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Tailscale on the Steam Deck
This process is derived from the official guide, but with some tweaks to make the process smoother and produce an installation that both (1) comes up automatically on boot and (2) survives system updates.
Installing Tailscale
- Download the attached
tailscale.sh
andtailscaled.service
files to your Deck. - Copy the
tailscaled.service
file to/etc/systemd/system/
. - Run
sudo bash tailscale.sh
to install Tailscale (or update the existing installation). - Run
sudo tailscale up --qr --operator=deck --ssh
to have Tailscale generate a login QR code. Scan the code with your phone and authenticate with Tailscale to bring your Deck onto your network.
How it works
The Deck runs SteamOS 3, which is derived from Arch and thus uses a software
suite called systemd to manage services. The tailscaled.service
file is a
systemd unit file, which tells systemd how to start and manage the tailscale
daemon.