Mine was $1! I love it. I just bought a wireless mouse and keyboard for it, because it's honestly just a great way to stream stuff. Now my computer can be in my living room, and my office at the same time!

[–] tyrant@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I've got one I never hooked up. Can you just control the computer in general or do you only get access to steam? I wanted to jellyfin with it maybe

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can do both. The default is Big Picture mode, but you can back out if it and get a desktop.

But, you'll basically have to be a foot or two from the PC to read anything unless you have a desktop environment set up for a large screen (KDE plasma has a TV version)

[–] some_guy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dudes never heard of DPI settings lol

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Jacking with the DPI doesn't really help a lot if the desktop environment is laid out to be viewed at 24" instead of 6+ feet.

Plus, unless you have it set up to automatically apply those settings on connection, you'll still need to be up close to change things.

[–] dom@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can control the computer but it boots in big picture so you need to escape it to get to the desktop

[–] DaniloT@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Isn't that a setting, and you can make it connect without launching big picture, so it's basically just pc streaming?

[–] natebluehooves@pawb.social 5 points 10 months ago

Yes, I have one and remember doing just that.

[–] dom@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

Oh cool I didnt know that. That's handy

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can control it in general, but the first few times you'll have to run over and look at the monitor to do stuff.
It generally assumes it's being used "close" to the computer, so instead of complex pairing, it just shows a code on one you type into the other.
Sometimes windows will get antsy and pop up a dialogue that can only be interacted with locally, but it's only one or twice ever.

[–] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 10 months ago

So, would you say, shit just works?

[–] Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago

I remember that sale and annoyed I didn't buy one. At the time I thought I'd never use it. Fast forward a few years and I occasionally use Steam Link on a Raspberry Pi, so I would have used it. Oh well.

[–] nihth@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Think about it though. Probably some overlap with the deck. And hiring one dev very part time to keep this thing alive is nothing for them. Which makes the steam deck way more lucrative

[–] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Tell me you don't know how valve works without telling me you don't know how valve works.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How do they work?

[–] PotatoKat@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Flat structure. If you want to work on something, work on it; if it's not interesting to you, find something else. If you have an idea find people that also seem passionate for it and start making it, if you can't find people then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It's why valve rarely makes anything, but when they do it's super high quality

[–] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

Means that there is this one dev who still likes to use his steam link and so he keeps maintaining the project