People should know its an option they can. Explore. Especially since this person was using it as a reason to call the steamdeck not a PC.

You can install system wide apps by turning off immutabe mode and configurating something. I might be talking out my ass though cause I have done this but I don’t remember if it persisted across updates.

This only gets more effective by the year

Why are you trying to play over LAN instead of hosting the server and having both users connect?

If you’re set on playing over LAN you can try zerotier.

How the fuck is elden ring the most played. Is it even playable on the steamdeck?