Comment on PSA: The Deck works well as an HTPC while docked
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Yeah I just use my Steam Deck as my main computer, everyone always seems to be surprised but like… the reason I didn’t buy a Nintendo Switch was so I wouldn’t have a piece of essentially bricked hardware outside of very narrow controls…
natecox@programming.dev 1 day ago
I wanted to use the deck as a PC but I couldn’t do any dev work on it without jumping through hoops thanks to a lack of tooling provided and the immutable nature of SteamOS.
However, replacing StreamOS with CachyOS Handheld has reopened doors there in a big way.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I am going to make a post soon, especially if people are interested, about how to use Boxbuddy with Distrobox to create mutable atomized linux distributions you can add packages to and do whatever you want with while retaining the vanilla immutable Vanilla SteamOS settings.
I am still encountering some limitations but I have Debian with R and Python along with multiple geospatial packages for both languages and Pandoc installed in an atomized linux distribution and it works great. I just installed emacs on the atomized linux distribution itself and having been using org mode to execute R and Python with codeblocks and set up a workflow that way.
homik@slrpnk.net 23 hours ago
I would expect a container to be an easy solution there.