A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.
Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.
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:
[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.
Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
You can download configuration files (wireguard preferably) from your protonvpn account in a web browser.
Open the network manager (idk what steam mode uses, this should work in desktop mode) and add a wireguard connection.
Add the private key, add the peer and its public key, add the dns. Save.
When you need it, simply connect to it like a regular network, in addition to your wifi of course.
This has served me well on Fedora Atomic workstation with KDE for years :)
I don't know about ProtonVPN specifically, but I've found if you set your VPN to connect automatically, it actually stops it from working entirely, so best to make sure you manually connect.
Same for me, automatic connection doesn't work.
For manual connection inside gaming mode I use this decky plugin: https://github.com/steve228uk/TunnelDeck
Saves me from having to go into desktop mode, connect, then back. I'm never sure if it the connection stays alive.
ProtonVPN has browser extensions now and using a systemwide vpn on a gaming device isnt a good idea.
Hello, you can install a Decky extension to use OpenVPN. And use protonVPN OpenVPN config in desktop mode. I use it on my deck work fine in both mode once configured
I hope you find a solution. I grew frustrated with the immutable desktop function of the SteamDeck, so I installed holoiso instead of SteamOS. Seems nearly identical, except that I can actually use the computer in desktop mode. Sleep is buggy now. I miss how well sleep worked in SteamOS.
So steam deck is arch based. I just installed arch on my desktop with gnome. I couldn’t get proton vpn to work at all until I installed network-manager-applet. Then it worked fine. (It wouldn’t connect). I had to do a ton of googling before I found that fix, I think a lot of people give up on proton vpn before they find that solution/dependency. It sounds like other packages can provide what proton-vpn is looking for, but I think network-manager-applet gets installed often enough as a dependency where it just works for some people, while for others getting proton to work is a chore. (I’m pretty sure it’s not installed on a fresh install with gnome - making getting proton to work on a bare bones install challenging). I dunno if that or another package is already there on the steam deck - but worth checking that line of troubleshooting out.
Now, if it’s not there - I don’t know the full dangers of installing that package on the steam deck, maybe someone smarter can comment on that. It should be noted that I installed network manager with pacman and proton vpn from the AUR. I don’t know how the flatpak would behave - but it didn’t work either without network manager installed.
Good luck!