What are some cool addons to use your steam deck as a back up pc on the go? I'm hoping to maybe use teamviewer to phone back to my home pc. Are there any cool docks for the steamdeck with power pd, etc, etc. What do you guys use to use it as a pseudo laptop on the go?
>>108353907>Desktopizing a steam deckI sleep>'ick 'eckizing a steam deckReal shit
>>108353907this thread is made for me but there’s not much to say. I bring my steamdeck to class. use the dbrand case with the stand. keys to go 2 when i’m there. use the dock at home with a mx keyboard. other than the occasional comment on how weird it looks using a big switch looking thing, it’s kind of the perfect laptop replacement. sort of this weird tablet that runs arch linux with a 15 hour battery life I never deplete. on cold days it fits in my inner jacket pocket. I keep expecting to some find some problem or reason why it can’t be my only computer at home or in uni but it does literally everything plus, you know, it plays vidya. cheaper than an ipad or laptop too. that said, I think with the two keyboards I bought for it, and the dock, it may be pricier than some low tier ipads or laptops. I will say personally, there’s this one guy in class who takes notes on his macbook pro with an ipad pro and iphone 17 pro in little tablet stands to the left and right and I’m like, lol dude. maybe bringing my little valve made linux based computer with a shitty lcd screen that I got for 400 canadian isn’t that weird at all
>>108353907all i really use it for is to play rocket league against jeffrey epstein when im on my work layover and don't have access to desktop. sometimes i play skate or satisfactory as well. i wouldn't want to use it as a desktop.
>>108354015Do you dual boot? i'm thinking about either dual booting windows for my microsoft word stuff for class, or dual booting arch and just phoning home to my windows desktop. What's dual booting like on these devices?
>>108354015Or would it be better to just vmware a w11 image on the steamdeck? How do you think it would handle it? I just want to be able to game on the go since I have a lot of down time in my day, but also be able to use a non steamos limited os like arch or windows or phone home to my w11 desktop pc.
>>108354154>>108354174I dualboot win 10 ltsc specifically to play two games. it’s nice to have. both keyboards and my monitor have software that obviously only work in windows and macos so I just hop on over to my windows partition when necessary. super easy, just ran the clover install script and it’s been perfect so far, casually waiting for it to break but nothing yet. but 95% of my time is in steamos. I take design classes too and need certain software for assignments but these actually run great on linux. use libreoffice for essays and such and note taking. I’m not going to give you my whole plebbit ass life story but I decided to use my steamdeck as my primary computer tablet laptop gaming rig hybrid thing because of circumstance and instead of going out and buying a new ipad mini or mid range laptop, I was like, wait, I already have the steamdeck. I’ll just use that and see how it goes. and it’s awesome. keep waiting for the special unforeseen reason why it can’t work but, why would it? it’s literally just a linux computer crammed inside a gameboy. I would say the only thing that I’d prefer an ipad for is reading ebooks. but even that is… fine? pleasant even? lower the lcd brightness, turn on some warmth in nightmode, and just tap through the pages with the bumpers. I dunno. I do think the future of computers are devices like the steamdeck. whereas apple is segmenting their usecase through different devices, you can sort of just do it all with this one linux based thing with a bunch of gaming based input.
>>108353907Just get a proper Maid Computer like the GPD Win 4.
