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Re:How the Steam Deck breathes life into underrated old games by rlex on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @05:45PM (#34167053)
Well it isn't single-purpose, you can get browser, discord, spotify, irc or anything just by swapping to desktop mode... But i'd rather use my phone or pc for that and leave deck for games.

Also, on steamdeck subreddit i saw people using it as their main PC (not much power, but definitely more than enough for majority of day-to-day tasks, especially with external monitor). I recall motorola razr (android one) had dualboot (android + ubuntu), and when plugged to external monitor you was able to use it as a small PC. But due to pretty weak hardware back in 2011, this idea never took off.

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Re:How the Steam Deck breathes life into underrated old games by theshrike79 on Thursday December 29, 2022 @02:47AM (#34170470)
Of course you _can_, but in Steam Mode they're not readily available and won't entice you to check hackernews just this once =)
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