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Comment on [PSA] If you had switched to the main update channel to get 3.5 early, I would recommend changing back one of the less bleeding edge update channels.

nottheengineer@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

I expected better of valve. They have the stable and beta channels so they should use them without exception.

The beta users would’ve created enough crash reports for them to notice that 3.6 isn’t stable yet.

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Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Sorry, I think I misled you. The “main” channel is the most bleeding edge update channel name. After that you have beta-candidate, beta, stable candidate, and stable. 3.6 is live on the “main” channel only, so it definitely shouldn’t affect regular steamOS users.

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- caleb@lemmy.moorenet.casa ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  I haven’t touched my steam deck in a month or 2. Is there a process for switching back? Just ignore the pending update, switch the channel, then check for updates again?
  
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  - Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    Yes, you just pick a different update channel, check for updates, and it will let you rollback to an older update.
    
    There can be problems though, one time I updated and it wouldn’t let me downgrade. I had to wait until the next update fixed it before I could downgrade. And this time when 3.6 broke part of my desktop mode, downgrading didn’t fix it and I had to do a lot more troubleshooting to get it going again.
    
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    caleb@lemmy.moorenet.casa ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    Gotcha. I dont forsee a problem since my current 3.5 version is probably older than the version on the beta-candidate channel.
    
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    Privatepower42@fosstodon.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    @Fubarberry That's a bold strategy, cotton. Let see if it pays off.
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