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OpenBSD on Steamdeck? I acquired a steamdeck mainly to play older games. The power consumption is pretty good, CPU/GPU draw ~3 to 4W when playing fallout NV. The firmware offers some interesting features too. I successfully undervolted the CPU by -50mV and GPU by -30mV.
The stock steamOS offers a desktop mode, where the console would switch to KDE. When docked to an external monitor and keyboard, the console is somewhat serviceable for desktop stuff.
Anyone tried booting OpenBSD on the deck? Reddit tells me it should boot, but my expectation is low. any input on the level of hardware support would be much appreciated.
Dec 09 · 9 days ago
🐐 drh3xx [mod] · Dec 09 at 13:02:
I've not come across anyone trying it but if you find some info on any attempts I'd be interested in you sharing links :)
It should be pretty straight forward, it's designed to be Linux compatible and runs on a pretty standard laptop x86 setup. While the AMD APU was specifically made for the steamdeck, it very closely resembles AMD's laptop U cores (possibly is just a rebrand of the same thing).
So it should be pretty plug and play driver wise, you might see some incompatibilities with the screen and game components though, but that is to be expected.
If you just want a compact desktop experience, get a frame.work board and a desktop case for it. Same hardware, but better support for using as a desktop.