A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.
Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
Me just waiting for them to fix the mutiple screen option....
(It used to beautifully let me turn on and off the deck screen while using a monitor and have it be in the proper place/orientation, not I have to manually go and arrange the screen correctly every time)
Any fix for the battery indicator not updating? Lost my tier 3 Control Expedition because of that :/
Edit: yay
Fixed a case where the battery level indicator could become stuck.
Finally!
Ah I was wondering why my steam deck was struggling to connect to the WiFi, now just the trouble of getting the update to download 😅
I have a dedicated windows 10 PC for gaming only. Microsoft is actively trying to brick my machine. I have to read the fine print to make sure I'm not agreeing to the 11 "update." I feel held hostage - it sucks.
I'm thinking of going to steamOS - I'm a casual gamer that just needs it to work when I have the spare minute to fire up a game. I don't have time to do much troubleshooting, but I will make time so I don't get locked into a console. Shrugging emoji.
Honestly, I would back up all of your downloads, documents, pictures, videos, browser history/passwords/bookmarks, and anything else you want to save to an external drive or to The Cloud (or multiple, e.g., most/all browsers have a sync function, and OneDrive/Google Drive/Dropbox, etc.), and then download and test drive multiple different distros until you find one that you like and has good community support. Nearly all distros today will let you test it out without installing (kind of a try before you buy). Once you find one, install it while wiping the Windows install, then load your graphics drivers and Steam. Steam will handle the rest as far as running your games (some caveats apply, i.e., some multiplayer games will not work because the developers are assholes).
SteamOS isn't really meant for any system outside the Steam Deck and a handful of similar handhelds. I'm pretty sure it doesn't have any Nvidia drivers, for starters.
Bazzite and Nobara are the general answers to gaming on any random PC hardware.
what do you play most often? how proactively accepting are you of your niche games not working anymore?
steamOS is great when you are comfortable staying inside the curated user experience. stepping outside of it will inevitably experience work flow obstructions. the previous update broke many users's supporting software mods. decky loader and similar.
enjoy games with kernel level anticheat?
you may need to reconsider. there is a growing list of games where the multiplayer is inaccessible because of hardware ID bans after one brat ruins the fun for everyone.
Have they ever fixed 5ghz wifi? It used to brick my OG deck and then clearly did with OLED as well. Just kept it on 2.4 forever. Stupid ass problem.
I remember when "brick" had a very specific definition with respect to electronics... Does it no longer mean, "broken beyond repair"?
It requires a full reset and starting over from scratch. Whatever. Fucking idiotic complaint to needle in on that one word and a bunch of fucking comments, none of which at all even address my point. But thanks for nothing.
Did I complain?
Yeah, I don't think it quite applies here since all that was needed was a reboot.
I think there has always been more than one meaning to it. To me it's also meant "requires a full reinstall/restore to get working again, either through normal means, or using a special tool/method". Like, full loss of data but not completely broken.
Anything less than that though, like a system freeze that only requires a hard reset, definitely doesn't count.
I always called that a soft brick when it could still power on, but couldn’t load the main operating system, but it could receive a reinstall of the system.
Hard brick was the one where it was permanently disabled either from not able to power on or was incapable of reloading the main OS without essentially “brain surgery” of the device.
I guess brick could extend to broken components until a reboot (such as a broke WiFi driver or such). What type of “brick” would it be? How about glitch brick?
Yes, it was fixed December of 2023 or January of 2024, if I recall right. Not long after the OLED launched. It was some specific wifi features, mostly wifi 6 features, that would cause the wifi card to malfunction and not work at all until you rebooted. Had to disable the specific wifi features on your router if you wanted to use 5ghz, or stick to 2.4ghz networks. Didn't usually affect LED decks afaik since they wouldn't try to use the affected wifi 6 features.
While valve got it fixed in SteamOS not too long after launch, they only recently applied that wifi fix to the SteamOS recovery usb drive. There was over a year where people could still run into the wifi issue if they had to repair their OS from a recovery drive.
Very interesting. Good to know. I just never bothered to try again. Thank you for all the info.