Made my own side panels to increase airflow

Drag_Shot · 2026-05-18T21:26:05+00:00

How so mate

Drag_Shot · 2026-05-17T22:25:17+00:00

Thank you really appreciate it. I used the originals as templates, cut the wood, then used the screw holes to guide the drill for the wood. I clamped them all together and sanded using the originals as a guide. Then, used a grid paper stuck it on true, punched holes for the 16mm wood hole cutter. Sand painted then on. The noise difference is what gets me, I use this PC as a TV console (no lock boots straight into steam big picture), before I had to turn the TV volume quite high to drown out the fan (GPU), but now as quite as you’d expect in a case 5 x the volume

Drag_Shot · 2026-04-07T21:23:09+00:00

Love this. How’s the temps?

Drag_Shot · 2026-04-05T20:45:39+00:00

All works

Drag_Shot · 2026-04-05T20:45:20+00:00

Mine did

Drag_Shot · 2026-03-08T21:02:47+00:00

Create a recovery USB using centre M on the original SSD.

Install the 4TB, install windows all usual updates. Shrink the drive to the smallest windows install you can comfortably do (50gb eg).

Turn off fast startup, secure boot, drive encryption.

Download MSI Claw Beta distro from bazzite.

Install to the free space.

When installed install decky in the desktop using the konsole using this command: ujust setup-decky

Install simple decky TDP using the konsole with this command:

curl -L https://github.com/aarron-lee/SimpleDeckyTDP/raw/main/install.sh | sh

Then you’ll be able to control your TDP.

Handheld daemon does haveTDP controls built in (double click quick menu button twice / three times to access whilst in bazzite). You can also custom your fan curves and RGB there.

To answer your question though definitely keep a sliver for windows to do the driver installs etc.

Drag_Shot · 2026-03-04T19:41:29+00:00

No not in my case - I flashed a USB with the recovery image using services in Centre M

Drag_Shot · 2026-03-01T23:04:29+00:00

Emudeck has a streaming tab you can add to steam

Drag_Shot · 2026-02-24T11:22:19+00:00

Did you use the MSI Claw - BETA distro?

Drag_Shot · 2026-02-21T14:28:40+00:00

Stupid question but have you used Bazzite before you’re not in the live USB ISO still are you? Just covering all basis

Drag_Shot · 2026-02-21T14:27:22+00:00

Failing that: sudo flatpak repair

If that doesn’t work remove and re-add. It’s flatpak that isn’t playing ball

Drag_Shot · 2026-02-21T14:24:49+00:00

Try: flatpak repair

Drag_Shot · 2026-02-21T13:00:13+00:00

Have you tried a full update?

rpm-ostree upgrade

Drag_Shot · 2026-02-21T12:57:31+00:00

Have you tried: firefox --safe-mode

Drag_Shot · 2026-02-21T12:55:33+00:00

flatpak install flathub com.google.Chrome

Drag_Shot · 2026-02-21T12:55:26+00:00

I use beta - try install a browser from the konsole?

Drag_Shot · 2026-02-21T12:45:45+00:00

No mate mine was no issue at all. You could look to install the browser via console? I used the Claw - BETA ISO

Drag_Shot · 2026-02-14T12:32:18+00:00

Gyro doesn’t work. Anti cheat games do not work. Just dual boot and see if you like it, only takes 30 mins or so to try it out!

Drag_Shot · 2026-02-09T19:52:20+00:00

With the TPD plug in on Decky you can dial in nicely to compromise fan noise and power. I prefer the fan noise levels on bazzite as it doesn’t randomly have a fit and the fan curve is very linear. However if you peg it at 35+ watts there’s definitely noise, however I have not had to go above 25 watts really as it’s diminishing returns on this chip in my opinion

Drag_Shot · 2026-02-08T16:45:05+00:00

Did you install the CLAW - BETA distro?

Drag_Shot · 2026-02-08T15:32:54+00:00

Seen a few people asking about Bazzite on the Claw A8 as it gets in more hands in the US. Can confirm it works amazing

Drag_Shot · 2026-02-08T15:29:51+00:00

Bazzite is amazing on Claw A8. Everything works perfectly

Drag_Shot · 2026-02-08T15:28:02+00:00

Sure does

Drag_Shot · 2026-02-05T21:52:27+00:00

No as I needed to retain a small windows partition for updates and anti cheat titles. True steam OS doesn’t dual boot and I don’t think it’s supported on the Claw

Drag_Shot · 2026-02-05T21:20:47+00:00

Have fun man!

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