Wow cool. That’s Basically turning it into a simple cyberdeck
I did a cyberdeck chuckle too when first doing this square peg in round hole -type exercise 😄
Damn I have to consider those. Using the terminal with the screen keyboard is pain due to missing keys
missing keys
that’s the biggest war crime that valve has committed with the deck and no idea how they think it’s acceptable
In case you didn’t know, you can install a different onscreen keyboard from Discovery. It’d be nice if the default keyboard didn’t lack those fundamental features, though.
and it does replace the shortcut with steam+X aswell or would i need to do anything else to change that?
Not with the one I installed (CoreKeyboard). And it’s only usable in Desktop mode.
Once in Desktop mode, you have to launch it (or set it to auto launch). Then it puts an icon in the system tray and you can click that to show the keyboard. There’s a key on the keyboard to hide it.
There’s probably a better keyboard out there for the Steam Deck specifically, but for my purposes it works well enough.
fit perfectly
Does that keyboard fit in the case while closed? I don’t need a keyboard with the deck often, but it would be nice to have one with it all the time for that off chance I do. The times I need a keyboard I really need a keyboard.
the kb fits the elastic in the back when carrying, not inside like this tdough.
My fave travel keyboard. So sad MS never made a USBC version.
FFS, just get a laptop and stop pretending 😂
Haters gonna hate.
Got a laptop, use it for laptop shit. Got a Steamdeck, rarely need to do heavy typing on it, but when modding games I have to connect a keyboard and mouse to do so efficiently. Saw this solution and thought “hell yeah, great idea!”. Bringing an easy to store/portable keyboard around for occasional use is way better than bringing a laptop and controller around when all you want to do is some gaming.
I’m not hating, just seems silly to get a portable gaming system to use kb+m when a laptop could do so much more for similar size/weight/cost.
I guess it all seems arbitrary to someone who could barely afford a used PS4 😂😭
@GrammatonCleric @SquirtleHermit
It all goes down to personal preference.
Do you need a PC shaped like a PC, which needs extra stuff connected to become a gaming device.…or a console-shaped PC, which needs extra stuff connected to become a regular PC?
There is no wrong answer IMO
I could see the utility of this for certain games where you need to type, but only for a minute
Same energy
