I’ve been thinking about this for a while. With the repairability of the steam deck and the power available to it, it seems like a no brainer to use it for a bit of school work or casual browsing, Discord etc. Like you would a normal desktop.
There’s a new product type popping up called LapDock that’s basically a hollowed out laptop but often with a giant battery, UPerfect has one and as well as the NexDock and they seem promising.
My personal biggest gripe is screen resolution and colour accuracy, as well as battery life. As I also do photography colour accuracy would be a great plus for me and as for resolution, I’ve been using 2k and higher screens for years and going back to 1080p seems like a bit of a turn off. However, UPerfect has monitor only types but having to set that up ontop of a mouse and keyboard while out and about seems less than ideal in comparison to a laptop.
Any thoughts on this? Anyone who’s tried it? Anyone who’ve tried desktop mode on high Res screens and seen any downsides, stutters, playback trouble, etc?
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 1 year ago
I use it for work in the rare occasions I go to the office, but there are monitors available there so I don’t have to rely on the device’s screen.
It works pretty well but I had to install a ton of development dependencies that tend to be standard in every Linux distro but are not there in the steam OS.
Plus some coworkers have heard that I work on a PSP, coding with the joystick buttons and that is a nice rumor I like to keep alive.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It gets a lot less painful when you can use Nix to install everything.
Zelaf@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
I want this rumour at my next workplace so that’s kinda making it more worth it lol
For the sake of the monitor it is also gonna be a “primary-ish” way for me to use it at home too so packing it up and down could potentially become a bit of a chore.