Mine was $1! I love it. I just bought a wireless mouse and keyboard for it, because it's honestly just a great way to stream stuff. Now my computer can be in my living room, and my office at the same time!

[–] tyrant@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I've got one I never hooked up. Can you just control the computer in general or do you only get access to steam? I wanted to jellyfin with it maybe

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 16 points 9 months ago

You can do both. The default is Big Picture mode, but you can back out if it and get a desktop.

But, you'll basically have to be a foot or two from the PC to read anything unless you have a desktop environment set up for a large screen (KDE plasma has a TV version)

[–] dom@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can control the computer but it boots in big picture so you need to escape it to get to the desktop

[–] DaniloT@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Isn't that a setting, and you can make it connect without launching big picture, so it's basically just pc streaming?

[–] natebluehooves@pawb.social 5 points 9 months ago

Yes, I have one and remember doing just that.

[–] dom@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

Oh cool I didnt know that. That's handy

[–] Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 3 points 9 months ago

I remember that sale and annoyed I didn't buy one. At the time I thought I'd never use it. Fast forward a few years and I occasionally use Steam Link on a Raspberry Pi, so I would have used it. Oh well.