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How do you manage your Steam Deck as a family device? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago by Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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Hi everyone!

I've been a Playstation gamer and a Linux user for years. I now have a Steam Deck to slowly move my gaming to the Linux side too.

For myself, it's pretty easy, but it's more complicated with my son.

He's 8 and I would want him to be able to just take the Deck, use his profile and play with it, wether as a handheld, hooked to the TV with a my Baseus Dock or hooked to the computer screen through USB-C.

So here are my questions:

-Sharing the Steam Library through the Steam Family is easy, but how do you manage this for the settings of the Deck on his profile? Basically, I'd want him to have the same settings as me so that I don't have to configure anything for him when he wants to play while I'm cooking or busy (controllers through bluetooth, UI scaling, game profiles, etc..). Ideally I would prefer not to have to do everything once again and just have synchonized profiles. Especially because I also have a 12 year daughter who might want to play too and all these things are time consuming. -How do you share your GOG library? Ideally without having to set up Heroic 3 times as we would be 3 users..I'm trying to buy 50% of my games on GOG, but I might just stick to Steam if the sharing part is complicated. Which would be a shame..

The thing is that every difficulty the kids face are just gonna make them want to just keep playing on the Playstation 5 and say "Dad leave us alone with your Linux devices", so I'd really want the experience to be as seamless as possible.

We used to have a Switch and I'm kind of trying to give them the same ease of use even if I know that it's clearly not the same device.

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[–] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don’t agree as that’s why you can switch profiles.

Also the Deck is cheap, but what’s the point of having 3 devices when only one person is really using it and the kids would just it once in a while.

We have one kitchen so we can have one Deck😅

[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My family and I often play multiplayer games that require each person to have a system to themselves. It's a PC after all.

We sometimes play split screen games on one of our decks plugged into the TV, but overall each of us has our own and will play separately on them whenever possible.

We can also then take them with us at our own discretion, and I don't have to worry about anyone else in my family shattering mine.