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A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.

Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.

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[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
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Follow the rules of Sopuli
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No piracy, there are other communities for that.
Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
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[help] Getting my first steam deck tomorrow (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Getting my steam deck tomorrow. Already had Linux like steam deck on my laptop a while ago (didn't work well because fuck Nvidia)

But wanted to know what you all think is important to put on a steam deck, that's not something that's not what duckduckgo says with the websites it has. (I worded that horribly)

What are some niche things can I could do/install/play on the steam deck that most people wouldn't really do or think about doing?

I don't know a lot about Linux as I wish but I know a ok ish amount. Just wanting to find anything really interesting or useful to do with my steam deck

Also anybody know any casual games I can play randomly on public transit and don't have to sit down and play. Things that I can just easily stop. (Something like balentro kinda way you can just stop whenever)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

Setup Nixpkgs. Learn Home-Manager. If anything doesn't exist on Flathub, install it through Nixpkgs instead of disabling immutability and resorting to pacman only to have it wiped after an update. And for temporary tinkering, use nix-shell.

The determinate.systems Nix installer directly supports the Steam Deck.

[–] RmDebArc_5 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Never used Nixpkgs, but isn’t it a bit more advanced and not really for beginners?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Comparatively, yes. But trying to install apps or programs on the Deck if they are not on Flathub is quite a common use-case, I find. And it's a lot more stable and less frustrating than temporarily installing packages through Pacman!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

trying to install apps or programs on the Deck if they are not on Flathub is quite a common use-case

an average user should not have this problem on the first week

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