Comment on Does anyone else use their steam deck as a PC? How's it?
Zelaf@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
My Steam Deck has been my primary and only PC for almost 2 years. My laptop that I had broke and instead of buying a new one I decided to buy adapters and a portable monitor. I rarely game on it but manage my homelab and do web development.
I’ve been trying some different distros over time and currently I’ve been sticking with NixOS, however it’s been giving me some minor inconveniences here and there so I’ve been thinning of moving back to Nobara again.
When I do game I never really leave desktop mode and just play it normally. Lately I’ve been playing Peak, No Man’s Sky, Stardew Valley and occasionally some VRChat.
Overall, it’s great, my steam deck works well as a secondary screen while plugged into my monitor. I place my chats and stuff there and then I do whatever else on the main screen.
shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Is it LCD or OLED? I’ve heard a couple of times people keep the steam deck screen off while docked to prevent burn-in on OLEDs, but idk if that is a real concern with the steamdeck?
morgan_423@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s my daily driver as well, I’ve had both LCD and OLED, and native display is normally off for both when I’m docked to my monitor. Personal preference, I don’t need the small Deck screen as a second monitor 99% of the time when I’m setting five feet (1.5m) away, and I don’t like losing my mouse cursor in it.
tekeous@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
OLED burn in isn’t an issue because you can replace the screen inexpensively if it does burn, and I’ve never heard of burn in on an OLED SD. Can keep the screen off anyway because it’s too small to be of use on a desk.
Burn in is a problem on stuff like OLED tvs because your options are to warranty or chuck the tv and get a new one if it burns. Steam deck is repairable.
Zelaf@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Mines an LCD. So I don’t really worry about burn in on it. However my portable monitor is an OLED which I do worry about burn in on so I have my screen off time quite low.