Edit: As of five minutes ago, I am aware that there is no official ui for the elgato stream deck which is a huge disservice to the users of this expensive piece of hardware. I was under the impression that streamdeck-ui was the official (and very outdated) official version, which is false. Those who bothered to explain this, thank you very much. To those piling up on someone who just hasn’t as much knowledge as you do: feels bad man. Maybe consider that this is not reddit and schooling someone does not have to be aggressive.

Hi folks!

I have switched to my Linux daily driver this week and after some starting issues, it’s working quite well.

But a few bits and bobs are quite annoying, such as streamdeck ui. The windows version looks and feels like a spaceship compared to the barebones version I have on ubuntu 23.04

Here’s what the windows version looks like.

Additionally, the windows version has plugins and stuff that pretty much make giant scripts that can do pretty much anything and everything. The Linux version doesn’t even have it’s own pictures that come with it.

If you’re curious I just used apt install streamdeck-ui instead of the complex stuff that is on the web (and doesn’t work anymore because outdated).

Am I just using a really outdated version or is the linux version just trash?

TL;DR: Linux version of streamdeck ui looks 20 yrs old while the windows version looks like photoshop.

Thanks for reading. Have a good one!

  • Privatepower42
    0•1 year ago

    @RandomLegend @Haui steam deck needs to be more open. Have the option to go into desktop mode without having to sign into steam and drm free games be automatically be free of steam engine.

    • RandomLegend [He/Him]English
      1•1 year ago

      I understand where you’re coming from with this, but i disagree.

      The steamdeck as it is right now, doesn’t have to do that. It’s not meant to be a PC. It’s meant to be a handheld console that can also function as a PC. It’s main purpose is to open steam handheld, and play games from your steam account.

      The people who would use this thing as their main PC would have the technical know-how to configure it to boot into desktop mode without steam open.

    • Solar BearEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      It is open; if you want that, just install Linux on it yourself. Valve explicitly left it open so you can do that. The version Valve ships on the system is tailored for the Steam Deck. Obviously it’s going to prioritize Steam for ease of use. But nearly all of their work is open source and already merged upstream. You can just put regular Linux on in it.

      Anyways, I think you’re on the wrong thread.