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the problem lies in that many apps made for productivity are not made with small screens in mind. can it be done? yes, just as it can on any other PC. is the QoL on a steam deck for productivity as good as on a desktop or laptop?
most assuredly not.
the steam deck is great for gaming, and gets really good battery life with many 2d games, but I would not consider it all that useful for any sort of productivity tasks. I would go with an actual laptop for that sort of stuff.
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don’t use the discourse forum, most support is done on the very active Discord forum, where they have threaded rooms for people to open support tickets in.
also, Gaming Mode is very iffy on NVIDIA. the hybrid GPU situation doesn’t make it easier. if you don’t want to disable your iGPU, then picking an image without Game Mode is your best option. Even if you do disable the iGPU, you can expect further problems with it in the future if you are on NVIDIA. as of right now, Game Mode was built with the Steam Deck hardware in mind, and Valve has not yet perfected support for other hardware.
be advised that if you’re doing dev work on Bazzite, you might have to make use of a distrobox depending on the software you use. for example, VSCode is available as a Flatpak, but if you want to use other things with it like NPM, you’ll have much less headache trying to get it to work by installing it in a distrobox.
https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/posts/integrate_vscode_distrobox.md
My kids all use Linux, there’s not a Windows machine in the house.