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Budget gamer here. Looking to buy a laptop.
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Spend $350 on a steam deck and $120 to upgrade it to 1 TB storage.
Only negative is if you're into multi-player fps games like fortnite and such. Anti cheat software a lot of them use aren't Linux compatible. You can install windows, but that's a pretty meh experience.
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.
To have a better ex0erience than simply using your cell phone you can plug the deck into a dock and use an external screen and mouse and keyboard.
The steam deck is a computer with 16 gigs ram and an AMD APU. Flat out. It comes with a custom Linux distro set up to play games, but you can install any OS (or multiple OS') and use it any way you could use any other PC.
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
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.