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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.