I reserved a Deck day one within a minute and I think I might be in the initial launch (still no expected ship date listed though the payment processed and I got the confirmation email within a couple minutes). Whenever I get it, I’m hyped.

I’m not a typical user. I do enjoy handheld games, but I also am an Arch Linux user (btw), I deploy servers, I write code, blah blah blah. My current personal computer is an old T430, and I plan to use my deck as a daily driver as a desktop at home, a media center on the couch, handheld in bed, and a tablet on the go. To meet those use cases I plan to do a custom Arch install.

Is anyone else planning on doing something similar?

Some things I’m starting to plan out are:

  • Some sort of custom lockscreen that can use the deck controls to unlock or an onscreen keyboard.
  • E-reader mode
  • Audio mode
  • Kodi for media center and plex
  • RetroArch for retro games
  • Steam (of course)
  • Removal of telemetry and possibly iptable rules to block Steam telemetry if any
  • Graphical interface to do basic maintenance tasks without a keyboard (like a script launcher window). This could probably be the app launcher in gnome with some custom desktop entries
  • birokop@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    It’s already arch based, why would you reinstall it. It would probably be easier to just add those programs to it

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      3 years ago

      It’s “arch based”. How are the repos setup? What packages are pinned? What bloatware is added?

      Sure I can write a script to migrate everything to how I want it, but at a point it becomes easier (and cleaner) to do a custom install script that will build it up how I want it.