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Why install other Linux ISOs on Steam Deck?
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A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.
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One of the beautiful things about Linux is it's versatility. Many people want to use their hardware for things other than gaming. For instance, I saw a Steam Deck at Disneyland being used to operate "autonomous" robots in Star Wars Land.
For me, I have been doing the vast majority of my gaming on my Steam Deck ever since I got it, however, recently, I was wanting to do some programming work while I was out and about, and was running into a lot of road blocks trying to do it on my Steam Deck. They can be overcome, but I found myself thinking about how much easier it would be to do my work on it, if it had a different distribution installed.
The Steam Deck is a consumer appliance, and as such has reasonable safeguards in place to protect users from themselves. Some users want to go beyond what's available out of the box, and I imagine that freedom is what motivates most people to put other operating systems on their device.
I actually use my Steam Deck for programming, with the vast majority of my time spent in desktop mode. The updates are a pain to deal with, but I've got an Ansible playbook that can get me back to normal fairly easily.
I think mkbhd did a video showing that off recently if anyone is curious
Thanks for letting me know! I really wanted to look at the UI when I realized what I was looking at, at the park, but I didn't want to bother the employee. I appreciate that I got to see it in that video now