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Steam Deck

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A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.

Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.

As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title

The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.

Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.

These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.

Rules:

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I used to use Apollo daily. I'm so glad someone suggested that I set up this sublemmy as a backup. Loving lemmy and this community so far.

I restricted the subreddit to allow any guides etc to be available again, but such that no new content can be posted. If Reddit really goes back on their changes, I might public it again, but tbh that's unlikely.

I have been blown away by the amount of people that have already jumped ship, and joined this little community. Honestly had almost forgotten I had set this up. Glad to see you all here!

Edit: just to be clear, I was the mod of r/steamdeck_linux, not the larger r/steamdeck. It was a smaller, but more linux focused, subreddit.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Just got banned from r/SteamDeck for a single non-spammy comment linking here in a thread specifically about the blackout. Good riddance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

A fair warning, it might be best to try and archive the content and transfer it over to Lemmg instead of leaving the subreddit itself up. Reddit seems to be forcibly reopening communities to stop the blackout, so if one doesn't act soon enough they might be forced out of their own subreddit and lose control.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Has reddit actually been reopening subs? Seems like r/videos would have been their first target, but that's still private.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is steamdeck_linux a different community from steamdeck?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, this was r/steamdeck_linux's sister community, I set this up around the time I made r/steamdeck_linux .

The subreddit was more for focusing on helping people use the Linux side of the Steam Deck.

This community, however, can be more broad, but it's the reason there's a Tux in the icon.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So how is Linux on Steam Deck? Can I do all my devvy things? VSCode, Go, NPM, Docker, etc

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can stretch SteamOS's capabilities out a little bit, but I wouldn't get too serious about it. The OS partition(s) don't have a lot of space, everything gets bounced back to start with every OS upgrade, and between SteamOS upgrades its Arch signing keys get pretty badly out of date.

I dunno how long it takes for the Deck's particular drivers to upstream to "real distros". Arch may already be there, Debian is probably not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah I guess at a certain point (carrying keyboard mouse around with the Deck), you're better off just using a laptop

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

@nii236 @rotopenguin

I don’t think so! I have an iclever portable keyboard that fits in my pocket even. Very portable companion to a device who’s purpose it to be “pocket” (more like small sling-bag) sized.

Link to the keyboard I use if curious: https://a.co/d/66lmyTl

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nice! I can dev on the toilet now

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm a filthy Australian so I still can't buy it in stores here... :(

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is one of the few communities I use lemmy for so far, the others are dying and I don't have time yet to post more on my own

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I want to point out that Lemmy is actually super active right now, but unfortunately there is a bug in 0.17.4 that stops front pages from updating shortly after the server is restarted, thus resulting in "hot" showing very old posts for example.

I have fixed this issue on https://lemm.ee already, you can check our front page to see fresh posts. The fix will soon land in the main Lemmy codebase as well so other instances can take advantage, you can track the issue here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3076

I have also advised other instance admins that regularly restarting their Lemmy server will work as a band-aid workaround until the proper fix is released, so some admins have already implemented this in order to get their post rankings working again (but unfortunately for you, it seems sopuli.xyz has not done this workaround yet).

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah, I was wondering why newer posts weren't showing up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It is pretty unfortunate because that's a rather serious bug, it gives the impression that Lemmy is less active than it actually is which is not great for newer users unaware of the bug.

edit: I'm not sure if it applies to "active" or just "hot", still not great though.

edit 2: Apparently it does apply to "active" as well, interesting.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Let's hope it's patched shortly.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Hey man, I appreciate the information - was wondering why the sorting was borked lately. I’ll keep an eye out for the update and occasionally restart my instance

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

I KNEW IT!

Felt super weird seeing posts from over a day old, it's like they haven't changed.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It seems i chose my server... wisely

Edit: how can i donate to lemm.ee, i guess i should throw in my buck o' five.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Much appreciated! There are two options: either GitHub sponsorships or Ko-Fi.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

I haven't heard anyone call them sublemmys before. I think I like it!

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