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I dual boot SteamOS and Windows 10 IoT LTSC mostly because there are still some game developers that can't figure out how to enable anti-cheat for Linux.
And does Windows rewrite my boot sequence every time?
Sure, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
I don't like it but if you're that deathly afraid of penguins I suppose it's fine
that's hardware cruelty!
God says: hop rally embark fortify joy giraffe propose
God's messenger said A LOT of things I dare not repeat here.
A truly blessed Steam Deck, praise be to HolyC.
I....what...does Tongues -> God Doodle do??
I see, so this is what he saw in those visions.
That's glorious. Now I want more information.
You'll need a dock and keyboard if you want to accomplish anything. It took me two years to figure out how to get to that menu.
I used rufus to put windows on an sd card. The steam deck can boot from the card if you hold a volume button when you power on. Valve provides drivers for both lcd and oled. It’s worked perfectly since maybe a month after each model came out. It touches nothing. Rufus is the only trick, since microsoft is the uncooperative part.
I did it for modern warfare 2019. It wasn’t worth it. If you boot into windows every six months, you get to update for an hour. If you get logged out of steam, you should plug in a mouse and keyboard. It’s my only windows install since 8 came out which was my only attempt since 98. And it only convinces me to stay away.
This is perfect, this is what a steam deck is built for! Doing whatever the fuck you want with the hardware even if people don't like it
Finally, the steam deck plays the best game, the random word generator!
Is This a jab on ai?
No, it's a reference to the game in TempleOS that just generated a random series of words.
Terry Davis, the creator of TempleOS, believed God was speaking to him through it
You don't even need to "pirate" Windows anymore. You can download an ISO from Microsoft's website, install it, and when it asks for your license key, you click "I don't have one", and that's the end of it. If you look in the activation settings, it'll say "not activated", but nothing will ever become of it. This even works if you install it as Pro. It's not like the Windows XP/7 days where you'd get a 60 day scare timer. They just don't seem to care anymore, or maybe all that telemetry they siphon up from you is just that much more valuable.
The moment the installation finished you get bombed with ads and shit and they instantly earn more than the value of a couple windows 11 licenses.
PSA
If you see Windows 11 online DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT!!!
It will install a virus called Windows 11 and it will run Windows 11 on your PC!!!
You're right, they don't care.
The very fact they no longer care about enforcing licensing anymore is itself the strongest evidence that selling Windows as a product is not where the money is.
They want you on their operating system for any price - including zero -because once you are there that's when the advertising, cloud service upsell and data monetisisation can begin.
Even Windows 7 actually didn't care if you had no key.
You could leave it unactivated forever and the worst thing that would happen is it would have a "Activate windows" watermark message bottom right over the desktop, and it wouldn't let you change the personalization settings eg theming (oh no).
Never had to pay for a key anyway. I just hopped on eBay and looked for machines that were "for parts only" where the seller took a very nice picture of the bottom of the computer.
It was very nice of them to share that software with me once they were done using it.
I mean, if you just absolutely had to play a Linux-hating kernel anti cheat game, then install a small-as-possible partition for Windows, dual boot, and stay in Steam OS every single moment you're doing anything else but that game.
But most Windows-on-a-Steam-Deck people I've encountered just drive Windows all the time. I will never understand.
My only issue with it is that some people install windows the moment they get the SD out of the box. No interest in even trying SteamOS, they consider it just wasting time before they can get windows installed and have the Deck "ready to use".
I drive Windows mostly on my Deck but only because Marathon doesn't run on Proton (yet).
Otherwise I always ran SteamOS for Chivalry 2.
Be ashamed of using windows.
JOIN TEAM LINUX INSTEAD
Does linux even work on steamdeck? Has anybody tried?
Nah, Valve would never allow it
Guys! Relax, it's fine. We still have a VM for the Linux experience. It's basically the same thing!