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.

Rules:

Follow the rules of Sopuli
Posts must be related to the Steam Deck 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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SteamFork is yet another Linux distribution aiming to be a SteamOS-like for handhelds (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is different from Bazzite and some of the other SteamOS similar operating systems by being as close to vanilla SteamOS as possible.

According to the devs:

It's a SteamOS based distribution that is intended to be as close to 1:1 compatible with upstream SteamOS as possible while making changes to support a wider range of hardware. It originated as a fork of HoloISO but it has been majorly overhauled to eliminate things like post-copy operations (as much as possible), introduce our own signed package repositories, add an automated release process, and provide many bug fixes and refinements. The focus has largely been on handheld gaming consoles, but it's in use on a variety of AMD based mini PCs as well.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

SteamFork is immutable so any changes may be lost, however it may be useful to update packages to work around a bug. To install packages locally temporarily:

Log into desktop mode and make the filesystem writeable: sudo steamos-readonly disable

Install or update the package: Ex. sudo pacman -Sy steamfork-customizations-jupiter

As cool as a new entry into the landscape is, this one still has the same filesystem limitations as SteamOS. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but I do wonder how this one will meaningfully distinguish itself from the others.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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