Recently had a question about a game running on the deck, and actually got me thinking since steamos settings were briefly discussed: what are the settings to change for a steam deck, or tools to add? I do not mean more fps or more performance per say only, but more battery life or just better tools for certain aspects of the deck.

    • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzMEnglish
      3·
      9 hours ago

      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.

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
      4·
      13 hours ago

      There’s an easy tool to do that. The beauty of ext4 is that it can be converted to BTRFS without any data loss.

      Can’t remember what the tool is called and by now I don’t use SteamOS any more. But a search engine of your choice should find it.