this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2024
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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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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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[–] jordanlund 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some games have security software that requires Windows. Destiny 2 for example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@jordanlund Too true. Does this new arc version of SteamOS allow for dual booting?

[–] jordanlund 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As far as I'm aware, all Steam Decks can dual boot. On my machine you hold volume down on power on to access the boot manager.

I didn't partition the internal drive because I wanted to preserve the original install, so I boot from the external SSD for Win 11.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

@jordanlund Yep, just looked into it. Only the original SteamOS (Debian) couldn't dual-boot.

Sweet, so that's a bonus.