It uses X11. I am using Foxglove on a container and exposing a port. I didn't tried Rviz, but it probably is not straightforward to make it work. So I went directly to a web-based viewer.
The downside to disable the read only system file is that you will delete any changed file and installed package when you update SteamOS.
I used homebrew to install podman. Since homebrew creates a folder in /home/linuxbrew/ there is no problem with the read only system.
Yeah, although I don't like this approach. Using containers seems to be the best choice here. In this way you can keep the default/custom Steam bindings, which is very useful. And you don't have the audio, sleep, OS or battery problems they talk in the video. I would argue that "desktop use" is not the best use for a Steam Deck, but more as a field computer.
Yes, I believe it has plenty advantages in using the steam deck vs android tablets. Instead of installing Ubuntu on my Steam Deck, I utilize Podman and Podman Compose to launch the necessary ROS nodes.
My Steam Deck records compressed RGB+D and LiDAR data into rosbags, while running a LOAM-based algorithm and visualizing the map in real-time. During this process, the CPU usage remains around 70%. The primary consumer of system resources was Chrome, (running Foxglove), which accounted for approximately 17% of CPU usage. This leaves room to experiment with more resource-intensive algorithms (which I will be doing in the future). I think I could not have managed this in a tablet for the price of the Steam Deck.
The presence of joysticks on the Steam Deck proves useful for utilizing it as a controller, another benefit versus using an Android tablet. Although I have not yet messed with the joysticks, only with the back buttons to add a few keybindings.
I can help you mod this community if you want.
Make sense. I'll make a comment so you can add me as a mod
Seems good to me
You can add me to c/julia, I already made a post.
No, I never went to a ROSCon, in 2018 I wasn't yet acquainted with ROS. I think the ROScon France is not held in English. The Germany one I can't go, but I am hopping that becomes a recurrent event.
I didn't know about that repost feature, it seems awesome. I am from Europe, so I won't go this year.
I have some experience with Julia (not extensive) I can help to mod if it is added.
I use both Julia and Rust, I did shot a few times in the foot with Julia (for instance, getting memory leaks on the GPU). Now, I use Julia (the REPL) when I want to quickly script some code and use Pluto.jl to plot data and teach programming.