Just a reminder to everyone who hasn’t thought about it, but the Steam Deck works pretty good as an home theater PC.
I mainly watched Youtube on my smart TV before, but over the past year its remote reciever has been spotty. Eventually I learned that GrayJay has a flatpak version, which allows you to watch Youtube, Nebula, Patreon, Peertube, etc in a single interface without ads. And adding the flatpak as a non-Steam game to access it in Game Mode is easy.
Since my TV has enough physical buttons that I can manually switch the inputs without the remote, I could use the Steam Deck like an old physical Roku or ChromeCast.
I know some of you don’t like the group behind GrayJay (FUTO) or have Jellyfin servers and could get more use out of Kodi instead. That’s perfectly fine. The main point of the post is to encourage y’all to think outside the box on what you can use your Decks for, because it doesn’t have to just be for games.
Yeah that’s what’s great with the Deck.
Even if one day it’s not gonna be poweful enough as a gaming handheld, you can still use it as a poweful admin computer if you have a dock, avoiding a bit of e-wate.
I have all the Playstations except the first one and they’ll probably just become bookshelves or pieces of art when I put my hands on a Steam Machine to go along my Steam Deck.
It will always be powerful enough to be a gaming handheld, because it’s an excellent emulation machine!
True, but for this I plan on using a Steam Machine to be able to emulate a PS3 since almost everything after that era is available on PC.
Also it’s be easier for peripherals like the ones you get with Buzz games.