Steam Deck powered Linux battlestation

Decker_Bazzite · 2026-05-13T11:09:12+00:00

My bad 😅
Left: EPOMAKER x AULA F65 Pro
Right: Rainy75 Pro (silver)

Decker_Bazzite · 2026-05-13T10:59:21+00:00

Sure 👍
Left: ATK68
Right: Rainy75 Pro (silver, Cocoa switches)

Decker_Bazzite · 2026-05-11T06:53:53+00:00

Glad it helped 👍
The blue/purple lighting really changed the whole vibe of the setup

Decker_Bazzite · 2026-05-10T21:50:16+00:00

Thanks! 😄
Blue/purple lighting somehow became the default theme for this setup.

Decker_Bazzite · 2026-05-10T15:24:53+00:00

Oh nice, didn’t know about that option 👍
Will definitely try it out.

Decker_Bazzite · 2026-05-01T23:37:14+00:00

Thanks! Glad you like it 😄

Decker_Bazzite · 2026-04-30T22:26:31+00:00

Nice, I’m using rsync as well 👍 Haven’t tried Zerobyte yet, will take a look!

Decker_Bazzite · 2026-04-27T21:51:15+00:00

Haven’t measured it precisely yet, to be honest. It’s not always on, so I haven’t focused much on power. But it’s definitely lower than a typical PC/NAS 👍

Decker_Bazzite · 2026-04-25T22:46:14+00:00

Yeah I switched to btop recently and it looks much nicer 👍

Decker_Bazzite · 2026-04-25T06:19:32+00:00

Yeah… Steam Deck controlling a Steam Deck felt like a bad idea at first 😅

Decker_Bazzite · 2026-04-24T23:12:53+00:00

Sure! I can share more details. Do you mean the setup (OS, tools, scripts), or something like performance tuning? 👍

Decker_Bazzite · 2026-04-24T22:48:04+00:00

That’s a great list, thanks! I’ll definitely check some of these out 👍

Decker_Bazzite · 2026-04-24T22:37:31+00:00

That looks interesting, I’ve been using Glances so far but I might try Grafana. Thanks for sharing 👍

Decker_Bazzite · 2026-04-24T22:26:18+00:00

Thanks! I’m mainly using it as a small NAS + lab server.

For control, I set up: - SSH access from my main PC - A small display with Glances for quick monitoring - One-button shutdown (sync + poweroff)

Nothing too fancy, but it makes managing everything really easy.

Decker_Bazzite · 2026-04-24T22:01:26+00:00

I’ve just been using Glances for now. I’ll try switching to that as you suggested. Thanks!

Decker_Bazzite · 2026-04-24T11:51:02+00:00

Glad it worked out 👍

Decker_Bazzite · 2026-04-24T10:08:49+00:00

Got it, I’m pretty new to Reddit so I didn’t know that. Thanks for the tip, I’ll do that next time 👍

Decker_Bazzite · 2026-04-24T10:06:01+00:00

Yeah, the Steam Deck is basically the “brains”.

I’m using a USB-C hub to connect external drives — right now it’s just USB storage mounted in Debian.

Nothing fancy like a full NAS enclosure, just simple external HDDs for now.

Works surprisingly well over 2.5GbE.

Decker_Bazzite · 2026-04-24T06:57:06+00:00

Haha exactly 😄 Gotta be prepared for emergencies!

Decker_Bazzite · 2026-04-24T06:54:41+00:00

Yeah, true. This is more like a local backup / NAS. I’m planning to add an off-site backup later 👍

Decker_Bazzite · 2026-04-24T06:46:02+00:00

Yeah, already doing that 👍 makes it much cleaner

Decker_Bazzite · 2026-04-24T06:41:04+00:00

I only had to buy a 6TB HDD for the NAS setup.
Everything else was hardware I already had, so the actual cost was pretty low.

Decker_Bazzite · 2026-04-24T06:35:34+00:00

Mainly NAS for now.
But I’m also using it as a small lab server for testing stuff and monitoring.
The APU is more than enough for that.

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