alt Hacker NewsStill more sensible than the 'my iPad is my main dev environment' fad from ~10 years ago. The Steam Deck is a fully fledged Linux desktop, not a defanged entertainment system.
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chorizo • today at 3:33 PM
SteamOS is Arch Linux under the hood. Mine is setup as a desktop with 4K monitor, keyboard, mice and webcam. Upgraded internal ssd, added an external drive. 16GB ram, cooling fan and AMD unified gpu. It’s designed to tolerate close to max cpu+gpu load indefinitely and runs my Vulkan simulation code overnight.
It's awesome as a desktop. Way better than modern windows. It's like a weird Linux laptop you can unplug from your dock and use comfortably laying down which most computers can't.