Coburn's online journal featuring thoughts, opinions of a programmer upside down in the Southern Hemisphere.
Ever wanted to run SteamOS and Windows side-by-side on your Steam Deck without having to reinstall the OS? At the end of this tutorial, you will achieve being able to dualboot between Windows 10/11 and SteamOS. Your installed games on SteamOS will be preserved, unless something goes wrong during the partitioning stage of the tutorial….
If you’ve followed my guide to purge Microsoft Edge off your Windows installation, sometimes you may notice that it’ll come back uninvited. Luckily, I have figured out how to stick a gag into it and tell it to bugger off. The Remedy Firstly, check to see if the MicrosoftEdgeUpdate.exe file exists in a specific folder…
If you’ve followed my guide on how to dual boot Windows 11 and SteamOS together on the internal storage of the Steam Deck, you may run into a situation where the Steam Deck BIOS boot selection entry is gone after a BIOS update is installed. Read on to find out how to get yourself back…
This is literally the ultimate Steam Deck Windows Driver Pack and it’s a supplement to my guide on how to do a non-destructive dualboot setup on the Steam Deck. While it mostly contains Valve-supplied drivers, it also has some of the missing ones that I’ve found over my adventures on the internet. UPDATE 2023-10-26: Apparently…
Metal Waltz, also known as Panzer Waltz in Japan is a game developed by Shanghai JingCai Computer Software Development Co., Ltd. and was originally released on iOS and Android devices with a Steam PC release which can be found here. Oddly enough, the splash screen states What’s Up Labs as the developers, so I wonder…
Experimenting with dual booting various Operating Systems on devices like the Steam Deck can be a pain. However, I would like to point you at this GitHub Repository called “Steam rEFInd”. What the github repository contains is a installer that installs a open source bootloader to your Steam Deck’s boot partition. This allows one to…
Microsoft doesn’t let you do this because their shitty Chromium-based browser is a “vital component of the operating system”, but with some brute force, Edge will be no more. And it actually works – this ain’t clickbait!
So… we’re back and here’s the results of the testing of the AliExpress Choice MicroSD Cards. These were XrayDisk-branded, which has been a good brand with some SSDs I got from them in the past. Surprisingly, they are genuine and unlike the fake 256GB/512GB KRY-branded MicroSDs some time ago, they actually have a good read…
These just arrived in my mailbox today. Are they legit, or are they fakes? Stay tuned for some tests…
It’s keep this one short and sweet… but it’s definitely not sweet. February’s been a wild month. I thought I was going to get a good run for the start of this year. Stars were aligning, things going the way they should… Until the last couple of weeks came along and flipped all that upside…