What are (in your opnion) the must tweaks for steamos?

Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨steamdeck@sopuli.xyz⁩

Recently had a question about a game running on the deck, and actually got me thinking since steamos settings were briefly discussed: what are the settings to change for a steam deck, or tools to add? I do not mean more fps per say, but more battery life or just better tools for certain aspects of the deck.

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nyctre@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Decky loader with the protondb badge plugin was the biggest qol upgrade for me.

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- PlasticExistence@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I would say try out Junk Store for the alternative game stores so long as you’re using Decky Loader. I greatly prefer it over Heroic
  
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  - nyctre@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Thanks! Will check it out
    
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  - BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Junk Store dev gives me bad vibes and is charging money for GoG access, and after a recent update is forcing everyone to purchase a second license to access GoG again. I say fuck that noise
    
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- ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Decky loader is actually very interesting, thanks for sharing!
  
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Bogasse@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I like the vanilla experience with no fear of breaking with an update.

Although as I’m still nerdy I do a lot of per-game tweaking for steam input and a few launch scripts for non-steam games. The desktop utility from steamgriddb is also awesome if you manually setup non-steam games.

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endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
No plugins, just adjust max tdp and fps limit. I haven’t felt the need for any plugins save for protontricks for old and obscure games.

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- ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  This is also a good one. Do you notice any battery life changes after the tdp changes that are substantial? I never looked into it too much, but I assume there are very subtle ways to get a bit more battery without too much sacrifices
  
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  - Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    TDP limits can sometimes give you increased battery life with no change in game quality. However if you ever notice the game freezing or stuttering, make sure to disable TDP limit and see if that fixes it.
    
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  - endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Tdp and fps does a lot to save battery life. It saveshours on some games by not wasting resources running them faster than they need to be.
    
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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Heroic, Lutris or Bottles have to be installed to easier manage non-Steam games.

And BTRFS with compression and deduplication are great to save space.

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- plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Also curious how you did this. Seems like a big job to wipe and reinstall with btrs
  
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  - bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Ext4 can be converted to BTRFS without data loss. The only downside is that you lose ext4’s capability to have case insensitive folders.
    
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- filister@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  How did you do that? Did you re-format Steam Deck?
  
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  - Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    You can use this tool to convert the deck.
    
    The only downside I know of is that if your SteamOS install becomes corrupted (though a bug or from you messing something up), the Steam OS recovery drives won’t be able to fix it without wiping all your internal data. In comparison, with the original ext4 there’s a recovery option to only repair steamOS and leave your data intact.
    
    This isn’t as bad as it sounds, you can still manually backup any of your important data before wiping and restoring the drive (you can access the BTRFS system from the recovery drive, and copy anything important onto a microSD or other storage device), but it’s definitely less convenient.
    
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  - bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    There’s an easy tool to do that. The beauty of ext4 is that it can be converted to BTRFS without any data loss.
    
    Can’t remember what the tool is called and by now I don’t use SteamOS any more. But a search engine of your choice should find it.
    
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- mbirth@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  And BTRFS with compression and deduplication are great to save space.
  
  I’m not sure I’d go as far as replacing the file system. There’s a plethora of tools to do deduplication on ext4 as well. Albeit manually (or via cronjob).
  
  Also, btrfs seems to be slower for random reads than ext4. At least that was the case back in 2019.
  
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  - Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I’ve heard that using BTRFS with compression on a microSD and other slow access storage can actually speed up load times, because the biggest bottleneck is the read/write speed.
    
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- ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Interesting one. I was aware of btrfs but never thought about for the deck. Heroic is on my toolbox already
  
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