From what I understand, Last Epoch has an online and offline mode. If you're playing in online mode, and you put your deck to sleep, what happens when you wake up the Deck?
Some online games just have a brief reconnecting delay, but other games (like Diablo 4 at launch) will completely kick you out or make you restart the game completely.
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.
Seems like the UE5 games can't get steady framerates on most hardware, but I know what you mean.
I'm definitely looking forward to steam deck 2, but I do appreciate that Valve isn't pushing out a new one each year with slightly improved specs. And now that the nintendo switch 2 has about the same power as the steam deck, maybe we'll see UE5 and some other engines actually try to run well at that performance level.
I just give them to friends who don't use linux yet.
Having looked that up, I'm curious how you hold your deck with only one hand.
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.
I'm playing Clair Obscura and it's running acceptably well by my standards.
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. I've been following this video's settings and have been pretty happy with the results. 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 cap to 30.
Distrobox is also a good option for installing stuff without flatpak.
Yeah, I had mostly stayed away from arch based distros after having a really bad time with Manjaro. But hearing the Steam Deck's version of SteamOS was switching to an Arch base got me to try Endeavour on my desktop, and I've been using it ever since.
https://github.com/ryanrudolfoba/SteamOS-Waydroid-Installer
Not disagreeing with your point, but at least for waydroid there's a specific SteamOS installer available.
As some others have said, the problem is probably that windows still has the drive locked. When windows "shuts down", it actually is only closing your programs and going into hibernation. This leaves the drive in a read only state, which will prevent you from being able to resize the partition.
To do a full shutdown, you can hold shift while pressing the shutdown button on the start menu. Alternatively run shutdown /s /f /t 0 in a administrative command prompt.
Here's a link to the game's store page
And here's a link to their X post with the animated Steam Deck art.
Some of the Yakuza games seem to benefit a lot from a TDP limit. Seems like you can restrict the power usage quite a bit without any decrease in performance.