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Steam Deck

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A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.

Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.

As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title

The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.

Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.

These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.

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I used to use Apollo daily. I'm so glad someone suggested that I set up this sublemmy as a backup. Loving lemmy and this community so far.

I restricted the subreddit to allow any guides etc to be available again, but such that no new content can be posted. If Reddit really goes back on their changes, I might public it again, but tbh that's unlikely.

I have been blown away by the amount of people that have already jumped ship, and joined this little community. Honestly had almost forgotten I had set this up. Glad to see you all here!

Edit: just to be clear, I was the mod of r/steamdeck_linux, not the larger r/steamdeck. It was a smaller, but more linux focused, subreddit.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So how is Linux on Steam Deck? Can I do all my devvy things? VSCode, Go, NPM, Docker, etc

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, for sure. You likely will want to unlock root, and disable read only fs, to do so, but its basically a modified Arch. You can even install other distros if you feel so inclined.

One thing to note is that SteamOS updates are known to break pacmans package db.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can stretch SteamOS's capabilities out a little bit, but I wouldn't get too serious about it. The OS partition(s) don't have a lot of space, everything gets bounced back to start with every OS upgrade, and between SteamOS upgrades its Arch signing keys get pretty badly out of date.

I dunno how long it takes for the Deck's particular drivers to upstream to "real distros". Arch may already be there, Debian is probably not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I guess at a certain point (carrying keyboard mouse around with the Deck), you're better off just using a laptop

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@nii236 @rotopenguin

I don’t think so! I have an iclever portable keyboard that fits in my pocket even. Very portable companion to a device who’s purpose it to be “pocket” (more like small sling-bag) sized.

Link to the keyboard I use if curious: https://a.co/d/66lmyTl

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice! I can dev on the toilet now

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm a filthy Australian so I still can't buy it in stores here... :(