Also anyone can tell me the difference in performance between the white one and the blue one??

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    Additionally, to what was already said, the size of storage is giving in Decimal (1000B based) while after formatting it is often shown in Binary (1024B based), which makes the storage look smaller, which it isn’t.

    And the most of the storage is coming from software stored in your home, not the OS itself. The OS only occupies around 3.3GB on the 5GB root partition:

    /dev/nvme0n1p4  5.0G  3.3G  1.5G  69% /
    /dev/nvme0n1p6  230M   41M  173M  19% /var
    /dev/nvme0n1p8  466G  115G  351G  25% /home
    
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      It should be noted that the way you listed the partitions misses the dual (A/B) install method that the deck uses. There are 2 identical size partitions for root, var, and EFI. When an update occurs. The system installs the new update on the inactive set of partitions and then tells the UEFI to use the other set on the next boot. That doesn’t matter too much for 512GB models like your’s, but the extra ~5.5GB for the redundant partition layout can be significant for 64GB models.

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        I’ve used df -h and that showed only this three partitions. I’ve only skipped the tmpfs mounts.

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          The df command only shows mounted devices and filesystems. You can use lsblk to show all block devices and their partitions. To format it more nicely to show the labels for each partition, you can use these options: lsblk -o name,mountpoint,partlabel,size.

          This is the output from my deck without the microsd card:

          deck@steamdeck ~> lsblk -o name,mountpoint,partlabel,size
          NAME        MOUNT PARTLABEL   SIZE
          nvme0n1                     476.9G
          ├─nvme0n1p1       esp          64M
          ├─nvme0n1p2       efi-A        32M
          ├─nvme0n1p3       efi-B        32M
          ├─nvme0n1p4 /     rootfs-A      5G
          ├─nvme0n1p5       rootfs-B      5G
          ├─nvme0n1p6 /var  var-A       256M
          ├─nvme0n1p7       var-B       256M
          └─nvme0n1p8 /home home      466.3G