Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
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:
[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Controller] - Steam Controller related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[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.
If your post is only relevant to one hardware device (Deck/Machine/Frame/etc) please specify which one as part of the title or by using a device flair.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.
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Absolutely silent. My desktop at home makes more noise.
There are a few small quirks to having a immutable distro and only using flatpak. Your home is preserved though, so no issues there.
Most people probably wont even notice.
BUT: if you do find something that is not in flatpak, or doesn't play nice, it is really easy to use KDE Kontainer and add a distro of your choice in a container. Anything you put here is never touched by SteamOS updates, interacts fully with your own user, and icons can simply be added to the menu to launch without having to touch or manually launch the container again. There are several guides and it is fairly painless.
Again, you may never need to. I just am adding that info here if anyone finds it useful.