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[-] derin@lemmy.beru.co 48 points 1 year ago

My laptop's SSD died a while back, so I sent it away for repairs (yay, MSI's warranty).

In that brief period without a PC, my Steam Deck was a god send - used it as my main machine for 4 days. Was even able to work on it.

That's such a crazy addition to the value proposition, for me - totally makes it worth it.

Also, being able to play PS5 games in bed via Chiaki is delicious.

[-] Scio@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

I've been using it as my main (and only) machine for the whole year. Work included (dev, illustration, graphic design, cgi)

[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

I mean, that makes sense, because its just running (a slightly restricted) version Linux of under the hood, which I is what I run on my gaming and work pc

[-] msage@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

It's an immutable version of stripped Arch, dunno if that counts as 'slightly restricted'. You can disable the read-only mode if you want to and know what you're doing.

[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

That's why I said slightly, for the average user you can't do quite as much

[-] msage@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

I mean for average console user, you can do a whole lot. Even for your average Windows user.

And if you drive Linux... I'm not sure why you couldn't handle SteamOS?

[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can, what I am saying is the way the steamos is built, its a bit harder for new users to do more advanced stuff, not that its that limited. I so admit I could've phrased IT better though

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah but it's still a hand held, that kind of power isn't expected.

[-] prole@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Chiaki doesn't get enough credit.

[-] aubertlone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

How is your latency on Chiaki?

I have pretty decent home wifi and honestly...

It's just not a great experience.

Although tbf I installed it once on a macbook and the experience was not great. Didn't do hardly any finagling to improve latency

[-] derin@lemmy.beru.co 1 points 1 year ago

The latency is so low I don't notice it at all. Weird that you're having problems.

My ps5 is hooked up to the router via an ethernet cable, and I use a 5 Ghz network to play on. Never had any issues and never required any tweaking (played most of Jedi: Survivor with this setup).

this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2023
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