Steam Deck Tips

Wiki and files relevant to my Steam Deck tinkering, and all things about NOT playing games on your portable gaming PC

Table of Contents

Useful Websites

• protondb.com user reports for game compatibility and configurations
• SteamGridDB.com download cover art for your non-steam games
• r/SteamDeck popular reddit sub for all things Steam Deck
• ShareDeck.games user reports for optimal settings for games

🐧 SSH (Secure Shell)

🐧 Setting up SSHD

🔒 Setup Private RSA Keypair and disable password authentication EXTRA CREDIT!

🐧 Map Network Drives in Windows to your Deck (SSHFS-Win, WinFsp)

Proton Tricks (Install Windows Dependencies and Manage WINE prefixes)

💻 Installing Proton Tricks (GUI)

🐧 installing Proton Tricks (shell)

📜 List detected Steam Games (shell)

🔍 Search for an available dependency

💻 Install Windows Dependencies

💥 Reset WINE prefix

💻 Scripts

Install Steam Games from Windows Desktop to SteamDeck (CopyToDeck)

📖 List All Steam Games (GetSteamGames)

🔧 Steam Link (Remotely control your Steam Deck from your PC)

🔨 Setting up Steam Link

🔨 Steam Link Pairing

🔨 Use Steam Link in Windowed Mode

🎮 Non-Steam Games

🔍 Find the exe path for non-steam files

💿 Managing Storage

🔨 BoilR (import non-steam shortcuts and cover art)

🔨 BoilR (import cover art from SteamGridDB)

🎮 Battle.net

🎮 Origin (EA)

🎮 Epic Games Store

🔧 Steam Launch Options

🔧 Logging