I temporarily used it as a computer (mostly just firefox tbh) when my main computer was out of order, normally no.
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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.
gnome network displays is on flathub and works from KDE Plasma
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?
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.
Last Weekend I installed GNU Octave in Desktop Mode to plot a mathematical curve
I use a deck to control robots at a theme park.
I saw someone doing this and geeked out so hard. Such a cool use of the Deck.
I use it as a general purpose computer. I set up an encrypted home partition by more or less following this guide: https://github.com/hirak99/steam_deck_encryption. I have a bag that nicely fits the deck, charging cable, dock, and a 60% keyboard for travel.
60% keyboard
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I use it as my primary PC! It's such an awesome and stable Linux experience
Same, I use it as a PC to learn English, browse the Internet, play music and videos, write, and manage my files.
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My friend screenshares shows with me and we watch and talk to help me fall asleep at night ❤️ It works better on the deck than my phone
That's really sweet. A very good friendship!
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Ukrainians using it to control machine gun, so they dont have to expose themselves in trench warfare.
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I have it connected to my TV so I can stream sports.
Ah yes, "sports", I got ya ;)
I use it for 3D modeling using a BT keyboard and a drawing tablet. Works great with Blender and FreeCAD both.
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I also use it as a regular old PC. I work from home (design, illustration), and do all of it on a Deck plugged into a dock.
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Mine spends a lot of time docked to the television so I can torrent/stream things.
Though I have yet to get a Deck for myself, I'd probably use it a lot to read comics. Having used the Vita a lot for that, being able to control the comics with a physical controller was fantastic, and the far greater processing power of the Deck should also avoid pages taking a long while to load (loading Humble Bundle's ebooks in measly 512 MB of RAM is an experience).
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