I have a question about windows on steamdeck. I’m thinking of installing it on my deck, but I can’t decide. I’ve read quite a few articles, videos on YouTube too. Everything is ambiguous for me, but maybe someone can tell me whether it’s worth changing the system?

  • on-underline@alien.topOPBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I understand that this question may have been asked here a hundred times, but I would be grateful to anyone who was not too lazy to express their opinion again.

  • Yahiroz@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Depends if you have a reason to install Windows. If you’re mostly playing games, especially from Steam, you’re fine with SteamOS. If there’s some games you do play that don’t work under SteamOS (eg developer refusing to get their anti cheat Linux compatible, game pass, etc.) then go ahead with Windows. Personally I dual boot both OSes, Windows is only used for those anti cheat games but I much prefer SteamOS for everything else as it feels more comfortable to use on the Deck.

  • Facehugger_35@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I personally didn’t find it worthwhile enough to keep when I did it. The user experience was just worse in every way.

    But I don’t play many multiplayer shooters or use gamepass.

    r/WindowsOnDeck will probably give you a more nuanced answer to this question.

  • dankj@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I split my 1tb ssd into 2 partitions, 700gb for steam os, and 300gb for windows. I almost exclusively use steam os, but i like having COD installed on windows for the rare occasion I wanna play some warzone with the boys.