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Life & fun · December 21, 2022

Install Nix on Your Steam Deck

I wrote an article about how to get Nix on your Steam Deck! Big takeaways for me: * Steam Decks are very fun to hack on * Linux Consoles are good * There are more knobs in systemd units than I remember * Flatcar Linux is a thing that exists * Remoting into a console is fun * A/B boots are less interesting than one might expect when you're used to NixOS

Install Nix on Your Steam Deck launched on December 21, 2022 with 5 votes, #1,786 of 3,688 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

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