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Steam Deck
The Steam Deck is a handheld gaming computer made by the same developers as Steam, Valve. Due to its form factor it can be used especially well to play games that need a controller, such as many games that run on emulators. But by adding a USB-hub and connecting keyboard and mouse it can be used to play classical PC games aswell. As the Steam Deck is using a linux based operating system all the windows based games are run with the help of Proton. The Steam Deck includes the Flatpak based Discover software management suite to install additional software.
Usage
Shortcuts
- Esc:
STEAM + D-Pad Left - Show Keyboard:
STEAM + X
Running a Game Directly Through the Interface
Simple programs can be started from inside the gaming mode by adding it as a non-Steam game.
For emulator games the setup is more complex. Firstly the emulator needs to be added as a non-Steam game. To run a game instantly the path to the ROM needs to be appended to the command used for starting the emulator needed for it. This should be made in quotation marks as it could contain characters that need to be escaped.
Afterwards the icons and banners of it can be set using SteamGridDB.
Plugin Manager Decky
The Steam Deck features a wide variable of customization options.
Some of these options can be accessed by installing
the plugin manager Decky.
To install it download the setup file from the
Github page and run it.
Afterwards the plugin manager will be available after pressing the ... button on the Deck and
navigating to the bottom of the menu.
There plugins can be installed and removed aswell as managed.
The following list includes some useful plugins.
- SteamGridDB can be used for setting new and better images for games.