annoyed_onion
@annoyed_onion@lemmy.world
Career coder, bread baker, coffee consumer, Linux luser, hermit ham
- Comment on Does anyone else use their steam deck as a PC? How's it? 3 weeks ago:
Yep, started of with the stock OS and distrobox for dev stuff. I had occasional issues with multi monitor setup so ended up just using 1 on its own.
Recently put cachyOS handheld on it instead.
No problems with it so far. For gaming I mainly use it hooked up to either a monitor or TV but handheld works fine too.
Dev wise, I’ve gone down the docker rabbit hole and had no issues so far with it.
- Comment on Youtuber PewDiePie is going all in on deGoogling and the Steam Deck is one of the surprising tools that's helping him to 'escape' 3 months ago:
I use mine as my main desktop pc. I’ve put cachyOS on it (handheld edition).
It depends on what software you need to run though. I’m a programmer so Linux for me is great but it might not support all the software you currently use.
I still have my old laptop, again running cachyOS, for sitting on the couch or going portable. I have tried using the deck on its own sitting in a dock with a Bluetooth mouse and KB. It works fine but the screen is very small so I prefer the laptop.
You could maybe try dual booting your laptop with a beginner friendly distro like Ubuntu, fedora, or bazzite (if you want gaming) to dip your toe in the water before fully diving in.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #9 6 months ago:
Thanks for putting this together!