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Yea, the deck is fine but so far I haven’t gotten the SSD to work anymore. When I put it into my PC it wouldn’t post and instead freeze on the bios screen. I’m now using my original 64GB eMMc storage that came with the deck, which is less than ideal but at least it works.
I updated a couple hours ago but when I tried to look for the new bios setting my deck didn’t boot up anymore. It seems my SSD was fried or something…I don’t know if the update had anything to do with it or if it was just a coincidence.
I’ve never seen it before until now, but you’re totally right. I’m going to start hating it too now.
I actually do most of my gaming on Linux. No problems thus far. I’ve only got Win11 on my PC to play VR.
While it’s already been talked about, for no. 4, does anyone know a good batch renamer I can use with Arch/Gnome?
On Windows I had BulkRenameUtility which was really good.
If you have any more questions don’t hesitate to write me a PM or otherwise reach out. I might be able to help. As for your free disk space I think you’ll have a hard time making it all work with just 130GB of free disk space. Not because EndeavourOS can’t work with 130GB but because as soon as you set the partitions it’s extremely hard to change your partition size for Windows and Linux because of the way these partitions sit on your physicial drive.
Your 4tb drive should be less of an issue. I don’t have a lot of knowledge as to how Linux works with NTFS but as far as I know Linux is way better at working with Windows file systems as Windows is with working with Linux file systems.
That depends on your desktop manager. I am using GNOME and I’m using its custom shortcut feature as well. If you’re also using GNOME you can just go into Settings -> Keyboard -> View and Customise Shortcuts -> Custom Shortcuts to add keyboard shortcuts. I added Shift+Win+S to take screenshots with Flameshot for example. But you can add pretty much anything there.
File sharing from Linux to Windows is extremely easy. Samba (Linux implementation of smb) is very easy to implement. From what I remember you just have to install samba and then add new network shares in /etc/samba/smb.conf.
In terms of disk space you’ll have to put some thought into if you really want to dual boot. If disk space is sparse it’s going to be tough. EndeavourOS is pretty lightweight but if you want to daily drive it it’s still going to take up a considerable amount of space. The biggest problem with one disk drive is usually creating partitions. With Windows already installed your UEFI partition is likely too small to contain both Win and Linux boot data. And when you install Linux as a new partition on your existing drive you will simultaneously hamper your ability to change the existing partition sizes. I would advise to get a new (even if small) SSD for Linux to get around any partition related problems.
I made the switch recently as well. I was really unsure of how the whole thing would turn out with me having used Windows for the last 20 years +, but man, it was way easier than I thought.
I went with EndeavourOS on my desktop and Pop!OS on my laptop (for easy igpu/dedicated gpu switching) and I haven’t missed Windows since. What’s the most difficult is learning the new keyboard shortcuts, but even those you could rebind in Linux. Because you can customize the OS to however YOU work best, instead of having to conform to whatever the OS thinks is best for you.
And man, package managers, am I right? How cool are they…I tried to use chocolatey and winget on Win11 but they never felt quite right, but pacman and yay? Absolutely glorious. I love typing yay into the terminal every couple of days and watching it go, keeping my system up to date.
Definitely Heroic Launcher. It will do everything you want for your gog, epic and amazon games. Cloud saves are still an experimental feature (afaik) though. Oh, and updating isn’t automatic. You’ll have to update by going into desktop mode, starting heroic launcher and update your game from there.
Obviously won’t happen, but it would be fun to have WoW’s game time imported into Steam and watch everybody’s game time go through the roof.
Awesome! I made the jump as well a couple of weeks ago. Struggled hard with the installation because I was being dumb during some parts. When everything worked I got this nagging feeling that I must have forgot something or done something wrong, which is why after I was done with everything, I installed EndeavourOS. Still an arch distro and I went through the installation, so I’ll just pretend I’m one of the gang.
I’d say you have the essentials already after getting your 2TB drive. With that kind of storage you won’t have to think about buying an SD card for a while (if ever). You might want to think about getting a case though. Preferably one with a kickstand. Mine also helped with the steam decks plastic shell being misaligned a bit leading to hard edges pressing into my palms. Other than that I’d say most of the (more) essential stuff is software related. Like getting decky loader and exploring its plugins.
That sounds great! Does it support the plugins as well?
A similar thing is happening to me as well. My calendar looks weird and some app folders have squished together app symbols.