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I only game on my steamdeck now. And it has practically zero security on it. Admin has no password. When I realized that I then came to the conclusion that Steam doesn't give a fuck about security.
I tried setting an admin password on it and it broke everything. So it's in a penalty box on my network and can't access anything except the outside internet and I do nothing with it but game.
As someone who duly boots linux and windows I feel like you're bullshitting here or didn't read manpages and put in a wrong command which you thought did something you wanted but actually fucked up your system
Linux is very easy to break if you want to do it intentionally due to its freedom but I'd you know how to use it correctly it'll serve you well
Yeah, I have not a clue how they bricked their steam deck just setting a sudo password, its not exactly difficult to set. That, and stuff like SSH is disabled by default on a steam deck.
I was able to change the root password on mine from the terminal in Desktop Mode and have had no issues thus far.
You don't set an admin password on Linux, you use sudo with your normal account's password if you need to do anything important. It doesn't work the same way as Windows.