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:
There's a related bug where the deck is trying to connect to the Internet to verify Steam. A way to fix it is with a directly connected Ethernet adapter (or using your phone as a tethered hot spot)
If that doesn't work, you can reinstall steamOS without wiping your user data or games.
MVP comment
They are BETA updates, meaning they are not polished, they contain bugs. Stick with stable if you don't want bugs.
I don't know when it changed, but somewhere in the last 5-10 years gamers and tech enthusiasts have forgotten what "beta" means.
Used to be that if you installed a Beta OS, like Vista, (I mean Windows Longhorn, anyone?) you would pretty much know that something would go wrong, you could lose all your data, and you may need to reinstall everything, but to please submit a bug report so they can look into it. Vista and 7 was had a few bug reports from me I remember.
Now I see posts and people like this saying "I installed a beta OS and it is buggy! What happened?!?" Or worse "Don't use this garbage product it's so buggy." Like, that's literally what it is, a buggy, not ready for main stream product. I'd love to use some of the new features from SteamOS 3.5 but I use my deck when traveling, and I don't have a backup, so I stick with the stable release branch.
Unless you are okay with resetting everything potentially every update and losing data, then you want stable.
(and OP here doesn't seem to be complaining as much as others I have seen, but I stick with my point. Satisfactory forum users are some of the worst users in my book....)
Hold down the “….” Button then press power, then after you hear the power on chime release the power button but still hold the “….”, roll back to the file with last good known configuration date and run it. It might restart back to factory settings depending on the date selected and how long you've had the device.
Edit: found this on Reddit, not my 'guide'
Nah had tried that, unfortunately both partitions lead to the same Verifying Installation screen...
Holoiso works okay if you're frustrated and don't mind starting over.
Just FYI this seems to be occurring with lots of decks after the most recent Beta update...may want to roll stable for a bit or avoid rebooting till a new update is out.