Ist there any alternative os beside steam OS and bazzite? Something based on opensuse or Debian?
Alternative OS?
Submitted 1 week ago by Fanmion@discuss.tchncs.de to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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cannedtuna@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Fanmion@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Thx, I know nobara top. No thanks fedora
colourlesspony@pawb.social 1 week 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.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 week 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.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 week 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.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
There’s ChimeraOS. Not sure what it’s based on.
Fanmion@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
No OLED SD support (As far as I can read based on their site)
Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week 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.
pogodem0n@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Steam Deck is just a computer. You can install any other Linux distro. Or Windows, if you are into that.
Fanmion@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Yeah I know, but I want a OS preconfigured for handhelds
pogodem0n@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Doesn’t SteamOS satisfy that requirement? What do you dislike about it?