TL;DR: Are you tired of that stock boot animation on your Steam Deck? Here we'll show you a few cool alternatives and tell you how to put them to use. It's not hard and can be a fun (or funny) way to ...

Want to make starting your Steam Deck a little more exciting? The Steam Deck has supported custom boot animations for a while now – that means that your startup screen can show a brief customized ...

Steam Deck isn’t another run-of-the-mill portable gaming console. It runs on Steam OS, which is based on Linux. You can change a lot of things about Steam Deck to make it more personal without having ...

Custom Steam Deck boot videos are all the rage, and Valve's latest beta update makes it even easier to use your own start screen. The newest patch also addresses quirks with startup haptics, and ...

It’s now easier than ever to add a custom boot screen to your Steam Deck. And trust us, if you have a Steam Deck and haven’t considered doing this yet, you should. There are some really cool ...

Turning off unused startup apps can help your computer start faster. You can change startup programs in Windows 11 using Settings or Task Manager. This article shows you how to change startup programs ...

Windows 8 is remembered most for its oddball touchscreen-focused full-screen Start menu, but it also introduced a number of under-the-hood enhancements to Windows. One of those was UEFI Secure Boot, a ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...