Alternative OS?

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• pogodem0n@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Steam Deck is just a computer. You can install any other Linux distro. Or Windows, if you are into that.

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  • Fanmion@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah I know, but I want a OS preconfigured for handhelds

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    • pogodem0n@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Doesn’t SteamOS satisfy that requirement? What do you dislike about it?

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• cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nobara and CachyOS both have builds preconfigured for handhelds.

  Nobara based on Fedora

  CachyOS based on Arch

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  • Fanmion@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thx, I know nobara top. No thanks fedora

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• colourlesspony@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There is ChimeraOS for gaming. You can install most modern distros and the gamepad will still work like a gamepad. Navigating most DE will be problematic with out a keyboard and mouse though.

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  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    At least the mouse is emulated by default in the gamepad’s “lizard mode”. And when you run Steam you get the same functionality as on the Deck.

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• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just about any distribution should work out of the box. At least on the LCD model. Don’t know how far the kernel sources are upstreamed for the OLED model.

  I run OpenSUSE on my Deck. I did some tinkering to get it to a state I like. Unfortunately I don’t have the energy to list everything. For many things I have created posts on Lemmy, should be my older stuff.

  At gitlab.com/evlaV you can find all the sources from Valve’s changes. If you have an OLED model you should be able to get a fully working kernel from here. For my LCD I created DKMS modules for the fan and controller.

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• hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There’s ChimeraOS. Not sure what it’s based on.

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  • Fanmion@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No OLED SD support (As far as I can read based on their site)

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• Creat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There’s also PikaOS. It’s using Debian mechanics (so apt as the package manager and such), but a modern kernel and their own repos. If you’re more used to this world, might be worth a look.

  I personally also came from a mostly debian background, but ended up going with CachyOS for my desktop needs. It’s arch based, and just very polished and well thought out.

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