Same. I’m no Linux veteran, but after messing with distros over the past two years between popos, Ubuntu, Linux4Tegra (distro for a hacked switch), and now SteamOS, I’ve boned up a little bit on what’s available. I recently saw a YouTube video highlighting some shenanigans from RedHat which, like you, makes me hesitant to give it a shot.
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Although not a direct answer, just wanted to give my experience.
Originally used a dedicated SD card for Windows, it worked fine but was warned that the constant read/write on the card could cause it to fail quicker than its normal lifespan. Since I didn’t want to fiddle with it in another year or two, I ended up getting a bigger internal drive (2tb nvme) and dedicated 1tb to SteamOS and the other TB to windows. Then have a 1tb SD card for the majority of games on my SteamOS side of the house.
I personally use a custom windows 10 install for that side, which helps prevent Windows from overriding the REFInd boot. However I did notice that when I updated SteamOS to the main branch, it borked REFInd and had to select SteamOS boot file through the file manager on boot, then reinstall REFInd via the normal script on desktop mode.
Just some considerations for you as your journey through your dual boot adventure.
You’re not wrong. Any and all faith I had in Blizzard went away over the course of the past decade, with it evaporating completely during the past 3 years. I don’t even want to think how they’ll muck up SC3 at this rate.
I would pay for something similar to the DeckHD screen if it had the same color improvements, retained the 800p and didn’t need a custom BIOS flash (like the DeckHD needs). I already have the Anti Glare screen, so need something worth the effort of a full screen replacement. If I busted my current screen, then I would buy this versus the “regular” replacement via ifixit.
I remember awhile back when steam deck and emudeck were in their early early stages and complaints about how it was hard to fully remove emudeck as the files were still located in several different directories. Don’t know how much that pain point has changed personally, but I think retrodeck made it simpler to install/uninstall.
Personally I use emudeck, and haven’t had the need to uninstall, so can’t attest to the accuracy of that claim. But can assume for those folks that are worried about it, retrodeck fills that.
Visible to me on wefwef too, but I didn’t look at the text below either since it was called out lol
I’m on the fence about the whole thing. The big turnoff for me was the custom BIOS. Personally, if they can get the same 800p screen but better in terms of color accuracy, I might bite on that. But like others have said, don’t know if I want to push the deck’s hardware into 1200p when it was designed with 800p in mind
This is the dealbreaker for me. I was looking at earnestly upgrading the screen despite the effort/patience needed to do the swap, potential battery drain, etc. But the fact you need a third party bios flash is the bridge too far. I just want to make sure I don’t run into a situation where they stop support and now I’ve got to swap the screen again.
They are constantly improving it, so I have hope. Last September I tried running Unreal Championship 2 on the deck via xemu, and it played like a power point when I was in a match. I tried revisiting that again this past week and it’s significantly better, with only a slight stutter here and there. Give it another few months and you may be pleasantly surprised.
That sounds like a marketing bullet point; -Xbox - comes with 1x monthly use of the gamer word
Gaming communities online tend to be circle jerking echo chambers that either go full toxic shit-fit mode or full praise mode and shit on anyone with valid criticism. Very rarely do you find something in the middle. Something something misery and company and all that
Most likely that. Assuming they want to find a way to prevent the boot manager from getting borked on updates for both sides of the fence. If they roll it out half-baked they’ll probably get flooded with tech tickets which would eat bandwidth for other issues. Basically preventing them from getting dragged down the support rabbit hole. In current state, if you muck up your install it’s on you to fix/troubleshoot.
For those that are more familiar with this process like you and me, it’s not a real hassle. But when you push out a new “feature”, they have to resolve for the lowest common denominator, which would consist of the more “casual” users. Bearing that in mind, you can probably see why they want to flesh it out a bit more.