this post was submitted on 25 May 2025
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Steam Deck

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A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.

Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.

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Source is this video:

Windows Was The Problem All Along - Dave2D

We could obviously compare performance between windows and steamOS before on the steam deck, or between windows and Bazzite on other handhelds. But this is the first time we have had official windows and SteamOS builds for the same hardware.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Back in ~2010, my first dual boot was an Ubuntu. It was fairly easy to run WoW from Linux and it gave me a solid >15fps while Windows ran at less than 10fps.

I was very young at the time but still aware that this was super impressive with extra compatibility layers. That definitely took part in selling Linux to me.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I could barely get Minecraft to run 20fps on this old laptop I had given to me a few years ago. Loaded Ubuntu on it and Minecraft ran near 60fps. Blew my mind.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Pull the DE out and you could probably squeeze that performance out on a modded instance