| ▲ | mcv a day ago | |
The Steam Deck is absolutely a full blown Linux. But it's not a desktop. It's a handheld. Well, unless you hook a screen and keyboard to it, I suppose. No idea how many people do that. But if you do that, phones and tablets also become desktops. | ||
| ▲ | palata 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
> unless you hook a screen and keyboard to it, I suppose. You can run Steam Deck in "Desktop mode" without hooking a screen and keyboard to it, and it will be running a full Desktop Linux environment. If I plug a screen and keyboard to my Android, it's still a mobile OS (e.g. made to run with a touch screen). Samsung has apparently "dex" and Google is working on convergence as well, but this is not yet a thing. I'm looking forward to being able to hook a screen and keyboard to an Android phone and have it behave like a Desktop Android, though :-). | ||
| ▲ | throwawayk7h a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
I attach screen + keyboard to it often. It has an official dock to facilitate this. In my mind, it's a device that can function as both desktop and hand-held. | ||
| ▲ | whatevaa 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
It is very visible that Desktop mode is not primary function of Steam Deck, though. Some weird behavior here and there, reboot always goes into gaming mode and so on. It's a gaming handheld first, desktop second. | ||
| ▲ | anon7000 a day ago | parent | prev [-] | |
I mean, a keyboard on iPad is way less powerful than a keyboard on steam deck. The steam deck can plug into a monitor and runs Plasma out of the box, which is a full blown desktop environment | ||