cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39957209
Hello lemmings, I’ve once again come for your advice. I’ve built a sff system with a dual boot bazzite os. This will be mostly for my kids playing games and media serving from Big picture in the living room. I’m trying to figure out the best way to set up the accounts. Ideally it would be as close to a console experience as possible but I want to make sure each kid can save their own progress. What’s my best option here? Does everyone need their own os account that signs them into steam properly? I’ve never set up a system for multiple users before.
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Edit: thanks for all the feedback! I’m leaning towards single system account with multiple steam accounts. Now I just need to figure out how to keep myself signed in on steam so I don’t have to put my PW in every time. Thanks a ton!
If your kids are only going to be using big picture mode in steam, then one system account will work. The steam deck only has one system user with the ability to have multiple steam accounts and that works great for multiple users, from my experience.
For anyone interested in a great dual use system for regular desktop use and a console-like experience, I recommend checking out nixos and jovian-nix: https://jovian-experiments.github.io/Jovian-NixOS/
I’m using it on my main PC and it works incredibly well to mimic the steam deck experience using a full desktop on nixos 25.11