I used this guide to get Windows 11 running on an SD card, although not the whole guide.

There are guides out there for both, with pros and cons, but I personally right now am using a 512GB microSD card to run Windows 11 and it seems to work fine. There are two general approaches: Dual-Booting and External Drive. That out of the way, the first step here is to figure out where you want to install your windows. I think using Windows on the steam deck only really makes a ton of sense specifically for GamePass games and for steam games that just do not work at all on Proton. So first thing is first: If a game can run on SteamOS and runs well, I highly suggest you just play it on SteamOS.Įven with windows set up as best as it can be, SteamOS is still much more better designed to be a console OS than windows is. So this post is detailing how I set it up and got it to a pretty solid place for anyone else to imitate.

With the looming christmas holidays coming up though I decided to set it up again in order to play a few games while traveling, and it is in a much, much, better place now with community tools. A while ago I tried to set up windows on my steam deck so that I could play some game pass games, but it ended up being sort of annoying after setting it up so I never really used it.

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