The Official Steam Deck Thread

[farlaff]

OdinHades said:

farlaff said:

Did you install any other OS on your Deck or just went full Linux for your regular day to day activities?

I worked with Linux at first and seemingly all was fine. But then one customer complained that he got a corrupt file. Something with Libre Office didn't quite work and even with the online version of MS Office it wouldn't work. 

I just made the file on my PC but I also installed Windows to go on an external HDD. I didn't want to mess up the bootloader and all that stuff. Windows 11 runs perfectly fine, but it's slow as fuck coming from an HDD. So I'll get an external SSD next month and that should do the trick. While Linux is perfectly fine for me most of the time (I've been using Debian for 20 years now) sometimes there is stuff that just won't run that well, so it's great to have Windows as a fallback option.

But to answer your question: for day to day activities, I definitely prefer Linux. 

Thanks! That's interesting indeed.