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For anyone wanting to take the deck to the next level and unlock more functionality I can warmly recommend https://bazzite.gg/

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I don’t know why but bazzite for me was super unstable compared to holo os for my deck

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Can you elaborate in which use case bazzite is better on deck than stock steamOS? Whats the difference in terms of battery life? What are the tradeoffs?

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Personally don’t have a deck… yet. I run Bazzite as my OS on my PC though. However, I read and see a lot of people running Bazzite on decks on forums and discord. This is also where i’d recommend going for answers such as you asked for. If I had to guess there isn’t much difference when it comes to battery life - they’re both running the same kernel. The reason you would want to switch, as shown on their website is to unlock the ability to run flatpak on your deck.

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I kinda wished you were able to back up your claims. The Steam deck can install flatpacks through discover just fine.

Bazzite doesn’t support the 64GB version of the deck. It’s the version I own.

I run a rebased kionite to bazzite on my desktop pc, so its not like I hate Bazzite, I love it. All in all not a very sensible recommendation, in my opinion the risk of bricking far outweigh the aesthetic appeal to run Wayland apps.

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Pron…

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I use it as a general purpose computer. I set up an encrypted home partition by more or less following this guide: https://github.com/hirak99/steam_deck_encryption. I have a bag that nicely fits the deck, charging cable, dock, and a 60% keyboard for travel.

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60% keyboard

Im j st im g n ng yo r typ ng loo s lik th s

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Same, I use it as my travel laptop. I like this keyboard + stand.

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I just picked up a 144hz USB-C 16" monitor with a magnetic cover like a tablet. Paired it with a mini tripod and designed/printed a magnetic bracket so the monitor just snaps on. Slides right into my tiny 13L pack (barely).

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Picture please!

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Happily, but… Of what exactly? Not sure if you just want to see layout, or the details of the 3d model, etc.

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Mine spends a lot of time docked to the television so I can torrent/stream things.

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I use a deck to control robots at a theme park.

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I saw someone doing this and geeked out so hard. Such a cool use of the Deck.

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