• Midnitte@beehaw.org
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    2 days ago

    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.

  • Lydia_K@lemmy.world
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    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)

  • jackod@lemmy.nz
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    2 days ago

    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 😅

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    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.

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      13 hours ago

      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).

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      14 hours ago

      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.

    • punk_princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      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.

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    2 days ago

    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.

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      2 days ago

      I remember when “brick” had a very specific definition with respect to electronics… Does it no longer mean, “broken beyond repair”?

      • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        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.

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          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?

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      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.