I watch movies and TV shows with Kodi
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.
Producing audiobooks
What kind of workflow does this involve on your deck?
The Deck is plugged into a hub with a monitor, m+kb, and a focusrite Scarlett solo, and Reaper is the DAW I use.
It’s pretty much just plug and play, I may have had to finnick with the software to get the focusrite going right away but it wasn’t much time at all, if any. Other than that, recording and editing as normal!
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!
Yeah, the Steam Deck is kind of the middle ground between a too big laptop and too small phone screen.
I used mine to write an openSUSE image for my laptop, and a LibreELEC image for raspi just this weekend.
Streaming video to a TV
How?
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
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
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.
I use it as my primary PC! It’s such an awesome and stable Linux experience
Still have SteamOS on it or some other distro?
Still SteamOS. I tried bazzite since I loved it on my previous desktop I had but it was super unstable on my deck , no clue why.
I connect it to my projector to watch content.
Last Weekend I installed GNU Octave in Desktop Mode to plot a mathematical curve
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 is a place where tablets, even really low-end ones, are far superior. Hard to beat not having to zoom.
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.
Mine spends a lot of time docked to the television so I can torrent/stream things.
Mostly decking about.
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