STEAMos or WINDOWS? What to do 

Thanks so much! Thats my plan thanks for supporting

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There's like a curve, of people who don't really wanna mess with their deck that much and just use what Steam lets them do will stay on SteamOS and probably never even touch desktop mode, than a little higher on the curve there's people that realize Windows will unlock a lot of the more standard PC things that the steam side of steamOS can't do, but then even further you go you realize steamOS is actually just Linux, with an endless amount of customization, but almost too much depending on what you want.

@@SP1CEANDW0LFthan there's fourth point on the curve of people who understand that if they make any changes beyond configuration, all those changes will be lost in the next major update

@@SP1CEANDW0LF and oh believe me, I want to mess with my deck. I'm the kind of guy that spent 90 hours customizing i3wm and rofi to look just right. And then there's neovim where I spent more than 100 hours reading the fking manual and making it behave just like I wanted it to.

@@tigrankhachaturian8983 i3wm :skull: Atleast use DWM and not that mess.

@@pecuniary xorg/wayland is for the weak. Let's go back to the stone age and use linux without gui!

May you should try the linux space first, it's awesome 👌, and you can always use a dual boot, and keep both systems on one ^^

Amen 🙏

stock o.s. has remote gaming

Teach me how you do this

Yessss thanks so much!!! I love this comment

Dude thanks! Maybe I should make one 🤙

@@CyberDopamine please!

laughing out loud. you made all that drivel up. valve has no idea how many people installed windows on their deck, once you wipe the operating system off it, they have no idea what you've done with it. keep making up more BS to tell us, i'm sure we'd love to hear it.

See recent video to install windows and the drivers. And for the buttons, boot into games using steam, and it will automatically give you controls appropriate for the game you want to play

Check out my recent video. I show how to flash windows on micro sd. Super super easy

Heck yeah it’s so fun

I’d actually recommend dual booting if you can

Windows kills more battery. Thanks so much!

SteamOS in use with proton consumes 5% more battery as it's translating dx9-dx12 to Vulkan. But windows is bloated in every way so, even in windows the battery performance in the end I think it doesn't even matter.

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I don’t really use gamepassc but I’d assume it works for probably any game

Thank you for your opinion. I am still thinking of this. It’s not officially sold in Malaysia but now that it’s available in Japan some of the other apac countries it’s much cheaper to get one here. I am planning to get the 64gb version , changing the ssd and using only windows 11 on it

@@ashwin988 Changing the ssd is a W option, but you can use Dual Boot on it, or even Windows to Go, I though I wouldn't like SteamOS too much but I'm absolutely loving it :D Said that, it's your decision what matters, cheers!

Stoked for you! Got the best of both worlds

Thats the hard part about windows on the steamdeck and windows in general. What crash are you getting?

Wait. What do you mean by this?

Yeah download handheld conpanion

Companion *. Peace of cake to setup and is 1 step 0 issues

It does worsen the battery life if you install windows but I don’t think it’s much of a game changer. If you’re wanting to focus on battery life, use steam os. But if you want to play games that aren’t compatible with Steam OS then to me, it’s worth sacrificing a little bit of battery to play the games that I really want to play

AC Valhalla: 2h 10min (Windows), 2h 25min (steamos)

@@CyberDopamine It does improve the battery a little from the tests, this may be, probably because SteamOS uses Proton, which consumes a bit more than native on windows (I suppose) even tho is not worth to go to windows only for the battery. Cause is like a 5% improvement (5-10% I guess from the tests)

it decreases but they found a fix thats patched thru windows 10 and 11

Watchu mean

Call me crazy but I think my windows install made my battery better. And frame rate limiting works

@@CyberDopamine of course it did, windows isnt emulating all the games on a wine/proton layer lol. emulating windows uses more power.

Yaaaaaaaa! Let’s gooooooo

Ld player works good

Thank you! Welcome to the steamdeck nation!!

Yeah I have a video on it

What about games with anti cheat like mw?

@STEAMDECK NATION i don't play mw but there are other games that were unsupported in my list such as dragon ball fighterZ because od the anti cheat software. And it works with proton GE.

Yeah you totally can but there’s other compatibility issues to worry about as well

What's with the flatpak version lol

I’m about to swing it and maybe make a video. Have you?

@Fluffymonster_ I streamed geforce on a laptop, and it was impressive, but you need good internet. I dont get my deck until friday, so I haven't tried it yet. That would possibly be another workaround for unsupported games.

@Fluffymonster_ My steam deck was delivered today, but my neighbors camera caught the delivery driver stealing the deck and dilivering an empty box.

@@goosinator6066 dude are you serious?

@Fluffymonster_ Yeah, I have to wait for both Fedex and Valve to do an investigation, but I have it on camera that I received an empty box.

I had bugs in windows 11. Switched to windows 10, and there are zero issues. It’s pretty crazy actually

@@CyberDopamine Since you're on 10 now, how are touch controls, keyboard and controller working? Also have you tried switch emulation or any other by chance? How does it stack compared to SteamOS

You don’t have to do it. I just used the key I had from an old laptop

If you have windows on another device, log into your Microsoft account and then login to Microsoft account on steamdeck and maybe the key will transfer

@@CyberDopamine how can I get rid of the blue print that’s on the screen saying activate windows key on the steam screen ? Even when I play mw2.0 it shows the blue print saying to activate windows.

