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Steam Deck reduces the size of SteamOS from 24 GB to 10 GB

For months now Valve has been developing SteamOS 3.0 to launch with its upcoming Steam Deck portable console, aiming to bring a redesigned interface. However, the last image of SteamOS (version 20211120.2) comes along with a big surprise, showing a significant reduction in the total file size, going from 24 GB to just 10 GB of space required for the entire operating system, giving users an additional 14GB of usable space for games and applications.

That said, we should not be afraid that Valve will decide to simply remove the scissors, since it is about an optimization and not a cut of it. In fact, as collected by some media such as ComputerBase, the company ensures that it also some improvements have been included:

  • Increased touchscreen reliability at every boot
  • Boot sequence cosmetic improvements
  • Fix for fixed HDMI output not working after disconnecting
  • WiFi performance improvements
  • Update to the included version of Steam for first boot on clean / OOBE images
  • BIOS 100 for drives with Micron memory and BIOS 29 for drives with Samsung memory
  • Kernel driver updates for WiFi, audio, GPU, and other components

Steam Deck SteamOS

It’s definitely about a major change for many users, especially for those who ordered the entry-level base edition of this handheld console that comes with only 64 GB of internal storage, although no doubt any owner of a Steam Deck will be able to appreciate these extra 14 GB in which we can download a game more, for example, or just have it available to take care of our SSD drive.

After a first delay with respect to the originally announced dates, it is expected that the first units of the Steam Deck will begin to reach the first users who reserved them from next February 2022, so it would be expected that all of them arrive now with this new lightened version of the operating system from Valve.

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