Comment on Bazzite is the next best thing to SteamOS while we wait on Valve

• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

  Hardest part was getting full disk encryption working with an on-screen keyboard to enter a passphrase at boot. I used unl0kr for that which wasn’t (probably still isn’t) in the OpenSUSE packages.

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  • narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Missing built-in FDE is one of my main gripes with SteamOS. It’s why I don’t really do anything besides gaming on the Deck. It’s a portable device that could easily be stolen or lost, so this seems like a major oversight.

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  • Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And hows the gaming part of things? How seamless is going to/from steam’s big picture mode?

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    • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I very rarely use big picture mode. I’m mostly on a KDE desktop. I’ve set up a shortcut to open Steam through gamescope in Big Picture mode for the rare occasion that I need it. In that case KDE’s wayland session keeps running in the background.

      I have also set up gamescope with Steam as a separate login session but I can’t remember if I ever felt the need to use that.

      Usually I just have Steam running in desktop mode in the background for the controller settings and the mostly superior on screen keyboard. I never noticed any slowdowns in games. I even managed to get Cities Skylines to run more stable than on SteamOS. But that might be due to zram.

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