If xfce doesnt count as light I don’t know what would

OP asked for desktop env, and tiling window managers are… Well only window managers and not desktop environments…

Yeah, network and image management is what I miss most

Got one aswell, i have used their free 5 node business option but since switched over to dockge and I’m happy

Ofc portainer does so much more but I just don’t need it anymore

It’s always the same, some says something factually wrong, gets corrected, the votes weigh in and then the argument of “you just try to dunk on my for fake internet points” come up… sigh

Alright, let’s go through it point by point.

1. You didn’t list a single reason why you CAN’T hook up any PC with Linux and create a “console”. You just listed a bunch of feature that are available to every single linux distro and a bunch of feature that are in fact exclusive to the steamdeck, but are NOT critical to achieve a console-like gaming system. 1.1 “Unique first-party processor” - Yup, thats steamdeck exclusive afaik, but it’s only special feature is the balance between TDP and performance. None of the firmware / software features rely on that specific CPU. I can “proof” that because as i said, my Minisforum can go into the exact same sleep / resume state as the steamdeck. But “oh here we go again!” you might say, i just listed the same one specific machine again. Yup i did, but my other machines do exactly the same. My NVidia powered PC and my personal gaming rig. Yes they all have AMD CPUs, i have no idea how good Intel goes with all this but honestly i don’t care. I doesn’t disprove my point in any way.

2. Touch pads - Yup exclusive to the steamdeck. Not at all critical to achieve a console-like gaming system.

3. Steam Input configuration - Not exclusive to the deck, available for every single machine that can install steam.

4. Gamescope - Not exclusive to the deck, available for every single distro that runs wayland.

5. Sleep / resume function - Not exclusive to the steamdeck. All my PCs achieve the same result as the deck.

6. Direct launch into Big Picture Mode - Lmao also not exclusive (how do you even think that?! xD).

7. Hardware thats guaranteed to work with Linux / Steam. Nowadays, it’s really fucking hardware to find mainstream gaming hardware that is NOT supported by Linux. Heck even NVidia works reliable with wayland with the newest 555 driver. How do i now? Oh because of my frigging 3070 that’s running in one of my gaming systems.

So, i just elaborated. Disprove me with real forum entries / wiki entries that describe that something that i wrote is not correct. Go ahead, i wait… but i won’t answer anymore.

interesting… can you please go ahead and tell this to my Minisforum PC i hooked up to my TV and let it boot into big picture and resume from sleep etc. just like its a console?

Because from what you told me it shouldnt work… but it does… and somebody needs to tell it and i can’t because i didnt spend so much time with it… you know i just installed bazzite and called it a day… so i don’t really have a big connection to it :/

But in all seriousness, you’re completly wrong here. The chip used in the Steamdeck sure is special and does a lot of heavy lifting. But everything that makes out the steamdeck is definetely not exclusive to its hardware. You 100% can just hook up any PC, be it some minisforum mini pc, a laptop or a off the shelf gaming PC, install literally any linux on it and within a few hours of installing and configuring stuff - you can make your own “steamdeck”. It works. Reliable, hasslefree.

I assume you just don’t have any real-world experience with setting something like this up. Go ahead and try it, it’s not hard and you will see that you just don’t need a steamdeck.

It’s absolutely nothing special to produce a console-like gaming experience with linux these days.

You really shouldn’t believe to be correct if everyone else has the real-world experience you try to tell others can’t exist

sure, but i am happy with what Ondsel preconfigured for me me. And since it’s freecad in the core anyway

I started on FreeCAD but now went for Ondsel.

Their UX redesign is really nice and works much better for me

Elaborate

What about this isn’t correct?

Takes just over a minute… How hard can it be

i used Fedora with Gnome on Lenovo Yoga and regularly flipped the keyboard around and used it in Tablet mode.

It’s not average, it’s pretty good if you ask me. Never had any issues and it was absolutely usabale.

If you visit Germany one day, you’ll be enlightenend

Describes my typical retail experience, i wouldn’t call that weird at all :D

I used homebox but switched over to nocodb

Additionally, if Steam would start to morph into what is posted here, it would simply be integrated into Heroic and / or lutris just as Epic is right now. There would be no need to actually launch steam anymore but just use it as a background service to pipe your games into something else.

yup…

.hidden file became my best friend - and a little context menu script for dolphin to easily add a file / folder to that .hidden is a thing i use way too often tbh

And now show hidden files and you see the plethora of applications that dump everything in your homedir instead of .config

Highly illegal in germany

Optical Character Recognition

Making a program read a text in image form and make it computer-readable / searchable / selectable

You could optimize it though.

As said one comment above, check if it’s the same composition as before and don’t take a screenshot if it didn’t change. Make some rules to filter out video content so if you have a youtube video open it doesn’t take a screenshot every second just because the video is running.

Or you could actually integrate this with your window manager. Only take a screenshot if you move / resize / open / close a window. Make a small extension for browsers that tell it to make a screenshot if you scroll / close / open a page. Then you don’t have to make a screenshot and compare with the one before.

This wouldn’t be as thorough as just forcing screenshots all the time and you would probably not catch stuff like writing a text in libreoffice as you don’t change anything with the window. But it could be a resourceful way to do that.

And if for example no screenshot was taken for 1 minute because nothing called for that, you could just take one regardless. That way you have a minimum of one screenshot per minute or as often as window manager / browser calls for it.