Yeah you can

@@CyberDopamine how ? It uses more power ? Leave the game open ?

Yes it works. And it works fairly well. I had to do some tweaking. Like my SD card will sometimes disconnect somehow when I leave it overnight then I do in fact, have to reset it, but other than that it does the job nothing as well as steam os though

Dude it's not a console, it's a hole pc, based on linux, you can run nearly anything what you can run with windows on linux, but you have to switch to the desktop mode, and may have to follow some tutorials made for linux or/and steamos ;)

@@hero_jonashdjp9562 okay. Run CoD or battlefield, run parsec being the host. Run some VPN apps, oculus app, run games with mods, run beammp launcher, run GTA RP launcher. Dude, yes, basically it's a PC, yes it runs Linux like a PC can run and uses steam as a game library, which is a PC games library. The only thing is that a PC can use any PC library, let's say, battle net launcher, which u can use of course, but u won't run heroes of the storm, it won't work, and overwatch let's say, will be lagging as hell, because of missing shader pre-cache, which steam games are downloading for each game it can run on steam library. This thing pretends to be a PC like having a keyboard and mouse support, and even a desktop mode which like pretty much PC, but you are still unable to do sooo many things under Linux, and the only best option is PC library with deck verified and playable games (yes, I know that sometimes even an unsupported game will run too) that it makes you feel it like a console experience. Under Linux, it's a console experience, that wants to look like a hybrid of a console and a desktop, but still has too many restrictions to call itself a PC.

​@@mikhailpadin3829 Yep this is mostly true. But you cant compare a Linux-environment with a console. Linux is a giant tool witch can run everything of your imagination, its just ends by the borders of proprietary software. You can install everything on the Steamdeck what you could install on other linux distros. I dont have a steamdeck, punch me idk. But i run all my devices with Linux even hardware witch is meant to run window Proprietary. for example my Surface Go (2018) 4gb-ram 64gb storage + 512gb SD. I run all my games on my 14inch Zenbook duo without dedicated graphics. The hardware of my zenbook is very comparable to the steamdeck: 16gb ram with i7 1165G7. U see Linux is my dailydrivesystem. I only boot back into windows for Vr (witch maybe change sometimes) and if i want to play with friends one ore two round Valorant. I even use the Unrealengine under Linux. I even tried steamOs one one of my gaming rigs. And i have to say it was awesome :], but the steam-UI just broke. I can still use the linux desktop and run all games there, but you get the point it was not ready, maybe i can fix it sometime. You right about these games you count except Overwatch. I played it, it runs great :] About FiveM, i googled around a bit, and yes it seems that it will never run due to injectionmethoed witch is not supported with the dxvk wine implementation under linux. Other games with direct modding support just works out of the box with mods, for example Company of heroes 2, Especially Minecraft. But most of the other games just works fine even if the ProtonDB status says unkown or unsupported. I even play the games of my EpicGames Library thanks to the HeroicGamesLauncher witch is better than the original EpicGamesLauncher on Windows, just saying. A "Console" would never be able to do such things, or would allow you to download games or software from the competition. About the anti-cheat debate i can just blame the game devs/studios. Battle-eye and Easy-Anti-cheat both support linux with a flip of a switch. And Kernel-Anticheats are the hugest backdoors into your system. Gensin-Impacts-kernelanticheat is one example for an Kernelanticheat witch was abused (by intruders). There is nothing good about having another blackbox biting itself inside your blackboxedkernel.

@@mikhailpadin3829 sorry if my english is not that good xD

I know. But I’m talking about the steamdecks Linux with gaming

@@CyberDopamine fair enough, but the fact remains that it's the game developer's responsibility to get anticheat working on linux, not any inherent flaw with linux that prevents it from running these games. In fact 90% of them work perfectly via proton in bot matches.

@@accountid9681 still, the fact is: it's not letting you play and there's no workaround about it. It kinda makes steam os an iOS, even tho Linux is even more opened system than windows.

@@mikhailpadin3829 Linux lets you play any game you want, even with anti cheat. The responsibility to get games working falls entirely on the game developers. It's like complaining to apple that you can't install an EXE on Mac.

@@accountid9681 run cod lol. Don't think I'm stupid, I know that technically it can run call of duty and run it well, the point was that u are unable to do it practically. What's the point of being able to run the game, have enough horse power, but still being unable to play it?) Also, some AC run this stupid kernel system, which will never run thru proton, if you know what kernel is, u know it won't. Yes, it's just like blaming that Mac cannot run exe, that is actually the point, but while Mac gives you alternatives, Linux does not. There are lots of apps that are being compiled for both win and Mac, or there are Mac alternatives to win apps, while Linux don't have both of it: in terms of both games and apps. Find me an app for direct streaming your monitor to quest 2. Don't even try, Ive been trying - there s no such app. Even wirelessly - parsec doesn't support Linux as a host PC. That's what I'm talking about