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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.

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[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.

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To be clear, while the article says this is "official support", this is only drivers provided by valve.

Per valve:

We are providing these resources as is and are unfortunately unable to offer 'Windows on Deck' support.

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[–] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 27 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (13 children)

who would use it when Linux just works in addition to Microsoft's continued enshitification of Windows?

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 15 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

The only reason to use Windows over Linux is compatibility with certain games (or even applications). Also the price of the device is pretty low. That means people who are interested into handheld PCs who want to use it as a sort of laptop for cheap and don't care about Linux, can still install Windows on it. I'm not recommending it, but I'm glad people have this option and Valve is not actively trying to stop people (unlike other companies).

[–] embed_me@programming.dev 10 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah I'm sure they have their reasons but if it were up to me I would never allocate resources for that.

"Let it rot and fester somewhere else"

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