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Bazzite is the next best thing to SteamOS [for other handhelds] while we wait on Valve
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2024
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I'm just happy that all the sources are made available by Valve to make this possible. Even though I wish they would upstream them much quicker. But at least it has enabled me to run a normal Linux distribution on my Deck and enhance it as I saw fit.
What are you running?
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
Hardest part was getting full disk encryption working with an on-screen keyboard to enter a passphrase at boot. I used unl0kr for that which wasn't (probably still isn't) in the OpenSUSE packages.
Missing built-in FDE is one of my main gripes with SteamOS. It's why I don't really do anything besides gaming on the Deck. It's a portable device that could easily be stolen or lost, so this seems like a major oversight.
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.