I’m just happy that all the sources are made available by Valve to make this possible. Even though I wish they would upstream them much quicker. But at least it has enabled me to run a normal Linux distribution on my Deck and enhance it as I saw fit.
Bazzite is the next best thing to SteamOS while we wait on Valve
Submitted 2 months ago by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 months ago
Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
What are you running?
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 months 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.
rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio 2 months ago
I’ve been really happy with Bazzite on my laptop the last few months, although I seldom game these days.
My wife’s Windows laptop stopped working recently and I haven’t been able to repair it, so she’s been gaming on my laptop in the meantime. So far it’s been able to play everything she’s thrown at it without issue.
I’m sad that I haven’t been able to fix her laptop, but I’m kinda happy cause it means there’s no longer any Windows machines in the entire house, lol.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
On my (all AMD) computer it dropped the display signal as soon a there was load on the GPU when running Bazzite, so I went with Mint instead where I had to fuck around to make my wifi antenna work 🤷 Too bad because Bazzite looked awesome…
whatsgoingdom@rollenspiel.forum 2 months ago
Report it on the discourse site, the bazzite devs are respond really quick and are super helpful.
maomao@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I don’t see why valve doesn’t make a linux box, or distribute steam OS. The infrastructure is already there. It’ll be great for linux and gamers alike.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I’m sure both are on the to-do list
inlandempire@jlai.lu 2 months ago
Sounds like buying a steam deck with extra steps for the person who wrote this article haha
I do love how bazzite makes other gamefronts easily available on SD, though
dustyData@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Playing Windows only games from the epic store on a steam deck running Linux is a weird but pretty awesome flex. Emulating Nintendo games on it is the ultimate fuck you to Nintendo.
Cort@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The steamdeck emulated tears of the kingdom better than the switch itself on launch weekend.
BadlyDrawnRhino@aussie.zone 2 months ago
This is useful for countries where the Steam Deck is unavailable but other handhelds aren’t. Here in Australia, Steam Decks are only available as grey imports, and that makes warranty issues a potential headache, but you can walk into most electronic retailers and buy a ROG Ally off the shelf.
That said, I personally wouldn’t buy a handheld that didn’t have touchpads, so I bought a grey import and have had no issues.
gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Steam Deck is not available in all regions and grey imports can be a hassle, for some people this is the safer road
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Not that I care but clearly a lot of people appreciate the increased performance and resolution that other handhelds offer. And the vast majority of games don’t need touchpads.