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Steam Deck

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This is just talking about games approved through Valve's verification process. There are a lot of games that work that are "unverified", not to mention the entire history of gaming available through emulation.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/21835717

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[–] gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (8 children)

They really couldn't, it's just a Linux PC. Worst case scenario you could format the drive and install regular arch Linux on it (SteamOS is arch based, and you can add the repos for all of the custom steam packages to a standard arch install). Unlike the switch, you have direct, firmware level control over the hardware, which is why I bought it. I want to encourage more manufacturers to not lock down their hardware

Hell, you could install Windows on the thing if you really wanted to.

[–] jahruhn@mastodon.online 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

@gh0stcassette @dustyData or Manjaro + KDE as they recommend for their dev environment.

[–] gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't like Manjaro very much, it's Basically just EndeavorOS with extra hassle imo (delayed updates leading to AUR packages breaking), but you can 100% do this if you like Manjaro.

[–] jahruhn@mastodon.online 1 points 7 months ago

@gh0stcassette I have no experience with Manjaro, but usually stick with Ubuntu/ Debian or the Red Hat family.

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