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Since the incident with infected AUR packages and now lately infected Rimworld mods on Workshop I’ve started to wonder how likely it is to get actual Malware on a Steam Deck (considering how most are targeted at Windows users but even that is changing as Linux is getting more popular) and Steam Deck itself not having a anti-virus system like Windows defender the best defense for SD used it seems is "don’t get infected" and not "how to prevent it further when it’s breached" I wanted to ask:

What happens if you do get infected?

What are usually the signs a Linux machine like Steam Deck has malware on it and what can you do to fix and prevent it happing again properly?

So there’s of course the danger of running rm -rf as sudo without file path bc then it could delete root, but afaik some distros have a failsafe to prevent you doing this on accident and I wanted to ask if SteamOS also has a failsafe to prevent you to accidentally delete root?

(Already posted in https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamOS/s/EyKGfCckcl but it has been slow on comments and hoped maybe here someone had the odd knowledge regarding This Endeavour)

So I’ve made the funny idea that how fun it would be to make Steel Beasts run on SteamOS (specifically Steam Deck) and while I got the game/software itself to run I need to have CodeMeter Runtime which isn’t (afaik, if it is please tell me it’ll save my ass so much) on Protontricks as a component and also not available on Arch as it only has .deb and .rpm packages for Debian and Red-Hat distributions respectively.

I wanted to give up at this point only to run across Distrobox and wondered how easy it is using this to get Debian (or Debian related, Ubuntu should be the best candidate here?) environment and use CodeMeter from there as anything run/made from Distrobox is integrated to the host and therefore anything in /home?

So I’ve made the funny idea that how fun it would be to make Steel Beasts run on SteamOS (specifically Steam Deck) and while I got the game/software itself to run I need to have CodeMeter Runtime which isn’t (afaik, if it is please tell me it’ll save my ass so much) on Protontricks as a component and also not available on Arch as it only has .deb and .rpm packages for Debian and Red-Hat distributions respectively.

I wanted to give up at this point only to run across Distrobox and wondered how easy it is using this to get Debian (or Debian related, Ubuntu should be the best candidate here?) environment and use CodeMeter from there as anything run/made from Distrobox is integrated to the host and therefore anything in /home?

Are there high fidelity Tank sims (as in DCS levels of Sim and fidelity) except SB?

I’ve run into the issue with SB that it may not work on Linux at all due to CodeMeter (the only supported distros are Debian and RPM and I use Arch) and while I heard of GHPC (and I may be wrong here) didn’t the Devs specified of GHPC that they’ll only cover the Fulda Gap scenario and no other time frames, tanks, nations and scenarios?

Is there a high fidelity Tank simulator in the style of DCS world? I want to move away from WT but not go to more arcade style tank games like WoT?

*Now I have heard of steal beasts and it seems like exactly what I want…if there wouldn’t be the issue that it’s Linux compatibility is unknown especially the way it usage is of CodeMeter and afaik some DRM dongle?

So I’ve become invested into the world building of PM and the frankly Soul annihilating gameplay and story suffering (especially of Lobotomy Corporation) and I wondered:

How feasible is a Chronological run of every game, going:
LoboCorp > LoR > Limbus (preferably blind).

Or is there something I must be aware of if I plan to do this blind and most importantly, how much time would it take me to pull this off?

Has anyone experienced any issues regarding dust buildup inside a Steam Deck yet?

While at a friends place I left the Deck docked for multiple days over night outside the case and his place was kinda dusty so while I am was able to clean off the surface dust I’m actually not sure how it’s about Vents/Fan/Cooling?

Or what’s usually the time frame (if at all with SDs Fan design) for dust to buildup inside that it starts to cause issues?

While personally not using it my friend does use it for cosplay (I just use a cut slab as a stand cover for my Steam Deck) and I’d rather not have foam dust be inside the internals of the Steam Deck nor my lungs and I’ve seen a lot of posts how sanding can cause huge dust creation but what about cutting or static use and storage?

Does EVA degrade with simple handling or is it just sanding/friction specifically that causes EVA dust to happen?