff and watch video.
Only issue I have is the stupid jumping of frames when watching video in firefox due to not knowing how to turn of the stupid "smoothing" crap.
Closest I've come is accessing the browser on desktop mode to transfer files (pretty much just games or files for games) and soon I hope to add custom boot videos. Otherwise, it's just a game player/emulator player for me.
Random question, but does anyone know a way to make it so only custom boot videos play when you select random or have we not gotten that far yet?
Last Weekend I installed GNU Octave in Desktop Mode to plot a mathematical curve
Streaming video to a TV
How?
Desktop mode, Steam Deck Dock, and whichever streaming service through Firefox or flatpak app or whatever
Got it, thanks. I somehow thought you stream it wireless to the TV.
Oh definitely not, I meant more just an occasional media PC
huh? it's got a dock... just open your browser of choice and start streaming?
Thanks, I somehow thought he streams it wirelessly to the TV
Steam link app on a smart tv should work.
Pron...
I used mine to write an openSUSE image for my laptop, and a LibreELEC image for raspi just this weekend.
Basically everything. It's my only PC right now.
Used mine as my main PC for half a year, doing everything from gaming (duh) to embedded development. Used RWFUS to install packages not available on flathub, but have recently started experimenting with the NIX package manager (I'm still running write-protected SteamOS).
My sister uses hers as a test and development machine for linux and Android applications.
Thought about using my SD in my model aircraft hobby, but never got around to that. Maybe I'll use it when playing around with my car with the OBD2 adapter, since i can easily connect to it from my current main rig.
Mostly decking about.
Ukrainians using it to control machine gun, so they dont have to expose themselves in trench warfare.
Can I sign up outsidee Ukraine (legally, too)? Like its only extra latency. I cant go to space but I can blow up Russian armor a gazillion miles away so thats something
Warfare isn't a video game. I'm also sure they're not giving control to unvetted people.
Yeah I was not serious, its horrible this could be reality someday
So you're saying there won't be "Twitch does warfare" any time soon?
I use mine to run VJ software and do light shows at music events.
Since the deck is a powerful computer, and the form factor is quite compact, I find it better than laptops for the task.
I connect it to my projector to watch content.
For anyone wanting to take the deck to the next level and unlock more functionality I can warmly recommend http://bazzite.gg/
I don't know why but bazzite for me was super unstable compared to holo os for my deck
Can you elaborate in which use case bazzite is better on deck than stock steamOS? Whats the difference in terms of battery life? What are the tradeoffs?
Personally don't have a deck.. yet. I run Bazzite as my OS on my PC though. However, I read and see a lot of people running Bazzite on decks on forums and discord. This is also where i'd recommend going for answers such as you asked for. If I had to guess there isn't much difference when it comes to battery life - they're both running the same kernel. The reason you would want to switch, as shown on their website is to unlock the ability to run flatpak on your deck.
I kinda wished you were able to back up your claims. The Steam deck can install flatpacks through discover just fine.
Bazzite doesn't support the 64GB version of the deck. It's the version I own.
I run a rebased kionite to bazzite on my desktop pc, so its not like I hate Bazzite, I love it. All in all not a very sensible recommendation, in my opinion the risk of bricking far outweigh the aesthetic appeal to run Wayland apps.
I run Bazzite on my PC, and have a Deck. I have found zero reason to put it on my Deck.
Fair enough, I've only assumed Steam deck was "locked" to steam, but turns out its not. My bad for not having done proper research here.
I watch movies and TV shows with Kodi
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