A little bit janky if I’m being honest, but I still prefer it. Like, I use four different types of on screen keyboard (Steam’s for everyday stuff, Onboard when I need special keys, Maliit on the lock screen, unl0kr (which cannot handle the Deck’s screen rotation yet) to decrypt the drive on boot).
For the installation I had to use the Gnome live image because it was the only one with a usable keyboard. So I guess that makes five different keyboards I used.
I had to do a lot of customisation to get it to a state I’m comfortable with. But on the plus side I don’t have to fight against the system to do it. My main motivation was to get encryption working.
Cool, if you have a writeup about it, I’d love to give it a read. So the challenges you had, solutions you came up with, and ergonomics vs original SteamOS.
I don’t have any complaints right now, but I like openSUSE and sometimes like to tinker. As long as the controller works well through Steam, I’d probably keep it.
I’ve recently made two posts about the keyboards and for the encryption there’s a bug report about unl0kr in Bazzite where I added a comment. Unfortunately I don’t have the energy for a more detailed writeup, but it should be enough to get you started.
The controller works out of the box as a mouse. You just need to have an on screen keyboard installed (or a real one attached via USB) to handle everything else. If you like Gnome that should actually work better out of the box than KDE.
How is it? I use openSUSE on everything (desktop, laptop, NAS, VPS), except my Steam Deck.
A little bit janky if I’m being honest, but I still prefer it. Like, I use four different types of on screen keyboard (Steam’s for everyday stuff, Onboard when I need special keys, Maliit on the lock screen, unl0kr (which cannot handle the Deck’s screen rotation yet) to decrypt the drive on boot).
For the installation I had to use the Gnome live image because it was the only one with a usable keyboard. So I guess that makes five different keyboards I used.
I had to do a lot of customisation to get it to a state I’m comfortable with. But on the plus side I don’t have to fight against the system to do it. My main motivation was to get encryption working.
Cool, if you have a writeup about it, I’d love to give it a read. So the challenges you had, solutions you came up with, and ergonomics vs original SteamOS.
I don’t have any complaints right now, but I like openSUSE and sometimes like to tinker. As long as the controller works well through Steam, I’d probably keep it.
I’ve recently made two posts about the keyboards and for the encryption there’s a bug report about unl0kr in Bazzite where I added a comment. Unfortunately I don’t have the energy for a more detailed writeup, but it should be enough to get you started.
The controller works out of the box as a mouse. You just need to have an on screen keyboard installed (or a real one attached via USB) to handle everything else. If you like Gnome that should actually work better out of the box than KDE.
I don’t mind either, though I have a slight preference for KDE. I may just install both.
I’ll look through those posts and may just make one myself. :)