Im curious if anybody uses their steam deck for something other than gaming? I saw a dude use it as a kareoke machine. I also saw a dude use it as a teleprompter (weirdest by far). With all the software you can buy on steam, what are creative uses for the steam de k that isnt gaming related?

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    1 year ago

    Do you use any encryption on it? I couldn’t find an easy way to have everything behind encryption, that’s the biggest stopper for me from going all in with my SteamDeck.

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      1 year ago

      We might actually be able to fully encrypt user directories thanks to systemd-homed soon. Gnome is working on this and KDE also relies on accountsservice, which means Plasma users might benefit from this as well one day

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      1 year ago

      Full disk encryption, I don’t think so. But kde comes with something called vaults, which are basically just encrypted folders that can be mounted after entering a password. You can also access them without a GUI because vaults seem to be a frontend for gocryptfs. That should be enough for sensitive personal files.