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Steam Deck

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[–] dangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bazzite is very nice for gaming only. If you want to do any dev-related things, like installing Wireshark or programming an ESP32, anything that needs to access outside of the sandbox/container, you will need to learn how to navigate through sandbox/container hell, exposing ports from each other, and installing things directly to rpm-ostree, etc. It gets ugly really fast.

[–] bobby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It gets ugly really fast.

It's super easy, barely an inconvenience. Just use Distrobox: https://docs.bazzite.gg/Installing_and_Managing_Software/Distrobox/

[–] dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago

Okay Ryan George

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Good?

A gaming device should not be an... eierlegende Wollmilchsau. It should play games with minimal bullshit. The possibility of being a general computer does not necessarily demand the ease of being a general computer. So long as you're the one deciding when and how it acts like a fixed-function gizmo, great.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is it? I'm reminded of Betteridge's law of headlines

I use it on my HTPC. It's pretty nice, but there are definitely some bugs and quirks. It's basically the handheld steam version, but with some better support. Agree that "Game-Changer" is clickbait.