[Discussion] SteamOS 3.6 is nearly here, with Valve focusing on bug fixes before release. What are some bugs you've encountered (on either Stable or Beta) that you're hoping to see fixed?

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz⁩ to ⁨steamdeck@sopuli.xyz⁩

Please mention whether you’re on stable, beta, or a different update channel. There’s a good chance most bugs on the stable update channel have been fixed already, so anyone on the beta update can let people know if the bug they’re facing is already fixed.

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Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There’s still some crackling audio on resume from suspend, occasionally. Would love to see that bug ironed out completely.

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- Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’d recommend trying the “Pause games” decky plugin, it can pause the game process immediately before suspending which fixes most of the audio bugs.
  
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  - Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Ah! I actually meant to do that (saw that on another post), but the second to last Deck update broke Decky Loader’s injection sequence, so I forgot about it in the meantime.
    
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ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.place ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If you turn off your deck being online and then turn it on again somewhere with no internet access, sometimes it will not get past the “looking for updates” screen before loading steam. I’ve had that happen more than enough times. Only way to exit from that loop is connecting to internet, but that’s not always possible.

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- 3w0@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  100% agree on this one it’s fucking crazy
  
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Scio@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I just want some updated stacks: Bluetooth especially.

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Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
On beta, the two bugs that annoy me the most are both related to docked play.

The first one is that pressing home + A on a controller to open the QAM will open it for just a moment before opening the full steam overlay instead. It’s acting like it’s counting it as two home presses.

Second one is that every SteamOS update somehow messes up my bluetooth pairing for controllers. The controllers are still listed, but won’t connect. Have to forget them and repair before they’ll work again.
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- vinnymac@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I have these exact same issues, never heard of someone else experiencing them.
  
  I’d say the Bluetooth issues, and the inability for me to turn the steam deck on when docked at a distance (without extras) are my biggest pet peeves right now. Otherwise I’m a happy camper.
  
  The Home + A is annoying, but I usually get it after a few attempts.
  
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AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The weird jumping/flickering animation when pressing play on a game in gaming mode and “Launching game…” appears.

Doesn’t have any impact on actually launching the games but it’s just annoying.

Thought it was Decky at first but I’ve tried disabling it and it still does it.

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- QubaXR@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The one where the zoom animation plays several times in quick succession? Yea, I get that bug too. Very annoying.
  
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  - AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s the one!
    
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  - Yttra@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Huh, I’ve had mine for a couple weeks and only saw it for the first time yesterday, after an update…
    
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MajorHavoc@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
On the stable channel, it seems like (from comparing notes with friends) a recent update introduced crashes into older games that did not crash previously.

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LittleWizard@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I would love to see a Bluetooth headset fully working.

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- TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Have used my BT headset for almost a year and never had an issue. What are you referring to?
  
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- Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Does it not work? I sometimes use Bluetooth earbuds and they work great.
  
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  - LittleWizard@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Interesting. In my experience when on any Linux distribution I have to decide if I want good Audio quality and not use the microphone of the headset or if I want to use a worse audio code but activate the microphone. I thought this still was a widespread issue, or did I miss something?
    
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Vincente@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I usually use my steam deck as my PC with a external monitor in desktop mode, but Cyberpunk 2077 has sound cracking issues in desktop mode. 2.When i unlock the steam deck in desktop mode, it still requires a password input, but it cant use the screen’s virtual keyboard, i have to use an external keyboard to do that.

The internet proxy settings in gaming mode still interrupt and conflict with the desktop settings.
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rotopenguin@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Sometimes when I go into Desktop Mode, X11 doesn’t have any screens. The deck just sits there with a black screen, until I ssh in and kill plasma

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- Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  There was a bug with that, caused both by Decky Recorder and by having Valve’s own game recorder turned on. Uninstalling Decky Recorder and making sure the built in recorder is turned off before entering desktop mode seems to fix it.
  
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Templa@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I want VRR to work again while docked

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nichtburningturtle@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
random crashes

not having audio in the startup animation
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RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Sometimes when I scroll down with the d-pad it scrolls up instead, until it gets to the top, then scrolls down.

Also, I just today changed my timezone setting, but the clock didn’t update.

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- Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The default scroll settings now is circular scroll (where you move your finger in a circle on the track pad). If you don’t know it’s circular it will make it seem like it changes directions at times.
  
  It used to default to swipe up/down to scroll, and the change in defaults has confused a lot of people.
  
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  - RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    But I’m talking about using the D-Pad, and it only happens occasionally.
    
    Oh, also, another d-pad bug is with the keyboard, sometimes if I hold down a direction to highlight a key, it will only move one key at a time and won’t scroll over unless I tap a key with my finger, and then it’ll work normally. This one is pretty frequent.
    
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