Tons of Lego games are also available on the Deck. Minecraft is always great. GCompris is a great collection for children.

And of course you can always emulate Switch games.

Can you see with top or ps what program is eating up all the RAM? Probably some bug you may report.

Try to automate updates as much as possible so that new security bugs get fixed quickly.

I started Baldur’s Gate 3 again. With an evil Wyll run. I try to make Wyll go the evil route by doing the most “heroic” stuff.

Yeah, and they specifically block Wine from running Roblox.

I think this depends on too many factors to give general advice. Android is very different from other Linux distros because they share almost none of the supporting libraries and software. Even the Linux Kernel they share is heavily modified.

The are many apps that are made for both Linux and Android but I think they have to be built with portability in mind for that to work. Godot for instance can make Linux, Windows, Mac OS and Android packages.

On the other side there are Sober for Roblox and the Minecraft Bedrock Launcher that use the respective Android packages and make them run on Linux. But they are specialised for Roblox and Minecraft and don’t work on all Android packages.

I often exit a shell with ctrl+d. And I often see if a shell is still connected by pressing enter. They are definitely not equivalent.

I’ve put OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on mine. And although I have gaming mode available I prefer to run it on Plasma Wayland for the multitasking. The background just pulls in astronomy pictures. I rarely look at it anyways.

Keen eyes will see the Baldur’s Gate 3 icon in the taskbar.

I did that. Turns out my error had nothing to do with space. I was just booting into a read-only snapshot by default. Rolling back to a later snapshot fixed everything.

If I understand subvolumes correctly they share their space when they reside on the same device. I only have two partitions. One for /boot/efi and one for the rest.

Small tangent, I didn’t have the energy to read your whole post, so you might have addressed that. But often it’s cheaper to go with an established multi purpose device instead of building something new.

I used to build and sell Raspberry Pi gaming handhelds that were as cheap as possible and literally just held together by some string. My purpose was to get enough money through the sales to ge able to build one for myself. Sure, the building process was fun. But when I crunched the numbers just buying a cheap smartphone and controller was much cheaper and more performant and versatile than the self-built solution.

Just buying a cheap phone or tablet is often the cheaper solution.

Heck, even Valve just bought off the shelve tablet displays and turned the image in software for the Steam Deck.

You could add linking to the same post, eg crossposting, to the criteria.

The urge to switch my server to piefed grows bigger every day.

You mean as a file server? I’d probably use a minimal Debian installation. But almost any distro should have a minimal flavour.

That’s what Luxtorpeda is for. It automatically selects an appropriate source port for your game.

Booting from any rescue Linux system and removing or editing /etc/shadow in the overlay partition would work as well. No need for a factory reset.

Did you know that most big anti cheat systems actually do run in Wine when allowed to by the developer?

Has anyone even seen Threads content anywhere? I’m not blocking Threads on my instance either. Neither am I blocking Nazi instances. Not because I endorse either of those things. Just because I have never even seen them. Easy enough to rectify if they ever pop up.

If it is generally possible with a browser it is possible on the Steam Deck.

Huh? It has been offering me to do that for quite a while now. I think I even used it once or twice.

The Deck is weird in terms of Wayland/X11 usage. Gamemode runs on Wayland, but the Steam client runs through XWayland and for the games another XWayland session is started.