Comment on Bazzite as an alternative to SteamOS?
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 8 months ago
I’d say SteamOS is a viable emergency laptop replacement as is. You can already use most office software in desktop mode.
Comment on Bazzite as an alternative to SteamOS?
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 8 months ago
I’d say SteamOS is a viable emergency laptop replacement as is. You can already use most office software in desktop mode.
Qual@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The only problem that I had is that Steam OS doesn’t offer any full disk encryption. But I think I could just solve that with a veracrypt container. Even if an attacker gets access to the deck then they should not be able to decrypt the container.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 8 months ago
Yeah, trouble with Bazzite at the moment is that you need a keyboard to decrypt it on boot for now. I’m waiting for the ability to enter my passphrase with the touchscreen.
Qual@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, that would be a little problematic for something that is necessary on the go. Can you not just use a hardware key to prompt the paraphrase every time you boot ?
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 8 months ago
No idea. But I would even be too lazy to pop in a hardware key. And too paranoid about getting the key stolen along with the Deck.
andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 8 months ago
Doesn’t yubikey have an HID mode where it acts like a keyboard and types a static phrase? You could do something like that for boot. Or possibly more complicated. Idk if modern bootloaders support cooler modes where the key resides on the yubikey.