Can anyone recommend a distro (and desktop environment?) that's going to be almost the same as desktop mode on the Steam deck? I'm getting more comfortable in that than I expected to be in any Linux, and to my surprise and delight I haven't had to delve into the command line at all yet.

[–] offspec@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

The steam deck uses KDE Plasma 5 as its desktop environment, so anything that uses that should feel very similar. I recommend bazzite if familiarity is something that would appeal to you.

[–] Mogofwin@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

+1 for Bazzite. It has just enough guard rails to keep you from (easily) making your system unusable while still providing more freedom than windows. Install is cake. Literally clear a drive or partition for your OS and storage, download it, and you're off to the races. just make sure to always check your build against protondb For games to see if there are any special run commands to put into steam, and you will be golden.

[–] offspec@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah I can't say I've used it myself but it seems pretty straightforward and very in line with SteamOS philosophies.

[–] Mogofwin@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Very much so. Even for non-gaming, most stuff works out of the box from the package manager, everything else you can get working with a distrobox. Ended up getting blender to work better on Bazzite with AMD GPU rendering than I could on Windows lol

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