Any fix for the battery indicator not updating? Lost my tier 3 Control Expedition because of that :/
SteamOS 3.7.13 update gets fixes for more handhelds, fixes WiFi regression on Steam Deck OLED
Submitted 3 weeks ago by tonytins@pawb.social to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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callouscomic@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I remember when “brick” had a very specific definition with respect to electronics… Does it no longer mean, “broken beyond repair”?
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I don’t think it quite applies here since all that was needed was a reboot.
callouscomic@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
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.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
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. However they only recently applied that wifi fix to the SteamOS recovery usb drive, so 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.
callouscomic@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Very interesting. Good to know. I just never bothered to try again. Thank you for all the info.
jackod@lemmy.nz 3 weeks 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 😅
semisimian@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
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.
punk_princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
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.
notfromhere@lemmy.ml 2 weeks 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).
rotopenguin@infosec.pub 2 weeks 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.
Lydia_K@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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)