I started “The Odin Project” in the deck, because the course prompted me to either mess with WSL2 on windows or switch to linux, so the SteamDeck it is :)

I also set up a secondary setup for my girlfriend with it, even tho my initial intention was to use it handheld most of the times, but it has worked out beautifuly, even with dual monitors!

And I use it as a SmartTV tool, I take it from my desk and dock it on the living room

My comments from someone who doesn’t know much about programming yet:

• Make the “get in touch” button functional
• The “Language” category could be named “Experience working with:” Or something more professional
• Search for better logos for the programming languages you know, and make them smaller
• Many elements have contrast issues, black text on very dark blue backgrounds, etc. That’s very very important
• Cursor doesn’t change on top of links

Idea:

• The landing page could contain some pictures of your best websites or more visually pleasing projects. And if this is a personal website “watchlist” and such are okay, but if it’s meant to be a portfolio for companies… Keep it professional

Overall, it was still okay, but needs some polishing

I just lend my steam deck to my girlfriend and she games around, your aproach is 100% valid

Valve released a console, and you can use it as you wish, if you want help with installing wayland let me know, or you can search for any other tutorial online

Have fun gaming :)

Waydroid in this tutorial is running in a “cage” so it can run under X11 which is an older system used by the current KDE version in the steamdeck.

To install it on bazzite (under Wayland instead of X11), it’s even simpler.

   rpm-ostree install waydroid

and

   sudo dnf install waydroid

So if you are ussing bazzite, follow first option here

For me it usually comes to:

• Android TV to dock the steam deck on my living room and use it as such
• Some very specific games, like PvZ2, or roblox
• Specific apps like “Stremio”, have a better touch screen experience under Waydroid compared to their flatpack version

You are right

But in this case, the “steamos-waydroid-installer” creates a cage ( A wayland compositor running X11), and uses XWayland to render that. That creates a nested Wayland environment, with some overhead, but it works :))

Edit: The good thing is, overhead isnt nearly even a problem, since you’re probably not getting the steamdeck to suffer under android emulation. Still, I believe and hope next big SteamOS update will switch to Wayland, leaving X11 behind

I wish I hadn’t sold mine, jailbreaking seems fun.

I remember being younger and seeing these crazy “jailbroken ps4” videos, specially gta V vids, fun stuff.

Anyway, thanks!

NVK is great overall, for gaming eeeeh, no, sadly. I think it’s getting improvements for vulkan gaming

But 555 beta is already much better than 550 on wayland

Stremio uploads/seeds just when you’re watching the movie, and usually with a very small cache. On a 20gb movie maybe you seed 200-300mb, which isn’t anything substantial

There was no sync at all in the last drivers, now we have good sync, it should be nice smooth experience once everything updates

You now have a chance to follow some of their independent blogs, support them that way, fuck all this big companies, they are laying of everyone for ai

There is if you intend to keep torrents alive.

Reading 100% feels better, seeing tiny icons/logos without it being a pixelated mess is also good, and video looks much crisper, same goes for videogames, and the performance hit from 1080 to 1440 isn’t bad at all.

Is your statement true? Probably

But if we set our standards to “enough”, there wouldn’t be any progress

Was the switch enough for couch gamers? Sure. Did valve want to progress further? They did.

Some will use the built in note editor, some the built in music player, some the built in video player, and now some will use matrix

Mint isn’t overly bloated, or even “bloated”, these apps are useful for a decent part of the demographic, and having them preinstalled lowers the friction a new user feels when installing a new OS

Gnome isn’t bad, at all. The team has caused controversy and made mistakes, but gnome’s experience is great.

Talking about ubuntu, snaps suck, and it is more “bloated” than what you’d expect, but still, ubuntu isn’t half bad. Is mint better for what the ubuntu audience wants? Yes. Does ubuntu still work well? Yes

And ubuntu server rocks

Ubuntu 100%, if you count how many distros are ubuntu based (and collaterally debian based), but I believe it is the most used one even if you only count official ubuntu releases

Maybe arch would be quite high, if you count the steamdeck as desktop (maybe), and the big increase on arch users in the past couple of years (wen’t from being rare to 1 in 3 users saying “I use arch btw”)

Fedora 40 with kde plasma 6 dropped a day or two ago, and they did remove x11, you have to get it from the repo in case you want it, otherwise, it only comes and is planned for wayland, which I believe is great, for once it does seem like the year of wayland

Your work app may be electron based (which is a bit too common nowadays), and until they update to electron 29, wayland won’t probably work.

(or until they add xwayland video bridge, but the former option is better than the latter.

I don’t know how you messed that up, usually the switch is as easy as it can be, and the issue comes when using it, for its lack of explicit sync, causing apps to flicker, and frame pacing in games to be plain bad

This is being fixed in the next two months thankfully

Edit: Taking about Nvidia wayland support here, AMD and Intel are great