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Budget gamer here. Looking to buy a laptop.
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Can you use a steam deck like a laptop? Can you do PC stuff with it like web browsing, email, etc?
Yes, albeit on a small screen unless you plug it in via dock or adapter to a larger screen.
Not sure why someone would want to.
Steam Deck is specifically for gaming. You "could" since it's a Linux.
But with $800, I would rather buy a SteamDeck for dedicated gaming, and a cheap Linux Thinkpad for dedicated laptop use. Rather than one single system that half asses both.
Jfc. How.big and beefy is your phone?!
I replaced my dying gaming laptop with a steam deck about a year ago now. At home I have it set up in a dock, connected to a good monitor with keyboard and mouse.
It does everything I want it to except, and I just found this out this week when trying to make some proxy cards so my kid can play Lorcana, that Arch Linux apparently doesn't support Brother printer drivers currently. Something about not having CUPS? I don't know but I'm a total Linux layman.
Fyi I just started !lorcana@lemmy.world
Oof. Sorry bro. You ran afoul of printers and cups. Brother used to be better than that.
Dont use printers. Problems solved. 😉
Edit, its linux at this point, you can emulated it one way or another right? It's all files.