I reserved a Deck day one within a minute and I think I might be in the initial launch (still no expected ship date listed though the payment processed and I got the confirmation email within a couple minutes). Whenever I get it, I'm hyped.
I'm not a typical user. I do enjoy handheld games, but I also am an Arch Linux user (btw), I deploy servers, I write code, blah blah blah. My current personal computer is an old T430, and I plan to use my deck as a daily driver as a desktop at home, a media center on the couch, handheld in bed, and a tablet on the go. To meet those use cases I plan to do a custom Arch install.
Is anyone else planning on doing something similar?
Some things I'm starting to plan out are:
- Some sort of custom lockscreen that can use the deck controls to unlock or an onscreen keyboard.
- E-reader mode
- Audio mode
- Kodi for media center and plex
- RetroArch for retro games
- Steam (of course)
- Removal of telemetry and possibly iptable rules to block Steam telemetry if any
- Graphical interface to do basic maintenance tasks without a keyboard (like a script launcher window). This could probably be the app launcher in gnome with some custom desktop entries
