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Steam Deck

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Especially since one of the best features is basically unmentioned. Turn on your steam deck and before you sign in for the first time, you can boot straight to the desktop. Just wish there was a toggle in Plasma to boot to desktop by default.

For all intents and purposes, you don’t need to log into steam to play games on the steam deck which is honestly shocking where most new hardware basically requires you to agree to sign in to begin using your device.

Looking at you Windows 11

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Welcome to Linux. It works great as a media center instead of your ad-ridden smart TV as well.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We both switch years ago on our laptops when Windows 11 became the default windows. Linux Mint ftw

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I just threw Fedora on my laptop to see what it's like, as I've only used Ubuntu and the like in the past.

I must say, Fedora 41 has been pretty great and rock solid. And it's Hella fast and responsive compared to Windows 11.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Linux has come a long way

[–] Landless2029 26 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Wait... Could you put bigscreen on the desktop mode, configure it with all the fixings, plug in a dock to TV and get a USB/bluetooth remote?

... Shit that's better than a mini ATX HTPC at $600 dollar for dollar since you can run away with it

[–] evulhotdog 8 points 2 weeks ago

From what I’ve read, yes.

[–] foggenbooty 6 points 2 weeks ago

Yes you can, I do that with mine a lot. The one caveat though that is a real bummer is I haven't been able to get surround sound working on it. Something limits it to stereo output. There should be some way around it, but I haven't found it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

There's also a script for Android TV on the deck that's pretty good, I didn't test it yet but I'll sure as hell be using that for my tv stuff

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Unless you have an abundance of Dolby Vision content on your media server. That's the only reason I need the Jellyfin app or the Kodi port for AndroidTV