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gets bounced back to start with every OS upgrade, and between SteamOS upgrades its Arch signing keys get pretty badly out of date.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