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Is steamdeck_linux a different community from steamdeck?

Yes, this was r/steamdeck_linux's sister community, I set this up around the time I made r/steamdeck_linux .

The subreddit was more for focusing on helping people use the Linux side of the Steam Deck.

This community, however, can be more broad, but it's the reason there's a Tux in the icon.

So how is Linux on Steam Deck? Can I do all my devvy things? VSCode, Go, NPM, Docker, etc

You can stretch SteamOS's capabilities out a little bit, but I wouldn't get too serious about it. The OS partition(s) don't have a lot of space, everything gets bounced back to start with every OS upgrade, and between SteamOS upgrades its Arch signing keys get pretty badly out of date.

I dunno how long it takes for the Deck's particular drivers to upstream to "real distros". Arch may already be there, Debian is probably not.

Yeah I guess at a certain point (carrying keyboard mouse around with the Deck), you're better off just using a laptop

@nii236 @rotopenguin

I don’t think so! I have an iclever portable keyboard that fits in my pocket even. Very portable companion to a device who’s purpose it to be “pocket” (more like small sling-bag) sized.

Link to the keyboard I use if curious: a.co/d/66lmyTl

Nice! I can dev on the toilet now

I'm a filthy Australian so I still can't buy it in stores here... :(