I guess it's nice of them to release the drivers but that still won't make it a good experience. They should have designed the deck to use full length nvme so you could get bigger drive sizes and not feel like a dual boot leaves no room for games. Not that I would do this or recomend it, yuck.
I use a 2TB Kingston SSD through the USB-C port. All the Steam Deck stuff stays on the internal drive, Windows 11 on the Kingston.
https://www.kingston.com/en/ssd/xs2000-portable-usb-c-solid-state-drive
There are also docks that support NVMe:
https://jsaux.com/products/m-2-docking-station-for-steam-deck-hb0604
Is that faster than loading it on a microsd card? That's how I currently boot windows on my steamdeck, but it's a little slow to load and initial loads for some games can be painful.
Yeah, the MicroSD slot is around 100mb/s:
https://www.polygon.com/deals/22938610/steam-deck-best-sd-card-micro-storage-price-speed
USB-C is anywhere from 5 Gbps to 20 Gbps. Not sure what standard the Deck supports, but even the slowest is 625 to 2500 mb/s.
Thanks, I'll have to take a look into that, I can definitely tell the microsd struggles (and it would free up my microsd slot for extra steamos storage).
That kinda makes it not very portable. However, it's true that you can get short high capacity drives. They're just a bit harder to find.
Anecdotally: I worked from home today, my primary laptop is Linux mint. Helldivers 2 wouldn't start, seems an update broke the settings I had. I tried a couple generic fixes through terminal and started getting huffy because everything would be easier if I just used windows. Non of this would be happening if I just took the blue pill...about 30 minutes in I turned off steam sync for saved games and suddenly it all worked again.
Moral of the story: sometimes Linux isn't this complicated beast, and it's as simple as something that even windows would have a problem with. It's only difficult until you figure out the problem. Windows is a necessary evil some of the time but never all of the time.
Just keep swimming. You'll figure it out. Not trying is being lazy and complacent.
Also though, you have to consider not all gamers are tech savvy, and your "generic fixes" through terminal would immediately make some of them have a quit moment.
I think Linux users forget the amount of base knowledge that they had to learn in order to simply use their software proficiently sometimes.
I'm a systems engineer, I do sometimes forget common knowledge isn't everyone's knowledge with IT stuff.
I for one welcome the ability to:
You may now begin the downvotes. (Even if you're wrong I respect your opinions)
play flash games,
I don't think there's currently any supported software running flash files that's Windows exclusive, is there? Adobe ended support and the most mature solution is ruffle, which is open source and runs on Linux as well.
Games without launchers or not on steam
??? When has this not been possible?
Why would you hate yourself that much?
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