I’m using Bazzite (42, Deck, Gnome, AMD) as a general purpose OS on my Thinkpad, and oddly enough despite being game focused it’s one of the best work OS experiences I’ve had. (I find the game software harder to set up right than the productivity software, so I like having that work done for me. It’s also nice to be able to switch between game and work environments, and everything seems very stable.)
But I can’t take it on the road because I have basically no security. I have a user account with a password and auto-login is turned off in Gnome settings, and screen lock is turned on, but still I’m not being asked for a password to log in. I do have a pin set in game mode, but no security in desktop mode.
Can anybody point me in the right direction?
I don’t know about GNOME, but on KDE you can still enable the lock screen on both normal and deck images, though for deck images on systems with no keyboard you need to enable maliit-keyboard which isn’t the best and can be rather intrusive.
I do have a keyboard (this is a laptop) but Gnome is definitely what I want for this use case. (I tried to make the KDE one work for my work on another computer and there are some particular things Gnome does better, like OneDrive and GDrive integration.)
Understandable.
Personally, for a long time I used onedriver for OneDrive, and then returned to onedrive-abraunegg when it got a GUI. For GDrive, the KDE built-in one worked well enough for me, though there are several Flatpak as well. Haven’t looked into it in a long while after I migrated to SyncThing, and then Resilio Sync as I got tired of paying for OneDrive.
I do have a pin set in game mode, but no security in desktop mode.
This is how it works on SteamOS on the Steam Deck as well. The installer has an option to encrypt the drive beforehand but of course that only appears on the first reboot. The intention is that you will be in Steam Gaming Mode most of the time on the -deck image, so a pin should suffice.
Well drat. Okay, rebase to bazzite-gnome:stable gives me a login screen and gaming in desktop mode is almost as good, so I guess I’ll stick with that until I can figure something out. This will still beat the snot out of most OS options.