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SteamDeckPirates

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Welcome to SteamDeckPirates

Where we sail the seas with our SteamDeck!

This is where we discuss and talk anything about the SteamDeck, Linux Gaming, Hardware, Software, Emulation, etc.

But you know what we love most? Piracy!!!

Wiki:

This is where we have archive most of our resources and guides. Click here to go to the wiki. (no link yet, work in progress)

For any changes, suggestions or requests, contact us or make a post with "Wiki" on the title and we'll work on that.

Rules:

  1. Be nice.
  2. No extreme politics, and mostly no politics.
  3. Stay on topic or close, for example linux, hardware or OS discussions are encouraged.
  4. Try to link github/github, or other easily auditable sources when sharing programs.
  5. No crypto, blockchain, etc.
  6. No X/Twitter links.
  7. If needed, feel free to contact mods.
  8. If in doubt, read rule 1.

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An effort to revive this community (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/steamdeckpirates@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Hello deck-ers?!

I'm shaytan. After some time away from the internet, and now leaving behind reddit, I'm trying to revive this community as I very recently got a steamdeck, but I've been passionate about linux, linux gaming, and hardware for a while.

My plans for this place are to keep it aligned with piracy and steamdeck, but also take a lot more time into helping general support questions, and sharing resources and content related to the steamdeck and handheld gaming.

I'll try to prepare some posts for this place, and if possible have a good wiki soon!

Any help is welcome!

Roadmap
  • 1st -> ~~Mild overhaul of rules and look by the 2nd of February~~
  • 2nd -> ~~General opening post for a proper re-start, 5th of February~~
  • 3rd -> Some pre-prepared posts/small guides dedicated to new users starting the 6th at a consistency of 1 a week at minimum.
  • 4rd-> A proper wiki for all things related to the steamdeck by the end of February at worst
  • 5th -> Some more hardware specific and more technical guides by march

As a disclaimer, I want this place to remain piracy oriented, but also more valuable for everyday use, so ideally this place should have more general deck content between piracy posts

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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'd love a sticky post explaining the best way to get games

[–] shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A list of sources will be on the wiki, but since that will take some time, I'll try to make a shorter post about this topic soon!

I suppose adding a way or two of installing games to run under proton will also be useful!

[–] forrgott@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

It might be worthwhile to pay attention to how one can find a source. Don't get me wrong, I'm looking forward to your recommendations! But I'm thinking just in case that list faces some kind of censorship, to there's still knowledge regarding how to go about looking for a source that might be somewhat harder to silence.

Anyway, had no idea this community existed! This will be my first subscription, I think; up until know I've been content to just scroll the All feed. 😅

Oh! As a newbie, Wine had an unexpectedly steep learning curve at times. So I would definitely recommend guides or explanations of stuff like "what is a Wine prefix, and when might I want to customize that instead of settling for the default?"

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hadn't really thought about piracy for SteamDeck as I don't own one yet, but I do have Linux PCs. Are there obstacles on SteamOS to be aware of or is it pretty much the same as running anything on any Linux?

[–] shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mostly the same as any linux distro. The biggest issue usually are users, since linux gamers usually are tech enthusiasts and understand what they are doing to a degree, but the steam deck is the 1st of its kind to make so many non tech enthusiasts have to dig into linux (because of it comming preinstalled instead of windows)

So that's that. Also steamdeck has specific issues but at the same time is easier to troubleshoot since it is the same system

[–] forrgott@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

As a newcomer, working with an immutable distro took some getting used to for sure. Once I learned some of the basic things like unlocking the filesystem so I can pull the list of packages, that kinda stuff, it got a lot easier!

[–] azron@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Yes please!

[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I am down to help with the wiki. I'm a systems engineer and I can probably automate most of the things that you write guides for, and probably already have some stuff put together even.

I don't really have any credentials to show without defeating my privacy, but here are some links that maybe show I'm not messing around 😅 I'm currently building some social profiles to get ready for a few games I'm developing and planning to make open source or source-available, so that's why all these accounts are fairly newish.

Mainly giving these to show that I'm not lazy when it comes to documentation.

[–] shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

Hello! I appreciate your desire to help in here! I was planning on using the Wiki tool from this instance, but I believe there's no way of making edits on it unless you have an account on lemmy.dbzer0.com

If you want, we can have a chat on DMs

[–] PerfectDark@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hey all,

flwwhtrbt here (if you need to confirm it, you can probably reach out to my friend agaric on the SDP sub-reddit, or even go to my mastodon and reach out there - where I can confirm this in person!)

Nice to see the community kinda in place here, though it feels quite ghost-town-y

What plans are in place here?

[–] shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

Hello! I'm writting some guides myself, as I'd rather compile some content that I have verified and is not a copy paste from other places. Still, I'm working, slowly, but working.

You're welcome in here, we can talk on DMs