Personal note: I am not very knowledgeable on computers.
I have a new solid state drive after my old hard drive's Windows key apparently 'expired.'
The ssd is preloaded with Windows 10 because of familiarity and 'muh gaymes', but I do want to start getting away from Microsoft stuff (including the OS) on principle.
I know internet browser options are currently a bit "pick your poison." I've been satisfied with Brave and Waterfox, and previously Pale Moon (dropped for some website or add-in functionality I can't remember from years ago).
Besides that, I was thinking this might be a good opportunity to learn about current software/projects doing things properly.
So, I'll just share what programs I see among my hard drive files... 7zip, SumatraPDF, VLC, Audacity (which I recall seeing got bought), Steam, Dropbox, MusicBee (music player and manager), OpenOffice, and some game emulators for a Nintendo fanboomer.
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I'll be curious to give it a try because a steam deck is on my purchase list, however I do actually test things and if I find it's too much of a pain in the arse to get things working on steam then I'll probably just wipe it and install Windows 11 on it and use that as a second mini-gaming desktop in the living room. It would be nice to have a second PC while I do any chuggy rendering in Blender for my short films etc.
If steam deck was closed source bullshit and they forced you to keep SteamOS installed I wouldn't even be interested but that's my upgrade plan at the moment. That and I want to switch to pure SSD finally for my main desktop. The problem is I like playing old games mainly and very often the support on Linux for them is garbage.
You can check the compatibility of any game on Steam with www.protondb.com, you can use it to run non-Steam games too and that + DOSBox means you're pretty much covered on any old games.