what are y'all's thoughts on steam deck btw
I like how versatile the touchpad is

@bonkmaykr It works pretty good if you keep it in "console mode." Once you switch it into desktop mode and try to do things, though, you start to run into some pretty rough edges. For example: everything besides the touch screen stops working if Steam isn't running, package keys are super out-of-date or non-existent out of the box, no nfs support out of the box, installing and mounting an nfs directory causes standby mode to stop functioning, and WPA3 works but you have to configure it in desktop mode as the Steam UI doesn't let you enter the password for it.

Physically, it's also pretty good. I find it sits too low naturally in my hands (my thumbs hang off the top of the device), but it isn't uncomfortable to shift my grip. The touchpads are nice, but I find most games never use them by default. Most of the time they're setup to use the analog stick and, if more precision is required, gyro with the touchpad being ignored or set as a mirror for the stick. For mouse heavy games, I could see it being useful if you didn't want to use the touch screen. I use the touchpads mostly desktop mode to hit play on VLC.

@Coyote yeah I did run into a fair share of issues, my biggest simply being the controller configuration being reset to default whenever steam is running. There's some kind of background service that handles the controller with right trigger and touchpad as a fake mouse, but it's not nearly as useful as the custom configurations.

Apparently Valve disabled the keyring in pacman? I went into pacman.conf and all of the Valve repositories had signing disabled and trying to update from the AUR or default repos just failed every time because the keyring was read only. I'm not sure why they did that.

Otherwise it's been mostly smooth sailing. The minor annoyances are things I can deal with I guess

@bonkmaykr The Deck uses the same infrastructure as the Steam controller, so you should be able to rebind it when using the desktop. It's buried pretty deep as you need to open Steam on the desktop, go to settings, and click "Desktop Configuration" under the controller tab to change stuff. You might be able to mirror your config on Steam so the problem isn't noticeable. I've configured mine to work mostly tolerably, but I still ended up installing another on-screen-keyboard as Valve's one is really bad.

I think I had to run "pacman-key --populate" and "pacman-key --refresh-keys" to be able to update and install packages; you also need to run "sudo steamos-readonly disable" to get rid of the read-only errors. Valve's website, https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/671A-4453-E8D2-323C, also said that they might nuke everything that isn't a Flatpak in an update, though you might be safe if you configure pacman to work entirely out of your home directory; I haven't tried myself.

My only real grip is the nfs standby issue which means I've got to run mount anytime I want to access my NAS, and I have to restart my Deck after I'm done with it.

@Coyote Yeah I already got the controller part down, the issue is just that it doesn't keep the custom bindings when Steam isn't left open

I did try repopulating the keyring and disabling steamos-readonly mode (whatever that is) but it didn't work, so I resorted to turning off package signing entirely. I've been using flatpak for mostly everything so far wherever possible

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