Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
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:
[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[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.
If your post is only relevant to one hardware device (Deck/Machine/Frame/etc) please specify which one as part of the title or by using a device flair.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.
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Is steamdeck_linux a different community from steamdeck?
Yes, this was r/steamdeck_linux's sister community, I set this up around the time I made r/steamdeck_linux .
The subreddit was more for focusing on helping people use the Linux side of the Steam Deck.
This community, however, can be more broad, but it's the reason there's a Tux in the icon.
So how is Linux on Steam Deck? Can I do all my devvy things? VSCode, Go, NPM, Docker, etc
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.
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gets bounced back to start with every OS upgrade, and between SteamOS upgrades its Arch signing keys get pretty badly out of date.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.
@rotopenguin @nii236 There are ways around the issue of limited ability to install things, doing things similar to what Mac devs do when they run homebrew. nix is a pretty good one.
What I would love to see is more general use distros that retain at least the most important parts of the steam deck functionality as well. it would be nice to have a desktop that I could just drop into games without even closing my other apps and still not sacrificing on the UX.
@rotopenguin @nii236 you can even just run #holoiso on the deck to get all the good parts about steamos but without the immutability.
Yeah I guess at a certain point (carrying keyboard mouse around with the Deck), you're better off just using a laptop
@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
Nice! I can dev on the toilet now