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Steam Deck

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A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.

Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.

As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title

The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.

Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.

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Source is this video:

Windows Was The Problem All Along - Dave2D

We could obviously compare performance between windows and steamOS before on the steam deck, or between windows and Bazzite on other handhelds. But this is the first time we have had official windows and SteamOS builds for the same hardware.

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[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

I've tested out Manjaro, KDE Neon, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Debian, Mint, and Fedora - across two desktops and a laptop.

Problems have been all over the spectrum. Not being to install at all, trouble getting it to dual boot after installing (despite following a guide), getting NAS drives to be writeable, hardware compatibility, finding alternatives to proprietary software which may or may not do everything the original did, and more.

I'm semi enjoying the tinkering for now, and I'm not regretting trying to de-Windows as much as possible, but I think people who say Linux is ready for mainstream are out of touch with the average person's computer literacy.

[–] toodd@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

dual booting anything with windows (including another copy of windows) is an insufferable nightmare caused by windows.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not all instances were dual booting, nor are all of the problems I've encountered or described above related with dual booting.

[–] toodd@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

👍 completely valid. just pointing out windows is a malicious cohabitant on a drive

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Even among that I've varied. In one installation I have Windows sharing a drive, separate partition for Linux. In another computer they're on completely different drives.

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