I reserved a Deck day one within a minute and I think I might be in the initial launch (still no expected ship date listed though the payment processed and I got the confirmation email within a couple minutes). Whenever I get it, I’m hyped.
I’m not a typical user. I do enjoy handheld games, but I also am an Arch Linux user (btw), I deploy servers, I write code, blah blah blah. My current personal computer is an old T430, and I plan to use my deck as a daily driver as a desktop at home, a media center on the couch, handheld in bed, and a tablet on the go. To meet those use cases I plan to do a custom Arch install.
Is anyone else planning on doing something similar?
Some things I’m starting to plan out are:
- Some sort of custom lockscreen that can use the deck controls to unlock or an onscreen keyboard.
- E-reader mode
- Audio mode
- Kodi for media center and plex
- RetroArch for retro games
- Steam (of course)
- Removal of telemetry and possibly iptable rules to block Steam telemetry if any
- Graphical interface to do basic maintenance tasks without a keyboard (like a script launcher window). This could probably be the app launcher in gnome with some custom desktop entries
What about this OS for the Deck? https://chimeraos.org/about
I was looking at that one and VaporOS. I think they will probably both work for many people. Being Arch based and setting it up as a custom Arch install will also be fun 🙂
It’s already arch based, why would you reinstall it. It would probably be easier to just add those programs to it
It’s “arch based”. How are the repos setup? What packages are pinned? What bloatware is added?
Sure I can write a script to migrate everything to how I want it, but at a point it becomes easier (and cleaner) to do a custom install script that will build it up how I want it.
I mean depends on what tweaks they did. Idk i feel like it would be a hassle installing it from scratch
