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Windows on steam deck it's here

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on thursday valve released the drivers that we needed to run the operating

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system that they have spent years trying to make sure we won't need Linux users

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have literally begged us not to do this

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or at least not to recommend it but they forgot one simple fact

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i own this device it's mine so whatever

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i do what i want and besides even i

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your pc today we will talk about how we got to this point but i don't want to

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keep you guys waiting and i'm going to dive right in starting with desktop

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controls you can use either the right joystick or the right trackpad to move

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the mouse cursor around and i gotta say right out of the gate

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having this track pad here compared to something like the joy x off on the ineo

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wow is that ever a lot better but there's one thing i immediately notice

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missing push to tab

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how is that not a thing no instead and this is sort of intuitive

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you actually use the right trigger for left click and the left trigger for

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right click pretty much every other handheld i've seen defaults the other

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way around left is left right is right but it seems like valve is of the mind

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that the dominant hand should be the one that is the most often clicked

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okay how do i scroll down the page though it's probably left yeah there we go left analog stick

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oh okay we just brought up an on-screen keyboard by pushing down on the d-pad

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i'm gonna close steam for now we can use the touchscreen as well i guess that's

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worth mentioning oh wait no you need steam running in order to

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wait nope my mouse cursor's back

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the right joystick doesn't work for it anymore though only the trackpad does

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basically there's two control schemes there's the Windows default which allows

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you to use this as a trackpad and yeah it's still right to left and left to

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right or if you have steam launched it'll

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actually treat the entire controller as a seam controller and you can use the

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joystick to control the mouse as well now that i've got steam launched again

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let's try to launch an application

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okay is i've seen this on other handhelds as

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well for whatever reason uac prompts disable whatever software is allowing

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you to joystick to mouse on the steam deck though at least you

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can still use the okay i swear the touchpad worked a second ago now

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it's not working to be clear a lot of these annoyances are kind of

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universal whenever you're trying to use Windows on a handheld device it's just

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a very imperfect experience let's have a look at how this soc appears in CPU-z

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since we've got it AMD ryzen we don't know exactly what kind custom

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apu-045 super cool nope does not know

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that this is lpddr5 all right then how about gpuz

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same thing has no idea what to make of this mess GPU clock zero megahertz

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custom apu0405 fair enough GPU custom GPU 405. picks up

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the memory speed at least it doesn't seem to indicate in any way that this

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memory is shared between the GPU and CPU

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although it does note that 1.2 gigabytes of it is hardware reserved which would

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be what's reserved for our GPU wi-fi works bluetooth appears to be here

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actually i should fire up device manager clearly all the drivers are not uh

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working yet unknown devices

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multimedia controller multimedia controller would be the onboard audio so

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the three and a half millimeter jack and the speakers do not work so you can use

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bluetooth or you can use a type c to headphone adapter for now

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i think we should launch a game and of course we have a second steam deck

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i can already tell that this is running like absolute dog poo on Windows

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compared to Linux it's not even close it's not even just that the FPS is lower

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it's just a difference in responsiveness and like stutteriness

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super unresponsive it's funny while i

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was testing this with the haptics going i thought that the speaker was going for

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some reason yeah because the haptics are so weak the haptics are well there's no

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haptics it's just the vibration in the touch

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pads yeah so they've tuned that in Linux so it doesn't feel so like kind of cheap

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and ugly sounding but in Windows clearly that same tuning hasn't taken place well

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how about on Windows what does the steam button and the overlay button do

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big fat load of nothing i mean the steam button should pull up the steam overlay

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or something but oh oh it does it does it pulls up the

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steam overlay which does allow me to exit the game so it's just the quick

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access menu button that doesn't do anything okay that's that's that's good

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obviously it's a less comprehensive steam overlay let's try something else i

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have not played elven ring yet so far launch time looks pretty similar i

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started the Windows once lately before

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that's a solid Linux win right there that doesn't look right on the Windows

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side it really doesn't when i was testing it earlier the loading screens

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are only 16x9 so the actual background like the game assets loading in could be

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seen in the seams at the top and bottom of the screen oh hilarious let's try

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borderless windowed i've had better luck with that in some ca

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what hello weird

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oh oh hey hey we're back time to not mess with that again i'm loading up a

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new game here because we did all the benchmarking on this steam account where

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we're actually a little bit into the game but i wanted to be able to play

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them side by side with you guys so we got a new account for the Linux machine

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and we wanted to be able to just switch back and forth between them

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okay wow big picture has

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work to do i mean valve has said that they're going to adapt big picture

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based on the steam os steam deck interface like this oh man

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night and day so much better there it is you can see the seams oh

