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I'm thinking about replacing my main PC for a steam deck.

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[โ€“] SVcross@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for your answer! This does help me a lot to make a decision. Thank you very much!

[โ€“] Zelaf@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

I'm glad my tinkering could be of use to you!

I run my Deck as my primary computer and have been for about a year or so now. About 10 months without any Windows computer or alternative computer around. It's been shugging and tugging away at all my projects where I do audio editing, gaming, voice chat, using my Sony camera as a webcam, editing sheet music through MuseScore, intensive web development and managing my servers.

There's a lot that can be done with the Deck and I'm sure I'm in the 1% if not less of people using it as intensively as I am. I've made sure my Deck has a lock screen and has full disk encryption through LUKS as well which both is important to me since I work a lot on it when I'm away from home.

If you have any more thoughts regarding using the Deck as more of a PC I'll happily share some tips and answer any questions!