I used to use Apollo daily. I’m so glad someone suggested that I set up this sublemmy as a backup. Loving lemmy and this community so far.

I restricted the subreddit to allow any guides etc to be available again, but such that no new content can be posted. If Reddit really goes back on their changes, I might public it again, but tbh that’s unlikely.

I have been blown away by the amount of people that have already jumped ship, and joined this little community. Honestly had almost forgotten I had set this up. Glad to see you all here!

Edit: just to be clear, I was the mod of r/steamdeck_linux, not the larger r/steamdeck. It was a smaller, but more linux focused, subreddit.

    • Moxvallix@sopuli.xyzOPMEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • rotopenguinEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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gets bounced back to start with every OS upgrade, and between SteamOS upgrades its Arch signing keys get pretty badly out of date.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.

      • nii236@lemmy.jtmn.devEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yeah I guess at a certain point (carrying keyboard mouse around with the Deck), you’re better off just using a laptop

      • 73 million seconds@fosstodon.org
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        1 year ago

        @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.