It might be a good idea to remove r/steamdeck_linux from the list. I restricted that subreddit a while ago, and this community serves as it's replacement.
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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I don't know, it seems you disabled new posts, but there might still be good information that is readable there?
yeah i suppose, fair enough
Great list, but remove Crankshaft. It's basically dead now, and pretty much everything it could do is now possible in Decky, including video capture.
I added a disclaimer. Might still be useful for historical purposes, or when the project becomes alive again, as open source project sometimes do.
Should at least change the link to the GitHub repo then, as the site is dead and the domain could be picked up by somebody malicious.
You're right. I changed it.
If anything, this highlighted for me how hard it still is to edit large posts on Lemmy! Also, I went to another instance multiple times without realizing it after I clicked "Show context", which made it impossible for me to edit the post, because I was on a different instance!
This will take some getting used to and/or fixing!
Can moderators can sticky/pin posts here? If so this probably should be stickied/pinned/whatever the fuck you call it here.
I think it's called featuring. Yep, it has been featured.
Hey, thanks for linking to my podcast! 😄
~~Which one? I used to listen to a couple of them in the car, but not so much lately!~~ I figure it's probably The Steam Deck Podcast.
Yeah, that's the one! 😄
Nice! Keep that one going. I like the vibe of your podcast. Unfortunately, most of the other podcasts seem to have stopped putting out new content.
For those that want a better UI in Desktop Mode when docked playing from the couch, there is Plasma Bigscreen
There is a better QT6 version available if you build from source and I think in the AUR under
plasma-bigscreen-git
It's rough around the edges still, but hopefully with the Steam Machine more people will take interest in it who are looking to use it as a media centre instead of a Nvidia Shield Android/Google TV
I would like to suggest a perhaps oddball steam deck utility here.
logseq!
logseq is a note taking, thinking and task tracking tool, it is open source and free and works superb on the steam deck when launched in gaming mode.
logseq has functionality for
-arbitrarily deep trees of headings
-easy linking between pages (think wikipedia)
-calendar and in depth task tracking and scheduling
-whiteboard simple visualization utility that can link back to notes
-ability to reference specific parts of a pdf or image from notes and link directly to it
You can then use the equally superb and also free and open source file sync software Syncthing to sync your logseq notes between different devices (say your phone and steam deck).
Using these two utilities you can easily build a cloud based task tracking and note taking system that has ZERO percent lock-in to any corporate silo or any subscriptions, you have complete agency over the whole thing and its pretty damn slick too!
Logseq notes are stored as plain text markdown which adds an extra layer of comfort in knowing if you take a bunch of notes on your games even if ALL development of logseq somehow went belly up those notes are stored in plain text markdown... so you arent going to lose them/have to rewrite them by hand.
(your notes being stored in plain text also means that even a comical amount of notes takes up only kbs of disk space)
As much as I love Decky, I've now installed it and lightly used non-root extensions via Decky twice - both instances resulted in such a heavily unstable steam client that a steamOS reinstall ended up being necessary 😢 most notably, the keyboard started failing to appear, the desktop client consistently crashed to decky's error screen 😕
Fun for a while - but be prepared to reinstall your steamOS if you use stuff that dicks with steam's environment!
Deck Drive Manager appears to be defunct. Is there an active alternate?
Why have you not listed any Lemmy or Piefed links? Only see reddits
Because there are more established tools whose devs/communities use Reddit compared to the Fediverse, maybe..?
Yeah, but we're on Lemmy
If good Lemmy references don't exist then it's hard to link to them
I'm not talking of the references, I'm talking of the "List of Steam Deck-related subreddits and Lemmy communities" which was obviously just copypaste from Reddit and contains no Lemmy communities in it