There's now a dedicated website for Steam Deck boot videos

There was a website doing this already, but I believe there was some controversy over it as the person was snagging boot videos from reddit and other places then adding donate options to their site for them, which they retained. This seems to be something entirely new and a lot better.

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"someone"

Has that user asked for donations? I checked and the site doing it previously was at other boot video site asking for donations. That was the one where people were asking for their videos to be taken down from it.

EDIT: Ignore me, my brain is slow this morning, you were replying to the article and not me.


Last edited by Supay on 10 October 2022 at 10:45 am UTC

"someone"

Yeah, could have worded that better. Once again though, there is a corrections feature to send a comment directly to me and others to offer an improvement. Please use it instead of comments we might miss.


Last edited by Liam Dawe on 10 October 2022 at 11:08 am UTC

its so ironic to see people simulating CLI:

https://steamdeckrepo.com/post/EAelE/pip_boy_logo_transform
https://steamdeckrepo.com/post/ENw2Y/nier_automata

i mean, linux had CLI boot screens before it was cool, it was just... what we had, no boot screen, just cli to debug stuff. (and people saw it and think: oh, this is scary! i will admit that i still freak out a little when i see the cli during the boot because i know things may have gone south , its pretty much PTSD)
anyway, some of those are quite cool
https://steamdeckrepo.com/post/gErOY/minimalist_transformer_style
https://steamdeckrepo.com/post/KEkRn/neo_geo_arcade_intro
https://steamdeckrepo.com/post/E1GLP/cyberpunk_2077_system_reboot
https://steamdeckrepo.com/post/n8aaE/metal_gear_solid

and i laughted at "whos that pokemon"
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/185cgjIrsULzFRDcVKS7i_kHv7PMoHkKu
despite the fact that i hate 4kids edits

and you know what? we know the year of linux came when people get excidted about an linux device to the point of customizing the bootscreen with tons of options, the OS vendor having to officially support that feature, and those screens proudly saying "steamOS" and not windows, implying those users arent dualbooting (not that they can customize windows that much anyway)


Last edited by elmapul on 10 October 2022 at 12:33 pm UTC

Damn, they all are just so great! Can I just put em all in a folder and have the Deck choose one at random? That would increase my average daily happiness by at least 10%

Damn, they all are just so great! Can I just put em all in a folder and have the Deck choose one at random? That would increase my average daily happiness by at least 10%

There is indeed. I highly recommend this. You can put weightings on them too.

random deck boot animations

its so ironic to see people simulating CLI:

https://steamdeckrepo.com/post/EAelE/pip_boy_logo_transform
https://steamdeckrepo.com/post/ENw2Y/nier_automata

i mean, linux had CLI boot screens before it was cool, it was just... what we had, no boot screen, just cli to debug stuff. (and people saw it and think: oh, this is scary! i will admit that i still freak out a little when i see the cli during the boot because i know things may have gone south , its pretty much PTSD)
anyway, some of those are quite cool
https://steamdeckrepo.com/post/gErOY/minimalist_transformer_style
https://steamdeckrepo.com/post/KEkRn/neo_geo_arcade_intro
https://steamdeckrepo.com/post/E1GLP/cyberpunk_2077_system_reboot
https://steamdeckrepo.com/post/n8aaE/metal_gear_solid

and i laughted at "whos that pokemon"
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/185cgjIrsULzFRDcVKS7i_kHv7PMoHkKu
despite the fact that i hate 4kids edits

and you know what? we know the year of linux came when people get excidted about an linux device to the point of customizing the bootscreen with tons of options, the OS vendor having to officially support that feature, and those screens proudly saying "steamOS" and not windows, implying those users arent dualbooting (not that they can customize windows that much anyway)

I wish macOS wouldn't have a boot splash. Like I could maybe see why it's so slow to boot... It's funny, I actually prefer a text dump to make sure my services are starting, but definitely will set up debian with a splash for others. Since you can just hit escape, it solves the best of both worlds.

Damn, they all are just so great! Can I just put em all in a folder and have the Deck choose one at random? That would increase my average daily happiness by at least 10%

There is indeed. I highly recommend this. You can put weightings on them too.

random deck boot animations

Perfect, thanks!

Not to be a party pooper, but guys remember to exercise caution when downloading and installing stuff onto your decks. Remember, just because it's Linux it doesn't mean it can't be infected.

Note: I should be very clear here, this is not a reflection of the quality of that website nor my opinion of any given user or creator on that website. More just general computer security advice.

Damn, they all are just so great! Can I just put em all in a folder and have the Deck choose one at random? That would increase my average daily happiness by at least 10%

You could probably make a script for this. I mean, someone has probably already made one xD

EDIT: Oh, yeah, https://github.com/hummelm10/steamdeck_startup_animations was already mentioned, and do precisely that…


Last edited by Breizh on 10 October 2022 at 5:14 pm UTC

Love the Futurama vid! May actually make the effort for that one.

I wish macOS wouldn't have a boot splash. Like I could maybe see why it's so slow to boot... It's funny, I actually prefer a text dump to make sure my services are starting, but definitely will set up debian with a splash for others. Since you can just hit escape, it solves the best of both worlds.

if an computer is capable of playbacking an video, its most likely will be able to boot.
if if fallback to text only, then things may have gone south, in any case you can always disable the boot screen on linux.
im not sure about mac

There was a website doing this already, but I believe there was some controversy over it as the person was snagging boot videos from reddit and other places then adding donate options to their site for them, which they retained. This seems to be something entirely new and a lot better.

Hello this is the owner of that site speaking, i want to clear some things up. First of i didn't 'snag' any video, every video on my site i have permission for for it to be there (i have proof). Also yes there was someone who wanted their video removed but that was only because i wasn't clear enough in my messaging about the donation page, in the meantime he has given me back the permission to post his videos and the problem is resolved. You can see it on the tread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/xeb919/comment/irjr6s1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 I hope everyone understands now that i don't have any bad intentions

and those screens proudly saying "steamOS" and not windows, implying those users arent dualbooting (not that they can customize windows that much anyway)

The animations saying "SteamOS" is a bit misleading anyway. Steam (the client) plays the boot animation on Deck, after booting is basically finished and the OS launches Steam automatically in Gaming Mode.