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Cake day: July 19th, 2023

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  • It’s not hard at all, if you’ve done any kind of tech disassembly before you should be good. Just make sure you don’t strip the screws (don’t use a screwdriver that’s too small, make sure it’s all the way in the screws before turning it).

    You will have to either clone the drive or install SteamOS fresh on the new SSD from a USB drive. They may have fixed it, but originally the SteamOS installation/recovery USB had a software bug that would crash the wifi driver if you connect to a 5GHz wifi 6 network. So if you have a WiFi 6 network, I would suggest only connecting to the 2.4Ghz version of it until you’ve completed setup and downloaded updates.

    If you clone the drive you don’t have to worry about that, but sometimes after cloning you have to realize the cloned partitions to actually take advantage of the larger drive.

    If you run into any of those issues and need help, feel free to reply to me here and I’ll do my best to help out.





  • My big two games recently have been Blue Prince (which I made a post raving about a week ago), and Clair Obscura: Expedition 33.

    Blue Prince is a fantastic puzzle game/rogue-likes mix, and as someone who enjoys both genres I’ve found their combination is fantastic. Really satisfying game for me, I didn’t close the game on my deck for about a week after first trying it. I’m not done with it yet either, lots more to discover.

    Clair Obscura Expedition 33 is a really flashy turn based JRPG made by a team of 30 people who quit Ubisoft because they wanted to make good games. It has incredible production values for such a small team and puts a lot of AAA games to shame. It pushes the deck performance wise, but I think it performs acceptably after tweaking some settings. I’d recommend people follow this guide for making it run it’s best, but the TL;DW is:

    The game hides some graphics settings on deck by default and uses a deck specific present. You can re-enable the settings by using the launch option SteamDeck=0 %command%, and customize it to your liking. Basically it’s TSR to low, shadow and post processing to low, film grain off, chromatica off, motion blur off, any other option to medium, FPS capped at 30.










  • It’s working, I know people who don’t even own a steam deck who are considering swapping to SteamOS once it’s available for desktops.

    I’ve told them they don’t need to wait and can get a similar or better experience with distros that are already available, but steam’s name is gold for a lot of people and it seems like the only option they’re really interested in.







  • You can use this tool to convert the deck.

    The only downside I know of is that if your SteamOS install becomes corrupted (though a bug or from you messing something up), the Steam OS recovery drives won’t be able to fix it without wiping all your internal data. In comparison, with the original ext4 there’s a recovery option to only repair steamOS and leave your data intact.

    This isn’t as bad as it sounds, you can still manually backup any of your important data before wiping and restoring the drive (you can access the BTRFS system from the recovery drive, and copy anything important onto a microSD or other storage device), but it’s definitely less convenient.