I propose a change with the project name that makes it less dominant on search engines when trying to find all available tools for deck.
Lets consider a scenario: the average person who isn't tech-savvy, trying to get some extras for their deck.
Unless this person has a specific issue to fix that leads them directly to a 3rd party tool, or they have prior knowledge of the tool they would like, there is currently an unnecessarily difficult experience for finding what tools even exist.
For example: Heroic, Lutris, PowerTools, etc. Any and all steamdeck-related projects that dont have "steamdeck"/"steam"/"deck" in their name.
Lutris wont be found unless their search is more to do with linux gaming than the deck. I just spent 10 minutes trying to figure out the name for Heroic all because "steamdeck tools" or any variation of it, nearly prevents any other project from showing. Even then i found it from a reddit post with a list of the various tools available.
Lets help people by not monopolizing search results.
Some proposed solutions:
A shortening of the name to SD Tools or something similar, would be an easy enough transition and would clean up searches.
Making a full masterlist of all tools, that can compete with this projects name for search results, hence increasing probability of someone finding all tools available.
Making this project have a master list of all tools available, regardless of them being supported by this project, just a wiki link at the top of the readme.
I propose a change with the project name that makes it less dominant on search engines when trying to find all available tools for deck.
Lets consider a scenario: the average person who isn't tech-savvy, trying to get some extras for their deck.
Unless this person has a specific issue to fix that leads them directly to a 3rd party tool, or they have prior knowledge of the tool they would like, there is currently an unnecessarily difficult experience for finding what tools even exist.
For example: Heroic, Lutris, PowerTools, etc. Any and all steamdeck-related projects that dont have "steamdeck"/"steam"/"deck" in their name.
Lutris wont be found unless their search is more to do with linux gaming than the deck. I just spent 10 minutes trying to figure out the name for Heroic all because "steamdeck tools" or any variation of it, nearly prevents any other project from showing. Even then i found it from a reddit post with a list of the various tools available.
Lets help people by not monopolizing search results.
Some proposed solutions: