• Zeth0s@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It is actually pretty fine for steam deck. It’s has to be a console like experience.

    For a desktop os? not so much

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      1 year ago

      Well on my SteamDeck I wanted to install Portmaster for Adblocking and network filtering, and also wine because running Windows apps with a click on the Desktop > Opening Bottles and setting each one up before, Also wanted to switch KDE for Gnome because KDE sucks on a touch screen big time where Gnome is much more touch friendly. Also wanted to install neofetch as well but just ran it as a script to get what I needed. Yes I can disable the read-only and do it all anyway, it’s not really locked down but because SteamOS doesn’t respect or honor changes they’ll just undo it whenever I update.

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        1 year ago

        To be fair you are trying to use steam deck for what it was not meant to do. You are an edge case. The os was built for steam + flatpack, for games.

        It works for that. To use it as desktop os… See my comment above :D

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            1 year ago

            Well running Portmaster or Gnome in a container kind of defeats the purpose of those things since they need to run on the System to be effective.

            What would be really neat is if there was a Way to get the SteamOS features like the menu and On screen Keyboard in Regular Arch Linux.

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            1 year ago

            I mean that steam os is built for casual users that want to play. For using it as a desktop os, it’s not so great, exactly because it’s immutable and it is configured weirdly

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              1 year ago

              Interesting choice of DE for casual users on a touch screen device, I kind of get that they’re not going to be using Desktop mode so much but honestly they should’ve used something like Gnome that isn’t going to be clunky and frustrating on a touch screen without a Mouse and Keyboard.

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                1 year ago

                My guess is that kde is more “familiar” for gamers coming from windows… It looks more like windows than gnome

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                  1 year ago

                  Fair enough, though Gnome does resemble mobile interfaces like the ones in Android (at least I think so, I’m going to get grilled for this aren’t I?), which would make more sense in what essentially is a mobile device that should have mobile touch based navigation due to lack of physical keyboard and a proper mouse.

                  KDE may look like windows but it also functions way worse than Windows on a touch screen device, at least most windows devices have a keyboard and mouse but the SteamDeck requires you to use an external one, which may or may not be available.