If you’re waiting for a steam deck to be available i have good news. The problem was that they used all of the locktite in the world on one of the screws on my steamdeck which made changing the ssd a PITA on mine, i ended up destroying that screw. I’m sure they’ll get more locktite abd begin shipping to you soon. I use arch btw.
Fuck you and I’ll see you tomorrow!
Ill be getting mine later this week, and that screw issue is not what i wanted to hear.
If it helps, I took mine apart this last weekend with no issues whatsoever.
7/8 came out with no problem, that’s still pretty good. I ended up using a tiny flathead to get it out but that joker was too far gone to go back in. Next i might try that clear back with improved passive cooling. I figure if the fans aren’t working so hard the battery might last a bit longer.
I also took my SSD out and replaced it without issue. Seems OP just got unlucky
Also picked one up recently and one of the screws was really planted in there, was still able to get it out without stripping it luckily.