• https://github.com/airscripts/awesome-steam-deck#readme
• https://dosdeck.com/ - play DOS games on the browser

• Initial setup hangs at '1 second remaining': poweroff the steam deck, and have it connect to a 2.5Ghz network. I did run the wlan chip of my Thinkpad with Fedora38 in Access Point mode for this.
• Desktop mode: power off menu, choose desktop mode
• run ssh:
  • enter desktop mode, start kconsole
  • 'passwd' to set a password for the user
  • 'sudo systemctl enable --now sshd'
  • 'ip a s' to see the current IP addressses
  • from remote system: ssh deck@<ip>
• invoke virtual keyboard on the screen: <steam-button>+<X-button>
• Install flatpak: 'pacman -S flatpak'
• RetroDeck emulation platform
  • https://retrodeck.net/
  • https://flathub.org/apps/net.retrodeck.retrodeck – install details
  • run it: 'flatpak run net.retrodeck.retrodeck'
  • Amiga disk file format: https://retrox.tv/multi-disk-support/
• mosh
  • 'pacman -S mosh'
  • locale errors: 'pacman -Syu glibc; locale-gen'
• Disable touchscreen without a HDMI screen configured
  • I was curious on how this changes power consumption
  • configuration: install arandr with 'pacman -S arandr', go to desktop mode, run 'arandr' from a terminal, disable internal screen
  • ⇒ disabling touchscreen vs. dimmed down touchscreen brings down consumption by 0.7W

# pacman setup
steamos-readonly disable
pacman-key --populate archlinux

# install mosh
pacman -S mosh

# Upgrade pacman packages:
pacman -Syu

# search for packages with ^apr
pacman -Ss '^apr'

# which package has file limits.h?
pacman -Fy limits.h

You can nicely install Fedora 39. Ventoy did not start, but writing a Fedora server image to a usb-stick, putting that into the steck deck dock, then keeping “volume down” pressed and pressing “power” allows to boot from the usb-stick. Also booting from usb3-connected NVMe enclosure works, but that is later in Anaconda not available for Fedora installation. Installing onto microsd card works.

I run Plasma. nebula virtual vpn. RHEL9 virtualized via KVM. Remote desktop via VNC works nicely: just execute 'krfb'. Plasma can also nicely do scaling, do you can stuff quite some things onto the 1280x screen.