All of Lemmy is a Linux help community. Okay, not c/linuxsucks, but everything else.

This was going to be my answer!

Yep. I went though the process a second time which was far faster but required me to hold down the power button to get it to boot afterward. No other problems with it after that though.

I think your eagerness to be factual and helpful isn’t a bad quality, and to be clear: I am being serious about that.

Is there a category for people who understand my jokes?

Why are we treating tiny females as a separate category from normal-sized females?

Uh, excuse me, but Gabe buys submarines thankyouverymuch

Well you may be right and Valve may only be aiming to support some of the already-existing handhelds out there that are ARM based.

Valve does know how to play the long game on support, so time will tell.

I could see a budget Deck with an ARM processor, but I still doubt the flagship model wouldn’t be x86-64

So basically this is where I’ve landed on this after rooting, moding, etc. all of my electronics for the last 30 years: for devices where I want to customize everything, it’s going to be done with a Linux computer to begin with because there’s absolutely nothing standing in my way. For other things that I just need to work reliably and not become yet another chore, I buy some product. So I would buy a thermostat, but build my own NAS (with a 3D printed 7-bay case).

I’m beyond sick - as I think you might be too - of all the extra stuff I have to keep up with whenever I jailbreak/root/whatever a device just so I don’t fuck it up with some careless action or update. I just don’t have the same amount of free time and mental energy to dedicate to this stuff anymore. I wish I did though.

I can relate. I’m getting tired of having to do this kind of thing for all my devices just to make them work. I’m even probably going to switch to iPhone because at this point I just want my phone to work reliably, and my OnePlus 8T never has.

My advice is to go to the XDA forums and find your device there. You should be able to tell from replies and view counts of the threads which of the ROMs and mods are the most popular.

Did you check the Discover store?

Also, Steam Link is another easy option for remote control.

Edit: https://www.gamesinhand.com/post/use-your-phone-to-control-your-steam-deck

With systemd, you set the default target to something other than a desktop environment.

Inconceivable

I always recommend Pop_OS! for beginners. It’s IMHO a lot closer to what Ubuntu used to be, uses apt and/or flatpaks (and no snaps), has sane defaults, a good installer, a decent company behind it, nvidia drivers included and their upcoming Cosmic desktop environment looks sick.

Also, I feel like this is a better Fedora-based distro for beginners since it’s harder to break:

https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/silverblue/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_stick

He’s a Goder. Like a Witcher but for the heavens.

Ah, fair. If it were a Steam license, it would be trivial to switch to the native build. Damn Epic!