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).
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2024
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A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.
Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.
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This is a place where tablets, even really low-end ones, are far superior. Hard to beat not having to zoom.
Mine spends a lot of time docked to the television so I can torrent/stream things.
Basically everything. It's my only PC right now.
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.
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.
I watch movies and TV shows with Kodi
Mostly decking about.
I used mine to write an openSUSE image for my laptop, and a LibreELEC image for raspi just this weekend.
For anyone wanting to take the deck to the next level and unlock more functionality I can warmly recommend https://bazzite.gg/
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?
I don't know why but bazzite for me was super unstable compared to holo os for my deck