Grabbed 2 Steam games so far in this sale. ROOMS - The Toymaker's Mansion, and Tangle Tower. A puzzle game and a detective game. I've played Detective Grimoire before, so I'm familiar with the latter. ROOMS itself seems to be a very solid sliding puzzle game.

Also ordered me a Steam Deck Dock, forgot to mention that yesterday. Then I can use my Steam Deck as a full Linux system. Well that's my hope anyway, because I seriously don't use it as a gaming console much at the moment. My gaming laptop is more convenient. ;) I don't go out enough for a gaming handheld. :P

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@trinsec I have the similar plan, but concerning the network issue, I didn't order yet.

@trinsec Connecting steam from China. The workshop part has already been blocked, the steam services are not stable in China. I'm concerning a pacman -Syyu will take forever to finish 😂

@skyblond Well, you can just get to the Linux environment then, and just use Linux as is? The Dock would still make it easier to do that. I've tried putzing around with the trackpads and the Linux desktop.. it does work but damn is it annoying. Hence the Dock. ;)

@trinsec frankly speak, arch is not my dish, I mean "Syyu" for a system update, why?

I do hear people talking about the interface, it's really good in terms of Linux desktop. But I'm still scared by some package that only available on valve's server and take forever to download and update (and I strongly refuse to mess around with iptables to get proxy working, such a pain).

I'll try to convince my friend to order one and see how it works :ablobwink:

@skyblond @trinsec probably a good way to solve bouncing around is to have a docker with a VPN you can use as a proxy. That's what I have at home when I need to circumvent country limitations (not China mind you). Haven't used it with my deck though

@skyblond @trinsec as to the arch bit, I'm quite a fan of Manjaro. Have run through a manual arch install which was fun as a one off, but it felt like going back to the 90s. I prefer an arch base to canonical these days as it is more flexible.

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@wihou @trinsec Manjaro is great, solving a lot of issues (mostly driver issues) during installation. That's a pleasant experience from my memory, despite it takes forever to install packages from aur due to connectivity issues in China.

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