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SteamOS is a standalone operating system developed by Valve, and is based on Arch Linux

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I'm getting the "mmc0: card never left busy state" for an SD card that Windows happily recognises and formats. What can I do to make it work on Linux?

I went and bought a steam deck, and decided to get an SD card for it - a Hunyeiz thing from a Kodak shop. After a messy time accidentally formatting it poorly, hastily typing console commands given to ...
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Where is the windows store located in Windows 10?

Im trying to move the windows store to a linux system to run it using wine. Is this even possible? If so, where is the windows store located, and what are other necesarry files i need to transfer? I ...
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Steam Deck Japanese Full-Width Input In-Game

My issue is that I cannot input full-width Japanese hiragana or katakana in my Japanese steam game on Steam Deck (stable OS, 3.4.8). When I use the Japanese keyboard for the game currently, the error ...
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microSD card jumps to read-only on one specific computer when using one specific program

I'm just gonna explain this situation, and I'd love to know what's going on, how to fix it, and ideally I hope this brand new microSD card isn't dead or something. If I: plug it into my Linux desktop ...
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How do I add a non-Steam game from an SD Card in SteamOS?

I have an .exe file saved to my Micro SD card that I want to play in in SteamOS. Normally in desktop mode I can access my SD Card under "removable devices", but when I use Steam's "Add ...
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How do I take a screenshot in SteamOS's Desktop Mode?

I want to take a screenshot of my Steam Deck's desktop in SteamOS 3.3.1. Normally I can take a screenshot by pressing Steam + R1, but this shortcut doesn't work in Desktop Mode. I tried to manually ...
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USB cannot be accessed after using Rufus [duplicate]

I tried to install SteamOS Recovery on one of my USB. Half-way through I realized I made the stupidest beginner mistake---the USB size was too small. So I tried to cancel---only to crash Rufus, then ...
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Trying to fix Steam on Linux Mint 19.1 after X Error

I am trying to run Steam on Linux Mint 19.1, and I get the following error when I attempt to run through the command line: Running Steam on linuxmint 19.1 64-bit STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled ...
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How safe are steam games running on Windows 10

My son has a child's account on my Windows 10 x64 machine. I've been letting him install pretty much anything he wants from the Windows store, since with him running under a child's account I think ...
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How to install SteamOS with Seam OS installer solving Debian Installer error?

It throws an error message stating that it could not find this file as you can see from the image below.
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How do i install steamos without an operating system?

my gaming computer's main drive recently crashed (the one that had windows 10 installed on it and all my files), so i bought a new hard drive and i want to still Steamos from a USB. I followed the ...
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Flashing UEFI firmware on a Chromebook?

I have flashed SeaBIOS on my Acer C710 (Parrot) Chromebook so I can use/install most any OS I want. However, now, I'm trying to install SteamOS on an external HDD but to do that, I have to boot the ...
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Is it possible to install Steam Os on an APU A4-6300?

I've read about Steam OS here: http://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown The problem is I don't know if it will run on my future small htpc with this APU from AMD: http://www.tiburcc.it/it-...
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Dual Boot SteamOS from VHD [duplicate]

I have a Windows 8.1 machine. I made a SteamOS Virtual Machine on HyperV, using the Ye Old SteamOS ISO I know it's possible to dual boot from VHD, however Windows bootloader does not support non ...
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Trying to manually install SteamOS - can't choose role for partition

I'm trying to install SteamOS from hard drive partition where I unzipped installer zip. I was able to boot into installer with help of my other OS grub, but now I'm stuck at disk partitioning. In ...
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Virtual Machine UEFI can't type “\”

I am trying to install SteamOS in Oracle VirtualBox. I know how to do it but in the UEFI, it won't let me type "\" it lets me type any other character but not this. Any ideas?
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