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This would be great while on vacation.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I actually could see myself get an iPad now.

Sometimes I travel light and just bring my steam deck as a laptop. But for certain tasks and local multiplayer player games the screen is to small especially with it being a controller.

Then prop up an ipad and suddenly I have a 10 inch(I don’t know the size) screen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Android tablets are much much better for this. See super display

[–] hogart 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Super Display only seem to work if you get windows and dual boot. Seems to be 0 Linux support because of hw acceleration. Bummer. Thanks for the tip though!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Deskreen seems to do similar for Linux if mirroring a display. To do multi desktop it appears you need to have a virtual display adapter to make it work

[–] Boiglenoight 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That and as a computing device, the iPad’s battery life is second to none. My high end laptop meant for graphics and GIS lasts maybe an hour on battery. The iPad lasts half a day if not more with straight use.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah exactly. I would not buy an external display as 80% of the time it would be useless.

But an iPad I could actually use for other things then just screen mirror. Especially with that battery life.