Just a reminder to everyone who hasn’t thought about it, but the Steam Deck works pretty good as an home theater PC.

I mainly watched Youtube on my smart TV before, but over the past year its remote reciever has been spotty. Eventually I learned that GrayJay has a flatpak version, which allows you to watch Youtube, Nebula, Patreon, Peertube, etc in a single interface without ads. And adding the flatpak as a non-Steam game to access it in Game Mode is easy.

Since my TV has enough physical buttons that I can manually switch the inputs without the remote, I could use the Steam Deck like an old physical Roku or ChromeCast.

I know some of you don’t like the group behind GrayJay (FUTO) or have Jellyfin servers and could get more use out of Kodi instead. That’s perfectly fine. The main point of the post is to encourage y’all to think outside the box on what you can use your Decks for, because it doesn’t have to just be for games.