It’s hard for Valve’s Steam Deck to escape comparisons to Nintendo’s dominant hybrid console: we’ve found that we use our Decks like better, beefier Switches, and skin manufacturer Dbrand just came out with a parodical Switch-themed vinyl wrapper for the Deck. YouTuber SpikeHD went in the other direction though: what if you tried to make a Switch into a Steam Deck?
Short answer is “you can’t,” but god bless him, SpikeHD tried to install Steam on Nintendo’s aging megahit handheld. The resulting 12-minute video is a fascinating look at the digital bowels of the Switch, stripping away that “Nintendo Magic” in an absurd science experiment and revealing the sterile, ordinary computer underneath.
You’ve already been able to run Ubuntu on Switch for a while, and this would…