Getting my steam deck tomorrow. Already had Linux like steam deck on my laptop a while ago (didn’t work well because fuck Nvidia)

But wanted to know what you all think is important to put on a steam deck, that’s not something that’s not what duckduckgo says with the websites it has. (I worded that horribly)

What are some niche things can I could do/install/play on the steam deck that most people wouldn’t really do or think about doing?

I don’t know a lot about Linux as I wish but I know a ok ish amount. Just wanting to find anything really interesting or useful to do with my steam deck

Also anybody know any casual games I can play randomly on public transit and don’t have to sit down and play. Things that I can just easily stop. (Something like balentro kinda way you can just stop whenever)

  • Stampela@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    11 days ago

    The main thing IMO is to get some hands on time with it. Figure what you want, what you like, and most importantly what you would like to see improved… and go from there. See if you prefer to use it as a console, or if you want more of a gaming computer and use regularly the desktop. Maybe you’ll want a dock and how you want it will depend on your needs. You get my point :D

    Anyway for the laptop see if you like https://nobaraproject.org/download-nobara/ specifically the Nvidia one so it has the drivers pre installed. I use it “everywhere”

    • thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      3·
      11 days ago

      Got the dock with it, it will be basically a replacement for my laptop and I nobora is one of them it tried and for some reason my specific laptop and Nvidia just doesn’t work well for gaming on Linux. Spent literally days on random shit that and everything I found didn’t work or made it worse.

      So it will be like a semi replacement for my laptop and a console on my big screen tv basically.

      Well replacement for everything that microcrap hasn’t forced on to me that I can’t use on Linux. I’m just going to sunshine to my old laptop anyways and put the laptop near my cluster of server type computers.

      • Stampela@startrek.websiteEnglish
        1·
        11 days ago

        A thing about the official dock, maybe it’s just my setup BUT: it drains the battery. It doesn’t look like it, but if it’s off or suspended, the Deck loses charge while connected to the dock, then you grab it to use it (and the battery is like 97%!) but within 5 minutes it’s completely dead. Again, it might be just my setup, but now I unplug the Deck from the dock once it’s off.

        • thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
          1·
          11 days ago

          Thank you, I will look out for that. If it does I’ll just return it as defective and get a dock somewhere else. Much appreciated, thank you.

          • Stampela@startrek.websiteEnglish
            1·
            10 days ago

            It takes days to actually drain the battery a significant amount, you’re not going to notice it during the honeymoon phase :P

            I noticed it because my Deck lives most of the time on the dock.