this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2025
93 points (98.9% liked)

Linux

8785 readers
478 users here now

A community for everything relating to the GNU/Linux operating system (except the memes!)

Also, check out:

Original icon base courtesy of lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Hello_there@fedia.io 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Can I use a steam deck to code things for my steam deck?

[–] deeves@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yes! You could even download Godot from the steam store for free and it will always be kept updated to the latest version. Same for Blender!

[–] bipedalsheep@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

However, since currently the Godot launcher is bundled together with the Godot Engine version and all that updates together, late in development of a project you'd want to avoid auto updates since it may break your project at unfortunate times by introducing feature incompatibilities though feature depreciation or regression bugs that causes issues for your game.

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Just adding to this for other people that don't know: you can also install most* standard Linux applications and tools on SteamOS, as long as it's available as a Flatpak, or you can install it to your user directory. Technically, you can even bypass that last caveat and install whatever you want, but you're going to have a bad time if you don't know what you're doing.

Alternatively, you can install any Linux distro on your Steam Deck if game dev isn't a good experience for you on SteamOS. In fact, Bazzite is working on a GDX (Game Developer eXperience) edition, and will likely be a solid choice once it's ready.

load more comments (2 replies)