u/transientpunk — Transient Punk

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Does anyone else use their steam deck as a PC? How's it? · 148 points · 41 comments
Does anyone else use their steam deck as a PC? How's it? · 148 points · 41 comments
Valve's huge Steam Deck update is now ready for everyone, including rival AMD handhelds · 203 points · 36 comments
How good is the Steam Deck really? (Not a gamer) · 110 points · 47 comments

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4 points · 2025-09-27T19:58:42.201002Z

It's just Nobara for now. If I decide to upgrade the storage I may choose to dual boot, but, I haven't had a need to yet

29 points · 2025-09-27T06:40:32.196054Z

I use my Steam Deck as a PC. I mainly use it for web development. The integration between my containerized services (via distrobox) and my IDE was giving me problems, so I went with Nobara Linux. I don't do a ton of gaming on it these days, but when I do, it is usually 2d games. They work absolutely wonderfully. At the end of the day, it's just a laptop, and in desktop mode (with an external monitor and keyboard), it is perfectly capable of everything I need it to do.

6 points · 2025-05-23T02:53:50.967606Z

I'm so glad I bought an additional 3 Steam Controllers when they went on sale before being discontinued. I loved mine too much to risk not having another if it broke

29 points · 2024-08-22T22:08:42.761837Z

and very old titles that have weirdly restrictive resolutions or control schemes or whathaveyou.

This is correct, but as an addendum, for a lot of very old games (that don't fall into that previous category), it's usually easier to get them working under Linux than it is under Windows. Go figure.