For those who don’t know, I’m a “gamer” in my spare time and the other night, comfortably installed on my couch with my Steamdeck, I wanted to check something on my Nutanix cluster…

Why not walk, start the computer and connect to the cluster? Laziness of course! And it was much more fun to do it on Valve’s portable console.

For those who are curious, here is the procedure!

Accessing the cluster: child’s play

To access my Nutanix cluster from the Steamdeck, I simply:

• switched the console to “Desktop” mode
• launched Microsoft Edge or Firefox
• entered the cluster address in the address bar

It’s nothing more or less than a browser on a Linux OS so nothing too difficult for now!

Add Prism to Steam to switch to “Nutanix Game Mode”

Launching the Prism interface on a browser in desktop mode is good, but having it in Game Mode is better! Game Mode is the integration of the web interface into the Steam launcher as if it were a game.

To set it up, it’s not extremely complicated. The first step is to add Mozilla Firefox as a non-Steam game directly from the Steam interface still in desktop mode:

Click on “Add a game > Non-Steam games”, select Firefox and click on “Add selection”:

Switch back to Game Mode, find Firefox in your game library under “Non-Steam Games”, open the properties of the “game” and rename it:

Then, in the launch options, add the following 2 options at the end of the line:

URL_PRISM_ELEMENT --kiosk

This will launch the web interface of your cluster when Firefox starts in full screen mode.

Then go to the controller settings of your game and change it to “Web browser”, this will make handling much easier:

There you have it, your Nutanix in Steamdeck mode is ready to use and it works like a charm: