---
title: The Steam Deck ships with WireGuard
date: 2024-06-28
desc: One less install required!
---

While I was poking around SteamOS, I tried to run wg-quick and was surprised to see it was preinstalled. I've been wanting to get into my Deck from my MacBook over a stable IP for a fair bit, and this means I can just add it to my private [fly.io](https://fly.io) network.

So I did that:

```
$ fly wg create personal yul mipha mipha.conf
```

And then I imported the config to my deck over normal SSH and activated it:

```
$ sudo cp mipha.conf /etc/wg-quick/fly0.conf

$ sudo systemctl enable --now wg-quick@fly0.service
```

And then I can ping it as normal:

```
$ ping6 fdaa:0:641b:a7b:9285:0:a:2502 -c4
PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) [scrubbed] --> fdaa:0:641b:a7b:9285:0:a:2502
16 bytes from fdaa:0:641b:a7b:9285:0:a:2502, icmp_seq=0 hlim=62 time=35.587 ms
16 bytes from fdaa:0:641b:a7b:9285:0:a:2502, icmp_seq=1 hlim=62 time=22.683 ms
16 bytes from fdaa:0:641b:a7b:9285:0:a:2502, icmp_seq=2 hlim=62 time=29.850 ms
16 bytes from fdaa:0:641b:a7b:9285:0:a:2502, icmp_seq=3 hlim=62 time=95.205 ms

--- fdaa:0:641b:a7b:9285:0:a:2502 ping6 statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 22.683/45.831/95.205/28.870 ms
```

Et voila! I'm in. Now it's easy to copy off the videos I got with Decky Recorder. Here's a few screenshots I've copied over:

<Picture path="blog/2024/steam-deck-wireguard/20231212171009_1" />

<Picture path="blog/2024/steam-deck-wireguard/20231212171009_1" />

<Picture path="blog/2024/steam-deck-wireguard/20231212171107_1" />

Hope this gives you ideas!

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This was originally a post on [X's article feature](https://x.com/theprincessxena/status/1806786540137275709), but it has been copied here in case the original is deleted, that product is cancelled, or some other bad thing happens.