buffaloseven

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I Hotswap A Steam Deck SSD Into the Steam Machine?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the advice, everyone! I’m using rsync to back up my home directory on the Deck right now, and I’ve migrated a lot of my smaller games I’ll want to have access to on both the Machine and Deck to a 256 GB microSD I had lying around (including my RetroDeck setup). I’ve also flashed the SteamOS installer onto a thumb drive.

  I think I’ll plan to just try putting the Deck SSD into the Steam Machine and see if it boots up and runs properly or not. If it looks like there’s any issues, I’ll just reinstall SteamOS on it and restore some of the files I’ll want to from the backup external drive.

  Then I’ll do the same with the SM SSD in the SD, reinstall if anything’s funky, and then copy files from the backup onto it again (though most of those will be mods and such for larger games that’ll just live on the Steam Machine now, so it should be light work).

  Just need to make sure to have a list of my Decky plugins in case I need to wipe things and make a list of the Flatpaks I’ve installed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I Hotswap A Steam Deck SSD Into the Steam Machine?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, haha yes, you’re right. I meant swap. Obviously power everything down.

• Can I Hotswap A Steam Deck SSD Into the Steam Machine?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck or Machine? - July 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just finishing up Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade on my Deck; it’s been a blast. Once I wrap that up I’m probably going to tackle Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. On the side, I kind of constantly have Fallout 4 and Automobilista 2 going.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My steam machine arrived!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Beauty! I got my purchase e-mail for 512+Controller today, hopefully it’ll be here by the end of next week! I put a 1 TB SSD into my Steam Deck that I’m going to back up, format for the Steam Machine, and then swap the SM & SD drives so my SM is a 1 TB and my Deck is a 512. A bit of work but I’m looking forward to the end result!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even more AMD ray tracing performance improvements heading to Mesa on Linux⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is fantastic. I’m not some Linux fanboy, but I am increasingly disillusioned that Microsoft cares to make Windows good in any meaningful way. Vulkan seems to be a far more efficient low-level graphics API compared to DirectX these days, and what’s been coming out of Valve seems to support that idea: a lot of performance issues on Linux are solvable problems.

  I’m writing this from my Steam Deck which has become a more than capable general use PC even on its limited hardware. I was planning on getting a Steam Machine, and this ongoing work Valve is doing only makes me more confident in using that cute little box as a full jump away from the Microsoft stack. I recognize that’s not a viable option for everyone out there, but I’m excited to try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Deck] A Linux Power User Puts SteamOS To Work⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great article. I’ve used my Steam Deck as a very capable desktop PC. I do about 85% of my work on an iPad I take around with me, but whenever I bump into more friction than I’d like with it, I just pop over to Desktop mode on my Steam Deck.

  Flatpaks seem the future for Linux as they simply abstract away the dependency hell that can get less knowledgeable users in big trouble. Having used macOS/OS X for many years, user agents as an alternative to system daemons are familiar to me, but I didn’t realize that SteamOS supported them; good to know!

  I think that immutable operating systems are going to become more and more popular purely for the various security benefits that can come with them. Hopefully we continue to see the tools adapt to let us do more and more in user-space so we can get the benefits with few drawbacks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keyboard and mouse suggestions⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Really, just get whatever peripherals you like. Don’t expect to be able to do a lot of extra doodads since you won’t be running any extra software to enable advanced features, so just get something you like that’s comfortable.

  I use the same keyboard and mouse I use with my primary computer: a Nuphy Air75 v2 keyboard and MX Master mouse.