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Valve gives kudos to “amazing” Steam Deck competitors (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You shouldn't need to use any of the Arch stuff on Steam OS. It had a read-only root, so you'd need to disable that to use any pacman commands anyway.

You should be able to get everything you need through the Discover store, since most applications are available through flatpak. That should be a similar experience as any other app store, provided you know what you're looking for.

The main issues imo have nothing to do with Linux, but the form factor:

  • screen to small to use for reading text
  • no keyboard, so that needs to be brought separately
  • doesn't stand up on its own, so you'd need a stand
  • awkward shape for fitting into a bag with other stuff

If you're always plugging it into the dock, I'm not sure why you wouldn't just get a desktop or something and keep your data on a USB drive or in the cloud. If you use it even occasionally as a mobile computing device on battery, just get a laptop, that's what they're designed for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

You are absolutely right. My problem was trying to install a hex map-making tool for D&D, which only came as a .deb file. So I needed a tool to install that, and the tools I found needed pacman to install them.

In regards to the decision to purchase a steam deck as opposed to a desktop or laptop, I most likely just wanted an excuse to buy a new toy, justified as a way to replace my aging laptop. I'd love to say it was a younger me making that mistake. No, it was me one year ago. I'm not really a different person now, and would likely do the same thing given the chance.