Comment on Any desktop-mode tips for a new Steam Deck owner?

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Vulwsztyn@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wanted to suggest the same thing.

  Bazzite is immutable tho, unless I’m mistaken, so if you’d rather use a mutable distro you can look into CachyOS or DraugrOS.

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  • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bazzite will present a similar experience to SteamOS. They’re both immutable/atomic in the same way, but Bazzite has the ability to persist some system changes via package layering, and distrobox allows for installing packages in a semi-traditional way.

    But I agree, if you want a more standard Linux experience, CachyOS and others would be better.

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• NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thanks for the advice. I’ll consider it long-term, but want to stick with SteamOS for now. I gave a more detailed reply to a different comment if you’re interested in reading it.

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  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hmm, yeah I read that. I think you are just not the target audience of SteamOS. It’s more or less meant for people who don’t want to tinker.

    If you’re already familiar with Cachy it’s probably a great choice. Personally I went with OpenSUSE which was quite a hassle to get set up like I want. Especially since I couldn’t be bothered to hook up a keyboard. But I think Cachy has all the stuff I had to add manually already integrated.

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yep yep!

  I lost my main PC a while back, and have just been daily driving Bazzite on my Deck, with a dock, keyboard mouse, etc.

  Works great!

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