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Turning a Switch into a Steam Deck / Linux Mini PC



Nintendo does not approve of, and is not associated with, this project. Running Steam / Native Linux programs on a switch.

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00:00 Intro
00:15 Nintendo doesn’t endorse this
00:52 What distro and why?
01:14 What’s included?
02:35 Sleep mode works (surprisingly)
03:36 Installing updates (but not all of them)
04:35 Trying (open source) gaming
05:48 Trying Minecraft: 1st attempt
06:16 What about Steam?
08:13 Trying Minecraft: 2nd attempt
09:19 Other steam games, and GPU issues
10:26 Using as a docked, ARM, Mini PC
13:06 Outro

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13 Comments

  1. Honestly installing Linux on the Switch seems like a hassle that doesn't really pay off, I think to really make the most of your Switch, the best thing to do would be to run Moonlight in either atmosphere or android. The latency is ridiculously low, almost Wii U gamepad-like, and it means that I can essentially use my PC around the house or on the TV without having to physically move the actual PC. (Fortnite in 60fps RTX, Roblox and Netflix on Switch goes crazy)

  2. the java edition of minecraft makes you feel the cpu lag while bedrock doesnt. if the internal server on bedrock gets laggy because of the cpu being too slow it usually can go unnoticed but in some cases it locks up completely and thats when you have an opportunity to take a clip of your game and call it "bugrock" or "the worse verion of minecraft" online when in reality those clips are almost all from minecraft bedrock on xbox one which we all know is a slow console form 2013 with a mid slow cpu from 2013 that just happens to still be supported for updates. minecraft bedrock when not on crap hardware like consoles from 10 years ago or an android tablet from 2017, it runs very nice. i have always like bedrock and java edition now just feels weird to me with its worse default lighting, stutters, lack of animations, ugly menus and lag. bedrock just feels stable while java feels like you are fighting with the game. thank you for triggering this i needed to complain about people complaining about bedrock edition. 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

  3. I run Ubuntu L4T on my Switch to have a Linux ARM PC for fun but I frankly would not use it as a daily driver. Single core performance felt sluggish even CPU running at maximum clocks. I suspect the I/O latency could be due to the high endurance MicroSD card I am running could be a factor. It was a run experiment. I was trying to use Linux to run PS2/GC games but oh well.

  4. I was watching this (not on YouTube) and decided to give it a like comment. So I opened YouTube and looked you up. 4 things with way worse views than you appeared first, YouTube's so broken.😂

    Anyway, cool video

  5. 300€ for a switch is also expensive. It's the exact same price as a refurbished LCD Deck with 64GB's of internal storage and you don't need to worry about your device being banned or even the games you yourself bought becoming unplayable and you can do whatever you want with it (like installing another OS onto it or installing non-steam games) and play with whatever method of controls you want to.

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