• lengau@midwest.social
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    7 months ago

    If it’s “just a handheld PC,” how do I setup cups as a service that starts on boot?

    The answer: as a minimal change I have to enter developer mode and understand that the next update will wipe that away. (If I want to use it for this purpose regularly, it’d be better to install another OS, at which point you might as well call the Switch a handheld PC too.) This is a limitation of the Deck, but it’s a very intentional one. It’s a gaming appliance first and foremost, which makes the comparison to other gaming appliances apropos.

    Are “Steam Deck has X many games that Valve have certified on it, up from Y 17 minutes ago” articles particularly useful? Only really to people who are using them for ad revenue. But that doesn’t make the comparison to the Switch a bad one. In fact, comparing the Steam Deck to the Switch is a better comparison than comparing it to a gaming desktop.

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        7 months ago

        I don’t want to argue the semantics of whether or not it is a handheld PC

        And yet that’s exactly what you’re doing, and missing the forest for the trees as you do so…