Quoting: NerdNoiseRadioBased on what I see in Steam Deck groups on social media, I would have no trouble believing that it could be as many as 40% of Steam Decks have Redmondsoft on them.

The Steam hardware survey seem to contradict that theory. Thing is, my experience is that the Windows fanboys in the facebook groups I follow are really vocal, but few are actually doing the move and many regret it aftward. It feels more like a vocal minority, imo, but I do not have any proof of that either.

Windows is just unfit for the task. Too much heat, drains the battery much faster and there is a lot more fan noise. On top of that, a desktop OS on a handheld... It's awkward, at best. SteamOS is a big part of it's best aspects. Users love it. Removing it makes the SteamDeck another boring PC... Or "How to transform a handheld into a laptop".

Edit: Not saying you are wrong, there might be a lot of dualbooting though, from what I read: "Xbox gamepass, Destiny 2, COD Warzone..." but since SteamOS doesn't support that, it's not a trek for the faint of hearts... Non techy users might not be really enticed by that solution.

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Quoting: constI wouldn't put witcher3 or gta on that :D

Oups! Currently, I'm running Rise of the Tomb Raider, Bioshock Infinite, The Outer Worlds and Resident Evil Village on my MicroSD Sandisk Pro... The loading times are a little longer, but for my part, it's not a deal breaker... It runs great... Am I doing a mistake? :wink:

Neh. I put guardians of the galaxy on it. It's a bit slower in terms of load times but other then that, no issues. And you can always move the games back to the ssd.

That's absolutely true.
Moving big games from internal to sd when I don't feel like playing them for a while and back to internal on demand is really comfy. And chances are you won't feel any difference, anyway. I specifically named GTA and witcher3 since those are the only two games so far where I think the experience was a little improved from internal, though I can't back up that claim :D

It's not really an issue, imo. To each your own.

Personnally, I really do like my 512gb model (coupled with a 400gb sd) and don't regret it at all, but if I had to choose again, I'd probably pick the 256gb model with a 1tb SD. I would pick the 64gb model, but I'm not sure if it's enough to handle all the texture cache data that seems to be downloaded on the internal storage, no matter what. If you install lots of AAA titles... hish!

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Excellent! I'm starting to put money in my Steam wallet for the next Steam Deck, right now! :wink:

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Quoting: constI wouldn't put witcher3 or gta on that :D

Oups! Currently, I'm running Rise of the Tomb Raider, Bioshock Infinite, The Outer Worlds and Resident Evil Village on my MicroSD Sandisk Pro... The loading times are a little longer, but for my part, it's not a deal breaker... It runs great... Am I doing a mistake? :wink:

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Quoting: TodCWeird that they claim Q4 emails are going out, while mine says expected Q3 and I haven't gotten one. Maybe the cheaper ones are more readily available?

Yep! It's exactly this. The 512gb model is a lot longer to get than any other.

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Good job Valve! Let's make the Linux market share higher than ever! :smile:

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Probably the bot made this decisions based on "The fear of the unknown"! :grin:

Ridiculous!

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Quoting: MohandevirThis device is just fabulous. It's been over a month since I got it and my desktop has been collecting dust ever since. I don't feel I'll get tired of it, anytime soon. Completed HZD on SD. Rediscovered Blaze Rush which I resumed and finished. Just started new Tomb Raider, Grid (2019) and Witcher 3 runs... Lots of emulation too (never did that much emulation, even with my Rpi). The form factor is just a perfect match, for me. I'm not tied to my desk anymore (which I started to dislike, after long work hours) and not limited by the availability of my living room. Whenever I want, wherever I want, Whatever I want. On top of that SteamOS is so comfy to use... Wow!

Happy to hear that those that didn't get it yet will get it even faster. Thanks Valve!

Just I recived the email yesterday.
Hope I'll find as useful as you. I have bad experience with the n switch, as I have "big hands".
But the deck it's much more versatile.

I can't say if it will be big enough (all hands are not the same), but it's similar to holding my Steam Controller... With a screen in the middle. It's bigger and a lot more comfortable than my son's Switch Lite, for sure!

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This device is just fabulous. It's been over a month since I got it and my desktop has been collecting dust ever since. I don't feel I'll get tired of it, anytime soon. Completed HZD on SD. Rediscovered Blaze Rush which I resumed and finished. Just started new Tomb Raider, Grid (2019) and Witcher 3 runs... Lots of emulation too (never did that much emulation, even with my Rpi). The form factor is just a perfect match, for me. I'm not tied to my desk anymore (which I started to dislike, after long work hours) and not limited by the availability of my living room. Whenever I want, wherever I want, Whatever I want. On top of that SteamOS is so comfy to use... Wow!

Happy to hear that those that didn't get it yet will get it even faster. Thanks Valve!

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Quoting: a0kami...maybe this gonna be the killer app.

Saw what you did! :grin:

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