u/khannie

Yeah there's a reservation queue (you'll get it soon) and a waitlist (not so soon).

Oh shit. Thanks!

OK so I remembered. Downloaded and extracted it. Not a tool I'm familiar with but it worked fine first time. It's command line so I opened up a command prompt and got this output (snipped a bit as the output was long):

(deck@steamdeck ~)$ cd Downloads/pandoc-3.9.0.2/bin/
(deck@steamdeck bin)$ ./pandoc --help
pandoc [OPTIONS] [FILES]
  -f FORMAT, -r FORMAT  --from=FORMAT, --read=FORMAT                                          
  -t FORMAT, -w FORMAT  --to=FORMAT, --write=FORMAT                                           
  -o FILE               --output=FILE     
  etc......

Does that help?

I see you're coming from windows so how comfortable are you with the command line? I see someone else mentioned that there is a frontend available which might be more useful to you if the answer is "not very".

FYI tab is your friend on the command line as it will autofill stuff for you. So I didn't actually type "cd Downloads/pandoc-3.9.0.2/bin/" I just typed cd Down (tab) p (tab) and it filled it to "cd Downloads/pandoc-3.9.0.2/"

edit: The ./ is essential once you're in the directory when you're running stuff this way. It essentially means "in this directory, run ...". Otherwise the shell will just look in your $PATH directories list and not find "pandoc" anywhere in it. You can add "." to your $PATH to avoid this but it's not there by default on the deck.

Mine is:

(deck@steamdeck bin)$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl

Last thing - I know you weren't confident picking the right package to download. For binaries you're always looking for stuff with "linux-amd64" or similar in the name for the deck.

There's also a cool little community that you might like called "Linux Upskill Challenge" which you can find at:

!linuxupskillchallenge@programming.dev

It brings you through basics on a day by day basis and on to slightly more advanced stuff as you go.

Righto. I'll download it in the morning and get back to you with specifics.

If you haven't heard from me in 12 hours I've forgotten so give me a nudge please. Eyes closing here as it's very late. :)

Not at my deck right now as it's late here but they do provide a statically linked binary on their download page which should be all you need.

The one you want is:

https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/download/3.9.0.2/pandoc-3.9.0.2-linux-amd64.tar.gz

Download that and extract it somewhere / anywhere and you should be able to run it directly.

You may need to add "execute" permissions to it after extraction but probably not.

Edit: if you've any troubles give me a poke and I'll get you exact instructions in the morning here.

You can check now. I get pricing in euros so assume it's available and someone else in the thread said they got a "not available".

I have yet to figure out what good motion controls are in game with any controller.

Same. I think this puts me off using the deck more undocked. Not sure if I just need to eat the pain of getting used to them but the gap versus a mouse is just so huge.

I have a dock. Highly recommend it if you don't have a desktop. It's a one second plug in for games that are better with keyboard and mouse (RTS / FPS).

SBU > FSB 🌻🌻

I have both on my way home from work conveniently, but the Lidl is handier so I use that and not so much the Aldi, but I thought I might be missing some hidden gems. :)

We don't have either of those here unfortunately.

Oh they do yeah. Lots of varieties and very cheap too. The brown fusili with pesto is a favourite with the kids.

Have you other large discount supermarkets there? Other than Lidl that is.

They both absolutely dominate the discount section in Ireland but thankfully have driven down prices in the other large chains.

You chime in pal. Pure shite. 1/10. Like they put calories in my belly but it was a chore to eat them.

I wonder if yours are different. Hang on I'll get a pic....

edit:


Yeah their fresh baked section is very good generally. I've a 15 year old who is madly in love with their apple turnovers. I can make her day for the low, low price of 99c. :D

They do a really nice brown soda bread in Ireland but if you're not in early it's *always* sold out. Aldi does have a decent fresh baked section too mind you.

You're not going to believe this but someone else commented above that it might be the HDMI cable or monitor and unbelievably they were correct. Ping immediately restored once I unplugged it then went bad again when I replugged.

I've rotated the deck 90 degrees and it's a lot better.

**Holy. Fucking. Shit.**

This was it.

Here's my ping output. You can see where I unplugged and replugged the HDMI cable. Absolutely not in my wildest dreams would I have thought of this. Thank you so much.

(1)(deck@steamdeck ~)$ ping google.ie
PING google.ie (74.125.193.94) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=1 ttl=108 time=818 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=2 ttl=108 time=674 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=3 ttl=108 time=308 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=4 ttl=108 time=289 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=5 ttl=108 time=404 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=6 ttl=108 time=25.7 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=7 ttl=108 time=17.2 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=8 ttl=108 time=19.6 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=9 ttl=108 time=18.6 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=10 ttl=108 time=19.4 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=11 ttl=108 time=17.0 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=12 ttl=108 time=16.0 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=13 ttl=108 time=17.0 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=14 ttl=108 time=17.5 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=15 ttl=108 time=25.2 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=16 ttl=108 time=17.1 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=17 ttl=108 time=15.2 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=18 ttl=108 time=19.7 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=19 ttl=108 time=14.0 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=20 ttl=108 time=21.2 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=21 ttl=108 time=20.3 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=22 ttl=108 time=18.8 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=23 ttl=108 time=13.9 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=24 ttl=108 time=18.1 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=25 ttl=108 time=12.9 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=26 ttl=108 time=17.9 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=27 ttl=108 time=16.1 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=28 ttl=108 time=19.1 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=29 ttl=108 time=15.1 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=30 ttl=108 time=16.2 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=31 ttl=108 time=16.4 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=32 ttl=108 time=18.1 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=33 ttl=108 time=21.7 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=34 ttl=108 time=23.2 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=35 ttl=108 time=411 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=36 ttl=108 time=287 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=37 ttl=108 time=412 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=38 ttl=108 time=2445 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=39 ttl=108 time=1679 ms
64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=40 ttl=108 time=666 ms
^C
--- google.ie ping statistics ---
41 packets transmitted, 40 received, 2.43902% packet loss, time 40064ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 12.890/223.052/2445.465/478.256 ms, pipe 3

Thanks. I can't see it in the KDE settings but will give that a whirl.

It's WiFi, 3rd party dock (but deck WiFi), ISP router which is unaffected on other devices, OS is right up to date.

I did reboot the ISP router just before posting and the issue still persisted until I rebooted the deck at which point it was gone.

edit: It's gone to shit again. I got a network analyzer on my phone and ping is clean as a whistle on it while the deck is averaging 400ms.