Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
If your post is only relevant to one hardware device (Deck/Machine/Frame/etc) please specify which one as part of the title or by using a device flair.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.
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I meant "on lockscreen" mode...sry
Yeah, that shouldn't be a problem. I don't bother with a lockscreen because the device is unencrypted and it never leaves the house anyways. But if you were to set one up in desktop mode all the programs would continue running normally in the background.
A lockscreen does prevent a thief from using your Steam account... unless you can boot to desktop mode before typing in the password, haven't checked that.
Quick question: does the Steam Deck go into "auto-sleep"?
This can be configured to your liking. Especially in desktop mode.
Thank you
You can trivially set your own password when you take out the SSD or boot from an external medium.
I'm not 100% sure about lock screen behavior since I don't have one set myself but I know it doesn't go to sleep as long as you keep it in the downloads page and it still has pending downloads, so I'd guess the same applies there.