Daily driving the Steam Deck as a replacement computer.

[thepizzaisdying]

I'm supposed to be able to order my deck in October or later. But, has anybody who currently has a deck attempting to daily drive it? I plan to do this as a fun little challenge for a week once I get mine. For anyone who has done this, how was the experience? What was the biggest hurdle/challenge to overcome?

[maxRunner]

Homebrew can close the gap on a lot of the missing packages without having to disable readonly or do weird things with the base install.

[sev]

引用自 Veica：

there are app repos that are excluded from this version of Linux

Discover/Flatpak repos are user configurable and save between system upgrades. Pacman repos are easily re-enabled.

引用自 Veica：

and certain directories are read-only. For casual use it's not really a problem, but using pacman to install/update doesn't work well if at all. Additionally, anything installed through pacman in the terminal (ie. sudo pacman -S neofetch) gets nuked with system updates.

I have my common customizations in a script that I run after every upgrade, has gone pretty smoothly thus far; the most time consuming part was getting xboxdrv to compile and load automatically (and the way I did it is veeery hacky) since I didn't want to bother figuring out how to build in native compatibility for my controller. Also, making your own flatpaks/appimages is not particularly hard, so if you really do want a piece of software that isn't already available as one you can easily package it. Alternatively you could compile it in your home directory and not link against shared libraries.

引用自 Veica：

- AFAIK not setting the console to offline mode before leaving the house means you can't play games. Every time I've forgotten to do so, I get infinite loading screens when trying to start games. Kind of annoying.

This was fixed in the latest beta or maybe a few betas ago. Steam will not attempt to reconnect if you are offline.