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that's weird this is a famously bad port

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Linux for the win for loading times again

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wow is Windows really that far behind oh shoot i didn't open frame view this is

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another thing that i'm not expecting to be a great experience on the steam deck

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other handhelds have a button to minimize the game and jump to the

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desktop i suspect valve has integrated no such

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functionality i mean i don't need frame view to tell me

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that's terrible i've read about hitches and stutters in

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this game but this is unbelievable

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valve apparently used the fact that they are translating

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directx to vulcan to implement a

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pre-shader compilation routine

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that prevents it from starting the crazy thing about Windows though is that this

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isn't even behaving like on-the-fly

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shader compiling like it should stop

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doing it it should after i do a full rotation but it doesn't and so the fact

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that we're running this translation layer actually results in better

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smoothness i think it's time for us to stop the side-by-side comparison and get

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into the empirical data then we ran benchmarks on three great on-deck

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games and Linux users can breathe a sigh of relief because steam os handily

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outperformed Windows particularly in hitman 3 where steam os gives playable

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if inconsistent frame rates while Windows averages a painful 19 FPS due

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maternal hit a 60 FPS average on steemos while Windows was stuck in the high 40s

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and eldon ring famously far more playable on deck than on Windows pulls

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ahead in terms of frame rate and as you guys saw didn't suffer from the same

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stuttering that the pc port has treated Windows gamers to our swackets don't

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suffer either by the way lttstore.com but what about controls

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outside of steam we already saw that launching steam takes over the deck's

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controller can we do the same in say an emulator uh

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what emulator should you put on here i just put on retroarch oh

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crap i don't have screen cap it did this in testing too for whatever reason

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retroarch what you're seeing on your screen is not what i'm seeing on this

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screen this screen shows the desktop oh beautiful

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oh my god come on retroarch i just

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i mean this could be a steam controller issue how do i go back if my controller's not

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allowing me to go back wait oh and this is off now wait what

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back instead of going back negatively toggles a setting and then

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confirm activates the setting that is the strangest behavior i think i've ever

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seen out of a controller ever is steam still running uh yes that might be

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the problem i don't even know if i'm going to be able to close this software

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there's no task manager button or control alt delete button like you would

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see on a Windows optimized handheld

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that's the kind of thing that you could probably bind i mean the steam

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controller is infinitely customizable it's one of the best things about it

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but Anthony i don't think i can close retroarch

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because i can't go back this is crazy x and y

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will sometimes go down our up and down multiple items in the menu and sometimes

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just one see here it does just one what is

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happening oh you activated the on-screen keyboard

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i did yes you can't see it but i can unless there's an escape key on that no

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i don't think president quit yes full disclosure i expected that to happen oh

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thanks Anthony well this is just as bad back doesn't go

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back how do i go back b is trying to close retroarch the

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default control scheme in Windows without steam running for the steam deck

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is that that key is escape so is that a valve issue or is that a Windows issue

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that would be a valve's controller mapping issue now normally that makes

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sense for navigating Windows because the up and down arrows are just the just

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like the yeah the d-pad is the up and down arrows left and right

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so you can navigate everything with the buttons pretty well we have an xbox

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controller here right because now b is

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back because it's picked up as a controller not as a Windows

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pointer device yeah so i think retroarch is going to

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have to add a controller definition file

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or something to hook into it like they do with the steam deck and with the xbox 360 controller and xbox one well will

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the game work the game should work okay let's try the game then at least

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what it doesn't work even in game it's still in oh man all right well i still

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want to know about the latency i mean i guess it'll be fine it's just

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Windows i mean it should be

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oh yeah i mean this feels great mostly i just wanted to show off the fact that

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the controls are hot garbage and broken yes got it so

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better use steam yeah pretty much oh no not charging

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chuck oh i want to get up there

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oh balls and there are a lot of other

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things to keep in mind if you want to run Windows on deck for one you're not

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able to dual boot steam os and Windows until valve releases the final steamos

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installer with support for this baked in i already mentioned there isn't an audio

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driver for the speakers or the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack yet but audio

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via usbc or bluetooth does work apparently a driver will be coming for

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that sooner rather than later what we don't have an eta for is things like the

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brightness slider fix okay it works fine sometimes and

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sometimes it doesn't respond to the full drag yeah so you need to kind of like drag it

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back and forth towards the end that you want to go to so if you want to get it brighter you need to go to max and drag

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it back and forth you want to go darker you need to i think if it goes slow it's

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fine so it might be an acceleration

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issue with the uh like the touch to mouse input detection or whatever i

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don't know the proper technical terms for it but it seems to be that if you go

