Steam deck desktop setup

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.