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Steam Deck

Plugins and Utilities​

Pause Games​

Pause Games gives you the ability to suspend the game, or you can configure it to suspend it when switching between games.

CryoUtilities​

CryoUtilities has some tuning options mostly for memory. I use it to tune the swap file size to 32GB to help with suspending games.

Nested Desktop​

Nested Desktop looks like an interesting feature. I haven't fully tested it yet.

SSH Server​

  1. Set a password for the deck user: 
    passwd
  2. Enable sshd: 
    sudo systemctl enable sshd --now

ProtonUp-QT​

Some games would are more compatible with GE-Proton. To install and manage proton-ge versions and add the option to the steam client, I use ProtonUp-Qt.