If that is the direction he wants to go, a Win-tindo system might be the best. Unless he is totally on board with the limitations that Linux brings to the table, specially with respect to nVidia drivers. The Steam Deck had done good things for gaming on Linux, but live streaming and such is still pretty much a Windows platform thing. Luke and Linus at LTT did their Linux gaming challenge and, IIRC, streaming and co-op gaming was still an issue. This is their summary video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlg4K16ujFw. While it is 18 months old I don't know that the landscape has changed that much.
Kent On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 9:30 AM Paul Boniol <[email protected]> wrote: > A steam Deck looks interesting. Can it do Twitch Live streaming? I see > the dock has 3 USB.... He'd be looking to plug in a full keyboard, mouse, > camera, and headset? He and his friends are already doing that. > > Paul > > On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 7:41 AM Greg Donald <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 2:24 AM Paul Boniol <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > My son mentioned Steam. >> >> Have you considered a Steam Deck? It's everything you'd ever want in >> a Linux gaming platform. Works great on my big screen. >> >> https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck >> >> -- >> Greg Donald >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAO%2BWgCZvuOLW1EyiUq%3D%3DsfVvjL6u8p6xE88%2BRZdy8qOz_KqRWw%40mail.gmail.com >> . >> > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAL9PgS36Z_DFbQuXbBKtWi_4QqVzfGAQ--_UChmrAoZ5hxJggQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAL9PgS36Z_DFbQuXbBKtWi_4QqVzfGAQ--_UChmrAoZ5hxJggQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CA%2B6_KC_dLDESLANXR0f570MzetNf7tMH0eOmcdT8VU-DxrFsHQ%40mail.gmail.com.
