I'm very happy with my [[Steam Deck]]. I also installed [[Bazzite]] a couple of times recently on the ASUS [[MiniPC PL63]] I have at the office, and then again recently on the [[ASUS ZenBook]] I dug out for the [[Z-Space Electronics Bazaar]].

So, I'm spending some time getting the desktop setup on the Steam Deck. Here are a few notes on the setup.

June 9th, 2025#

Docked with the [[Home Lab]] KVM Switch [[VisionTek VT2900]], so full size mouse / keyboard / monitor / headphones etc. all plugged in. I already play some games on the Steam Deck this way for which a full keyboard + mouse works better.

I didn't actually realize there is a Linux version of [[Obsidian]] -- great, installed!

I already had Chrome installed, I ended up installing the 1Password browser extension and from there grabbed the Flatpak install.

Which means being able to login to Bluesky and other things for reading and posting.

Since I keep my main Obsidian vault (that runs this [[BMC]] site) in github, I had to figure out how to auth with github.

Decided to create a deploy key for the repo, with write access.

Then, on Steam Deck, Manually created the .ssh folder and copied the private key in as id_ed25519, learning once again that chmod 0600 is the right permissions for a private key file.

Cloned the repo and launched into it with Obsidian and now I'm typing this! Have to remember that I have the Obsidian config files in the gitignore. Might re-think that.

Considered installing Discord, but just going to run that in a browser window.

I haven't really gotten into anything other than VSCode based stuff, maybe I'll put Zed on here? [[micro]] and nano work fine too.