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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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[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months 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@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

From what I’ve read, yes.

[–] foggenbooty@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months 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.