The Steam Deck is a great piece of techonolgy, and very versatile thanks to the fact that its easy to switch to desktop mode. However the default configuration is rather limited, and there are a set of customizations I had to apply to make it fit my workflows.
When taking notes I prefer to launch a note-taking application, write a line, or two, then close the application. Having used Vimwiki for a couple of days, I had to create a desktop entry wrapper around it, just to avoid the "Open Terminal first", step.
Frustrated by some weird default keyboard backlight timeout on your laptop under Linux? I know how you feel, had the same frustration with my Dell laptop until I found a workaround.
Common debugging steps you can try if it doesn't get automounted like it should.
Repository setup that I've used in the past for static blog publishing via Sculpin. Model inspired by Octopress in it's repository setup.