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Bazzite is the next best thing to SteamOS [for other handhelds] while we wait on Valve
(arstechnica.com)
A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.
Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
And hows the gaming part of things? How seamless is going to/from steam's big picture mode?
I very rarely use big picture mode. I'm mostly on a KDE desktop. I've set up a shortcut to open Steam through gamescope in Big Picture mode for the rare occasion that I need it. In that case KDE's wayland session keeps running in the background.
I have also set up gamescope with Steam as a separate login session but I can't remember if I ever felt the need to use that.
Usually I just have Steam running in desktop mode in the background for the controller settings and the mostly superior on screen keyboard. I never noticed any slowdowns in games. I even managed to get Cities Skylines to run more stable than on SteamOS. But that might be due to zram.