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Games and Software
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Discord
Discord is an application with modern voice & text chat app. It provides clear voice, multiple server and channel support, mobile apps, and more. It's available on Linux, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and your web browser. Flatpak verion
Steam
Plugins
Decky Loader is a plugin loader tool for the Steam Deck.
Features:
- Clean injecting and loading of one or more plugins.
- Persistent, meaning it doesn't need to be reinstalled after every system update.
- Allows 2-way communication between the plugins and the loader.
- Allows plugins to define python functions and run them from javascript.
- Allows plugins to make fetch calls, bypassing cors completely.
A list of available plugins for Decky Loader can be found in this store.
Crankshaft is a Steam client plugin manager and framework. It lets you install and create plugins to add more functionality to your Steam client. Available as a Flatpak
Steam Deck PowerTools is a plugin for Decky that provides system tweaks for power users.
- Enable & disable CPU threads & SMT
- Set CPU max frequency and toggle boost
- Set some GPU power parameters (fastPPT & slowPPT)
- Set the fan RPM (unsupported on SteamOS beta)
- Display supplementary battery info
- Keep settings between restarts (stored in ~/.config/powertools.json)
Steam Deck
Steam Tinker Launch is a Linux wrapper tool for use with the Steam client which allows customizing and start tools and options for games quickly on the fly.
Improving Battery Life
Steam Deck - How To Get The Best Battery Life In Games! | The Phawx YouTube
auto-cpufreq is an automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux based on active monitoring of laptop's battery state, CPU usage, CPU temperature and system load. Ultimately allowing you to improve battery life without making any compromises.
Power-Control-Panel is a software tool that allows easy change of TDP on windows handheld devices(including Steam Deck). Features include:
- Configurable profiles with charger vs battery values -xinput TDP change capability (hold LB, RB, and a dpad direction)
- Assign an exe to a profile to auto start when exe opens
- Auto startup at logon to system tray
- Touch friendly interface, keyboard (mostly) not required.
Power Control App | Project-SBC YouTube
File Transfer
KDE Connect is a tool that lets you easily link up your phone to your computer, your computer to your tablet; or your computer to your Steam Deck device. It can be used to share files across devices, read and send SMS directly from your laptop, and lock up your computer remotely.
Warpinator is a free, open-source tool for sending and receiving files between computers that are on the same network. Warpinator Flatpak
FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface. FileZilla Flatpak
Dragit is an application for intuitive file sharing between devices. It's useful for when you want to send file from one computer to another with minimal effort. Dragit automatically detects devices in the local network with help of mDNS protocol and allows you to send file immediately. Dragit Flatpak
WinFsp is a set of software components for Windows computers that allows the creation of user mode file systems. In this sense it is similar to FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace), which provides the same functionality on UNIX-like computers.
SSHFS-Win is a minimal port of SSHFS to Windows. Looking under the hood it uses Cygwin for the POSIX environment and WinFsp for the FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) functionality.
RiftShare is a cross platform (Windows, MacOS, Linux) file sharing tool that supports fully encrypted transfers both on the local network and off network using a simple passphrase. RiftShare uses magic-wormhole under the hood and is compatible with other magic-wormhole clients. It is also fully open source and licensed under the GPLv3. RiftShare Flatpak
SyncThing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes. Works with Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, OpenBSD, Android, and many others. Downloadable in Discover. It's also open source and licensed under the MPL-2.0 license.
Usermode FTP Server is a tool that let's you start an FTP server as user and transfer files with any FTP client. Allowing you to access your files directly with many file browsers' builtin FTP support: Windows File Explorer, Thunar, Gnome Files, Dolphin and many more. Usermode FTP Server on FlatHub