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Doing my part (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I'm waiting for the survey to reach me on my Steam Deck running OpenSUSE. I wonder if they keep a special eye on Decks not running SteamOS.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    How is it? I use openSUSE on everything (desktop, laptop, NAS, VPS), except my Steam Deck.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    A little bit janky if I'm being honest, but I still prefer it. Like, I use four different types of on screen keyboard (Steam's for everyday stuff, Onboard when I need special keys, Maliit on the lock screen, unl0kr (which cannot handle the Deck's screen rotation yet) to decrypt the drive on boot).

    For the installation I had to use the Gnome live image because it was the only one with a usable keyboard. So I guess that makes five different keyboards I used.

    I had to do a lot of customisation to get it to a state I'm comfortable with. But on the plus side I don't have to fight against the system to do it. My main motivation was to get encryption working.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Cool, if you have a writeup about it, I'd love to give it a read. So the challenges you had, solutions you came up with, and ergonomics vs original SteamOS.

    I don't have any complaints right now, but I like openSUSE and sometimes like to tinker. As long as the controller works well through Steam, I'd probably keep it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I've recently made two posts about the keyboards and for the encryption there's a bug report about unl0kr in Bazzite where I added a comment. Unfortunately I don't have the energy for a more detailed writeup, but it should be enough to get you started.

    The controller works out of the box as a mouse. You just need to have an on screen keyboard installed (or a real one attached via USB) to handle everything else. If you like Gnome that should actually work better out of the box than KDE.

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