[theshrike79]

There's something magical about a single-purpose device.

There is no web browser, Discord, Spotify, IRC or anything. Just you and a thousand games you promised yourself you'd finish some day =)

[rlex]

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.

[theshrike79]

Of course you _can_, but in Steam Mode they're not readily available and won't entice you to check hackernews just this once =)

[deergomoo]

> There's something magical about a single-purpose device.

A couple of times a year I think about whether I should ditch music streaming and pick up an old iPod

[Zekio]

huh, I have all but IRC in steam mode though, just gotta add them as an "External Game" to steam while in desktop mode and it becomes available in steam mode