u/ProfessionHonest3193

I realized that this is a common question among many users, including myself, as I had the exact same question at the end of last year.

First of all, you need to know that:

- Nvidia GPUs are NOT supported, use Bazzite instead;

- Secure boot must be disabled;

- Dual-boot is not supported;

- The installation must be done on an NVMe drive;

- Valve's official support is only for products supported by the company itself, so this installation is entirely experimental;

- A keyboard and mouse are required for the initial setup, as well as a USB drive.

Step by step:

1. Prepare the drive for installation:

a) Set aside a USB drive of at least 16GB, because although the image is only 3GB, it has been highly compressed and usually ends up being more than that when flashed;

b) Download the official image from the update repository:

https://steamdeck-images.steamos.cloud/steamdeck/20251027.1000/steamdeck-repair-main-20251027.1000-3.8.0.img.zip

(The reason this image should be downloaded instead of the official image from the Steam website is because version 3.7 does not yet have the Mesa Drivers update, which are essential for reading newer video cards with RDNA 4);

c) Unzip the file;

d) Download Balena Etcher and flash the .img file to your USB drive. This process usually takes some time.

2. Restart your device and enter the BIOS;

3. Disable Secure Boot, save the settings, and choose the USB drive as the boot option;

4. Once the system boots from the USB drive, you should see several lines of code. These are confirming which hardware you are running the installation on. If this happens, then it means the process worked.

5. You will be taken to the KDE desktop, where you will see the option to wipe and install. Simply click and wait for the official SteamOS to be installed on your machine.

Done. And that's how you installed the official version of SteamOS on your non-Valve machine.

Hey! Estou com um bug, pois tenho duas contas vinculadas ao meu email principal. Eu percebi que o bug ocorre nas formas de se logar. Quando eu faço login utilizando o email, ele vai para a outra conta, quando eu faço login utilizando o gmail, vem pra essa. Já faz anos isso e nunca consegui unificar. Essa que eu uso diariamente acabou ficando com todo meu conteúdo, e a outra possui o username que eu gostaria de ter usado desde o início. Eu gostaria muito de fazer um merge e utilizar o username da outra conta, pois nessa foi colocado um username aleatório que nunca me foi oferecida a oportunidade de realizar a troca. É possível?