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Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days agoOh yeah, apparently I updated W10 a few months ago accidentally (not even knowing the implications to this) and it wiped GRUB. The only way I’m able to boot into SteamOS now is to power the Deck from OFF into W10, shutdown, boot into BIOS, and select one of the EFI files. Not ideal, but it still works. That’s all I’m looking for for now, that my Steam Deck still functions.
One of the things that’s concerning me long term is that it seems like the Steam Deck can’t fully restart to do system updates. When it does, the Deck boots straight into W10, cancelling out any progress on the updates. There might be a way to fix this, but I’m not a tech guru! (Even though I’m an engineer).
Appreciate the protection recommendations btw. The more I live in a dual boot world, and the more games that release on Steam, the more I’m willing to completely scrap W10. I still enjoy the BFs tho, and Delta Force isn’t a good alternative. As my taste in games change, who knows.
Thanks for the help
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
No problem!
Yeah, dual booting Win and Lin is… basically a trap at this point, I first tried to do it over a decade now…
There really is no need anymore, beyond very specific uses cases, to run Windows at all.
Linux caught up and has now exceeded it in basically everyway, as Windows has also enshittified.
I would suggest you look into just switching your Deck over to Bazzite.
From a basic user stand point, it is highly functional and performant, gives you more flexibility and utilities than default SteamOS, and you can even set up a linux container as a dev environment to do linux dev stuff, use Bottles or something if you need something closer to a Windows environment.
Yeah, its still not gonna play those few, super hyped and marketed AAA games… but fuck em, they’re evil corpos, stop giving them your time and money.
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And I just made another suggestion to you in another comment:
You want BF style game(play)?
TitanFall 2. Still alive, still alive, got a reverse engineered server browser and private servers, runs great on linux via Proton.
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I’m starting to see how much of a trap it is!
I’m interested in multi booting different distros. Any guides on how to wipe my current deck and start over? I’ve heard Bazzite and PopOS are pretty slick, and I still want to keep SteamOS.
Yeah fuck corpos!!!
I saw that comment. I’ll look into it!
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Well, afaik, PopOS! does not have a … handheld PC oriented flavor, so… you could get it to work, but likely only via a dock, keyboard and mouse and monitor.
It may partially work, to some extent, as a handheld, but it won’t be able to… leave desktop mode, basically, unless you manually figure out how to set up everything you need for that game mode transition.
Bazzite on the other hand… comes with all that prebuilt in, is designed around that as a fundamental principle.
docs.bazzite.gg/General/FAQ/
docs.bazzite.gg/…/Installing_Bazzite_for_Steam_De…
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Thanks for the info