Mostly decking about.
Ukrainians using it to control machine gun, so they dont have to expose themselves in trench warfare.
I use mine to run VJ software and do light shows at music events.
Since the deck is a powerful computer, and the form factor is quite compact, I find it better than laptops for the task.I connect it to my projector to watch content.
My friend screenshares shows with me and we watch and talk to help me fall asleep at night ❤️ It works better on the deck than my phone
That’s really sweet. A very good friendship!
I use it as my primary PC! It’s such an awesome and stable Linux experience
I also use it as a regular old PC. I work from home (design, illustration), and do all of it on a Deck plugged into a dock.
So much, that I slapped Bazzite on my 2 desktop PCs, and I have been thinking about Ublue Core for my server.
Thanks to Nixpkgs I’ve not had to worry about programs, but I sometimes miss having quicker access to DE and driver level stuff.
Does Bazzite have KDE 6 and fresher Bluez setup on the Deck?
I don’t use Bazzite on the Deck. I use it on my desktop rigs. Yes, Bazzite has KDE 6, it’s based on Fedora 41. As for Bluez, I don’t know, but everything I tried , worked flawlessly.
I watch movies and TV shows with Kodi
I use it as a general purpose computer. I set up an encrypted home partition by more or less following this guide: https://github.com/hirak99/steam_deck_encryption. I have a bag that nicely fits the deck, charging cable, dock, and a 60% keyboard for travel.
I just picked up a 144hz USB-C 16" monitor with a magnetic cover like a tablet. Paired it with a mini tripod and designed/printed a magnetic bracket so the monitor just snaps on. Slides right into my tiny 13L pack (barely).
60% keyboard
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Same, I use it as my travel laptop. I like this keyboard + stand.
I use a deck to control robots at a theme park.
I saw someone doing this and geeked out so hard. Such a cool use of the Deck.
I have it connected to my TV so I can stream sports.
Ah yes, “sports”, I got ya ;)
Producing audiobooks
I use it for 3D modeling using a BT keyboard and a drawing tablet. Works great with Blender and FreeCAD both.
How does the drawing tablet work for FreeCAD? And is it one with or without a screen?
Curious on the use case.
+1
For anyone wanting to take the deck to the next level and unlock more functionality I can warmly recommend https://bazzite.gg/
I don’t know why but bazzite for me was super unstable compared to holo os for my deck
Can you elaborate in which use case bazzite is better on deck than stock steamOS? Whats the difference in terms of battery life? What are the tradeoffs?
Personally don’t have a deck… yet. I run Bazzite as my OS on my PC though. However, I read and see a lot of people running Bazzite on decks on forums and discord. This is also where i’d recommend going for answers such as you asked for. If I had to guess there isn’t much difference when it comes to battery life - they’re both running the same kernel. The reason you would want to switch, as shown on their website is to unlock the ability to run flatpak on your deck.
The deck already supports flatpaks and it even comes with distrobox installed if you want to install normal packages. In my opinion there is no reason to switch from SteamOS to Bazzite on a Steam Deck.
I kinda wished you were able to back up your claims. The Steam deck can install flatpacks through discover just fine.
Bazzite doesn’t support the 64GB version of the deck. It’s the version I own.
I run a rebased kionite to bazzite on my desktop pc, so its not like I hate Bazzite, I love it. All in all not a very sensible recommendation, in my opinion the risk of bricking far outweigh the aesthetic appeal to run Wayland apps.
I run Bazzite on my PC, and have a Deck. I have found zero reason to put it on my Deck.
Fair enough, I’ve only assumed Steam deck was “locked” to steam, but turns out its not. My bad for not having done proper research here.
Mine spends a lot of time docked to the television so I can torrent/stream things.