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fast it doesn't make it the whole way which could be a touch screen

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responsiveness issue in Windows i i'm sure it's fixable but we don't know

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when or if that will ever be fixed and there's also the much larger problem

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where the deck doesn't like to come out of sleep in Windows either it takes

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forever or never wakes up so you'll want

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to disable sleep unless you're into hard powering off in

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order to get back into Windows but that's not a great experience for a handheld device

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what's more when you go to actually install Windows you're going to notice

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that the display is rotated 90 degrees that's actually pretty common for

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devices like this because they often use panels that were designed originally for

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tablets it just means that until you get to the Windows desktop you're going to

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have to deal with that you won't have any wi-fi so you'll have to install

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without a product key if you don't have a type c Ethernet dongle and speaking of

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you're probably going to want a type c to usb-a adapter or ideally a multi-port

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dongle like this one so that you can plug in a usb flash drive and a keyboard

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and mouse it can be done without but it's definitely not as seamless

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all of which raises the big question here

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why would anyone want to run Windows on

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the steam deck well i can think of a few reasons even ignoring familiarity with

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the interface and the apps access to xbox services comes to mind while

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alternative launchers and storefronts for epic game store and gog are

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available on Linux xbox still isn't and

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that means there are some games that you simply cannot play on steamos right now

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even ignoring anti-cheat problems and you're certainly not going to get access

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to game pass unless you're streaming from a Windows device or from

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microsoft's own servers i've also personally run into some very

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frustrating bugs while gaming on the deck i just completed a run-through of

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horizon zero dawn start to finish on my personal deck and i saw everything from

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drops down to 1 FPS for extended periods

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like i'm talking 10 30 seconds at a time

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to hard game crashes back to the steam interface to even black screens that

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necessitated a full system shutdown this

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raises serious questions for me about the thoroughness of valve's game

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verification program horizon zero dawn is a great on deck game but my

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experience was anything but great and i sincerely doubt

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that if sony had actually been involved in this certification process they would

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have signed off on it being advertised as great on deck in fact there's a great

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blog post on gaming on Linux from the lead developer of f audio which is a

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core component of proton the compatibility layer that allows Windows

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games to run on Linux criticizing valve's collaboration or lack thereof

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with third-party developers so if valve is just yellowing it what's the process

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there are only so many hours in a day and valve seems to be validating a lot

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of freaking games based on my experience with horizon zero dawn what i suspect

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they're doing is they're just firing up the game playing early areas which in

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many games tend not to be as demanding and going yep seems good

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rubber stamp and i actually didn't have any issues in the first five hours of my

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playthrough of horizon zero dawn but by the end i was getting crashing or

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stuttering about every 30 minutes or so not a great experience

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other than that though steamos is objectively the

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much more polished experience the quick access menu with its convenient

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diagnostics and controls is conspicuously absent from Windows and

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even basic functionality like charging still seems to have issues in Windows we

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actually observed our steam deck discharging while plugged in which is

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something that i have never seen running steam os

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so valve is allowing users to run Windows

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even facilitating it by providing drivers and public help dogs good guy

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valve 100 and we're going to have those linked down below if you want to do it

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yourself but the roughness of the experience does

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make me wonder are they ever going to put in the effort that it would take to

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make it as smooth as steam os

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my gut feeling is no which makes me wonder how much of the performance

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difference we saw is down to a lack of optimization i mean theoretically the

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same hardware should perform very similarly across Windows and Linux and

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this our results were not even close now

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admittedly that could be as much AMD's fault as valves and the steam deck also

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features a very unusual architecture for a Windows machine with the CPU and GPU

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course sharing common memory i'm sure steamos on the other hand was carefully

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tuned to account for this i just feel like there was a lot of Windows

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performance left on the table here and our investigation today has left us with

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more questions than answers the one answer we have right now though is that

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we wouldn't recommend Windows on the steam deck at least not in its current

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state so if your must-have games don't work in steam os you might just have to

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pony up for a competing handheld that is at least until valve makes dual booting

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possible which is something we're planning to explore along with a 2

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terabyte internal storage upgrade to the deck so make sure you are subscribed for

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switch on pretty much every steam deck video that we have what's project kill

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switch well it's a project to kill the switch i think basically it's similar to

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their grip cases for phones and other devices but for your steam deck it's got

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a rugged rubberized finish plus a kickstand for when you're gaming on the

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go but you want to pull out a controller they've also got their tempered glass

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regular tempered glass inhibits touch sensitivity but dbrand screen protectors

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down below thanks for watching guys go check out our initial review of the

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steam deck for more decky goodness it still blows my mind they managed to ship these

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things especially for this price