Probably a good idea. The ice maker on mine had been serviced twice and still doesn’t work. And when it did the ice tasted terrible.

It already does. I dislike using Chrome. Firefox works better, looks better, and containers are really useful to me.

The fine print: Both monitors work, but one is mirrored with the device. At first I had issues with the resolution on one of them. Now they are both 1080P but with a longer than normal space between them when mousing from one to the other. You cannot see that on the screen, it seems normal, but moving the mouse from one monitor to the other is like a small dead space.

Also first post to Lemmy. I figure we all gotta contribute as I am liking it here.

My Firefox is synced with my desktop, Joplin is my note taker synced to an S3 instance. I use KDE connect on my desktop at home, I have not tried it with the steam deck, but I am thinking I should.

I added both Libre Office and Onlyoffice. I have found editing PDF’s a better experience in Libre Office. I had to fill out some custom forms for insurance purposes and Libre Office was better for that. If I had to I could launch Office 365 or use an Azure desktop, but I have not needed to.

Ok this is a bit potato. Sorry about that. I was trying to figure out how to show it was a steam deck AND prove it is running on it. Obviously this isn’t the way I would lay out the work normally, but I wanted to show many things at once. On the left is the Firefox Work Container with Remote Desktop in Azure. You can see Edge and Excel on a windows desktop. I use containers to keep work items separate from personal browsing. You can have many containers to isolate them from one another. Another way to connect to remote desktops that are on physical machines is using Remmina it supports RDP.

Above and to the right is Kate. Below that is Firefox with an amazon link to the USB device I am using: Caldigit usb C. It isn’t mine, like the monitors I am only borrowing it. I do carry an Anker one with me though.

On the right is Lemmy, and then far right is a concert being streamed and displayed using Firefox’s Picture in Picture with the sound playing over the portable Bluetooth JBL speaker (waterproof!). Because right now that is what I am doing, listening and watching this show.

Issues: full screen is weird on the left side, but you can use all the real estate if you dont ask for full screen. On the right, remote desktop gets odd when full screen if using an HTML browser interface.

Again sorry about the potato pic. When I am actually doing something I would layout the screen differently. And steam is running in the background, lol.

Edit: By the way posting images to imgur is so easy in KDE: just click the image to open it, select share > imgur. It will post to imgur and copy the url right into your clip board. Couldn’t be easier.

There are a few hurdles: if there isn’t a flatpak for software installs can get tricky. For instance look up about adding tailscale. Remember the system is Steam. You are basically a guest in that environment. It’s Arch, but steam is making sure it can boot and restore back to a working steam state.

Second, a single monitor, or using a even less powerful computer with steam link works great. Dual monitors has some issues.

But as a travel PC, I have been very happy with it. I too am a long time linux user, so nothing about the apps or os really surprises me. Linux has been my only os at home for a very long time.

I have exactly the opposite experience. Google has gone to shit, and duckduckgo gets me there faster 90% of the time. Plus the results are short and concise, or immediately helpful.

The SEO of the internet has really fucked googles algorithm. At least with duckduckgo I can end the search with !g to switch to google if I need a second go, but you cannot !d in google.

I never paid for Spotify and only rarely used it on the desktop if I was interested in hearing something someone mentioned or to look up something.

But I also gave up the buying music thing too, expect for very rarely. There is so much freely traded music, and tons of live music, and icecast and other radio stations are still a thing. There is more than I could listen to already.

Podcasts have replaced the vast majority listening time in the car.

Then at home while working it is SOMA FM radio. I do give them money I guess, but its all donation.

I would seperate the media server from gaming and work. Any old computer will do. 6 gb ram is more than enough. Put you dockers containers there for jellyfin, plex, web hosting, smb etc. It can run headless of course.

For your work station: install your home partition seperate from your OS. You can change your os at any time.

Endeavor works well but you will have to manually configure things like your smb shares, your firewall, etc. Other distros may have all that ready to go.