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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.

As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
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[Meta] - Discussion about this community.

Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
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[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.

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Source is this video:

Windows Was The Problem All Along - Dave2D

We could obviously compare performance between windows and steamOS before on the steam deck, or between windows and Bazzite on other handhelds. But this is the first time we have had official windows and SteamOS builds for the same hardware.

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Best would be optimized Windows

What is "optimized Windows"? Windows is Windows. There's no gaming-focused version.

gaming only distro

There's no such thing, to my knowledge.

base windows vs base distro

What is a "base distro"?

[–] MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What is "optimized Windows"? Windows is Windows. There's no gaming-focused version.

Removing / disabling useless services, tweaking registry…

There's no such thing, to my knowledge.

SteamOS sure looks like one. Gaming focused if you prefer. I’ve seen a couple on Linux, though I don’t remember their name rn.

What is a "base distro"?

Something like Ubuntu or Mint, which would be more comparable to a desktop experience like windows, ready for productivity

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Removing / disabling useless services, tweaking registry…

That's the opposite of comparable since none of that was done on Steam OS.

I’ve seen a couple on Linux, though I don’t remember their name rn.

"Gaming Focused" distros aren't anything special outside of having some pre-installed software.

Something like Ubuntu or Mint, which would be more comparable to a desktop experience like windows, ready for productivity

SteamOS has all of those same productivity tools but I'm not sure how that's relevant to performance.