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Ist there any alternative os beside steam OS and bazzite? Something based on opensuse or Debian?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Doesn't SteamOS satisfy that requirement? What do you dislike about it?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Just only because KDE, I want GNOME

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Bazzite offers a Gnome image, on the download page select Steam Deck then on the second drop down it'll ask what desktop environment you want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Yes bazzite offers GNOME but I prefer something not fedora

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

You're going to have to go with whatever you prefer and then manually configure it for the Deck, pretty much every popular gaming distro with an image for the Deck is either based on Arch or Fedora.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Thanks! I will give Cachy a try, seems it has everything i need

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Heads up CachyOS is based on Arch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm fine with Arch based distros

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

In that case you should really try OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I used the Gnome based live image to install (although I wanted KDE) because it's the only one with a usable on screen keyboard.

You should instantly have a usable system. Then you just need to install Steam.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

That's a fair desire for a touchscreen device. Don't know why people are downvoting so much. You want GNOME on something that's not Bazzite. To be honest, I'm looking for a good non SteamOS and non Bazzite distro pre-configured for Deck too (when I get one), for my own reasons. So you're not the only one.