So, my LE OLED Deck will be here sometime soon. I’ve figured out how to clone my SSD from my original Deck. However, once cloned, how do I put it in my new Deck? Don’t I have to go through the initial set up for my new Deck before I can restore my clone onto the new Deck? Thanks in advance.
You can. Someone on Twitter tested it already (I forgot who). The OLED can boot normally from the LCD drive but you need to download some updates after entering the system to make new hardware work properly.
Tbh I wouldn’t clone your LCD Steam Deck on to your OLED Steam Deck that screams like a bad time. The hardware is similar, but might be different enough that it causes your new steam deck to start boot looping. if you’re worried about losing your emulation stuff and EmuDeck has a transfer tool already. All your Steam games can be redownloaded locally if enabled and tons of games support cloudy saving. If you do decide to clone it anyway let us know how it goes.
I personally have Windows+SteamOS dual boot, and I don’t want to configure both systems, and soft linking folders to make libraries and configurations shared among Windows SteamOS and Wine prefixes, not to mention the EmuDeck… Cloning the disk / disk swapping won’t hurt so I’ll give a try anyway. If it bootloops I can just do a fresh install, otherwise I’ll save a LOT of time.
That’s just false information.
First of all, the exact same SteamOS image is deployed and installed on both the LED Deck and the OLED Deck. That image is immutable, so there’s no specific config for one model or another that gets generated at runtime. The only thing you must do is update your OS before cloning/transposing the drive.
Again, the exact same
rootfspartition images are present on both LED Deck and OLED Deck. The only thing that is different is the user partition (where you install your games and flatpaks).Cloning a drive is perfectly safe (verify that the clone has been successful).
Transposing a drive from an LED Deck to an OLED Deck is completely safe (make sure your OS is updated prior to transposing the drive).
I updated to 3.5 preview build (was all that was available at the time) before I sold my old steam deck last week. Will I be okay starting it up after the swap or had to be the current stable one that the OLED has?
If it is on a build before the 3.5 OLED update on preview (released on Nov 14th), no.
You’ll need a USB-C ethernet adapter to update after swapping as you won’t have the required kernel modules for the new Wifi chip.