Unlocking the Steam Deck

44 thoughts on “Unlocking the Steam Deck”

1. 👍👍

2. Ok, so I'm confident now about setting up Linux Mint as second system for my Steam Deck to learn how to use Linux 🙂 Why not anything else? Because I already familiar with it a bit.

3. Everyone used to be like “just use arch. It’s so easy.” That looks annoying and difficult.

4. im using my steam deck as linux desktop. I have attached a 100 terabyte nas via network through the dolphin via sftp (kind of wonky) smb better. and having a blast. office, multimedia, its fantastic.

5. Just a warning. None of this works on the new oled steam decks. They completely locked out all sudo rights and removed neofetcher, pacman, and yay.

6. DAMN ! THIS IS THE VIDEO I WAS NEEDING TO KNOW IF I COULD DAILY DRIVE THE STREAM DECK AS A NORMAL LAPTOP ! TO BUY OR NOT THIS THING INSTEAD OF A LAPTOP !

7. Chris
   Hello from Germany

   Could you please make a video how you do that today?
   I mean how you set it up so that you don't loose anything after new SteamOS update?

   Would be awesome!

8. What commands do I use in order to Install packages on SteamOS using its Linux Konsole?

9. please just update the keys with pacman-key –refresh-keys. gpg-keys are important for security.

10. what if yay command not found

11. Complete Noob question, Can I just lock the steam after unlocking it to install only some program I need just to avoid f-ing up the OS ?

12. Getting a permission denied prompt. Any idea?

13. hi i have the problem that yay command not found. do u have any solution

14. Is it possible to add a printer to steam deck? Are there print driver issues?

15. Hi Chris. Any plan to do a video on optimizing windows on SteamDeck? I think it would be really popular.

16. it's asking for a password after I put in the unlock account. Don't know what the password is.

17. Hey great video. The device is not encrypted though. And that's a huge issue for a mobile person device. Could you show us how we can add fde if it's possible at all?

18. watching this on my deck. how do you prevent it getting wiped on update

19. Who ever is following the online guide you will have issues just copying and pasting
    sudo pacman -U archlinux-keyring-20220713-2-any.pkg.tar.zst during the signing issues step.
    Because the file you download from archlinux is now named archlinux-keyring-20220727-any.pkg.tar.zst.
    To fix this.. paste sudo pacman -U archlinux-keyring-20220727-any.pkg.tar.zst into the konsole instead.

20. I just have to run this from time to time and pacman works for me, didn't need to disable signing :
    pacman-key –init
    pacman-key –populate archlinux

    So i just put this in a shell script on my home folder

21. Dude don't make it so complicated
    1. passwd
    2. sudo pacman-key –init
    3. sudo pacman-key –populate archlinux
    Now you can test if it worked
    4. sudo pacman -S archlinux-keyring
    5. sudo pacman -S kitty
    was that so hard?

22. can you show me how to install Chrome remote desktop love your videos

23. You can append the archlinux repos in your /etc/pacman.conf to install and track the archlinux-keyring package

24. My guy @1:05 that's exactly what I been looking for I have a spare Ryzen 5700G system with a 3060 here I was attempting Android TV on x86 bleh trash fire.

    Thank you this will make my Nvidia shield finally forced retirement.

25. Can you do a comparison between ChromeOS and SteamOS, your thoughts on their goals and which is more usable ?

26. I recommend using paru instead of yay.

27. Great video. I had Ubuntu around 2016. Gaming was bad on it and my PC was too slow for Win 7 until I upgraded and went back to win a year later. Now I soon want to try to leave windows for good.

28. Now you are going into unshown territory for the Steam Deck.

29. I am pretty certain that this PGP-signature-problem would disappear if you would use Paru. Paru won't fix broken scripts but it will get PGP-keys for you as I remember it.

30. Your the Real Linux Tech tips ..wish you got more views!! doing lords good work!!

31. If it were up to me I would have already switched to Windows OS Since I'm going to miss a lot of good function on steam OS
    I'm still on the main gaming mode for that reason
    I myself have no knowledge of linux, but is it useful then valve then switch to this variant that you do not like?

32. The security thing i do find that a big deal tbh. as it is such a easy target in to becoming a botnet or something

33. Do you have a guide how to setup Kitty like you have it here?

34. hello pls make video how to open league of legends on steam for other destros. i'm manjaro user and I will be so glad to see this video for manjaro.

35. When Arch is intermediate for you, what is "pro"? Debian, Gentoo and Slackware? (serious question) 🙂

36. Chris: "They could do better on security…"
    Also Chris, disable all security mitigatins for 5-10% performance boost

37. I moved from windows to linux and xmonad and i'm really. Happy with it the only thing that i used to play with efootbal an they dont have a linux version is there any way around it

38. tq cHRIS

39. Chris hates Arch because he likes easy things, Arch is not for the lazy-I-Want-It-Easy people. I have been using linux since 1999 and I have not found a distro that is so flexible and complete as Arch is. For me Debian/Red Hat based distros are pure garbage.

40. soo basically steam machines are back!!!

41. still waiting on mine :'( preordered the highest end 7/20/21…
    love all your videos – so cool to see you wound up liking this hardware! Makes my wait even harder LOL but it's all good

42. Honestly, I'm afraid to do this lol

43. Updating your steamdeck OS is going to be a bitch.

44. Brave 🤮

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