Quoting: Marlock

Quoting: WorMzyOnly had my deck for ~24 hours, but so far 'stable' has had issues connecting to wifi consistently, didn't log me into steam when I switched to desktop mode the first time (and consequently couldn't use the OSD keyboard to enter my password+steamcode, had to use an OTG connector to hook up a spare USB keyboard), and doesn't always switch between gaming/desktop modes when I tell it to.

Might try Preview. :P

If your issue is related to 5GHz wifi instabilities, the beta OS branch (now renamed "preview") is a good bet to get a potential fix from Valve that's being tested

if you don't want to go to preview or that fix doesn't help, here is my list of common wifi workarounds for the Deck:

1) enable developer mode, then go to the new "developer" tab in steam settings and disable wifi power savings

2) unhide your wifi ssid if hidden (hiding it is well know to not really be useful for privacy nor for security, by the way)

3) if 2,4GHz and 5GHz bands are joined in a single ssid, split them in the router configs and use only one of them

4) choose a fixed wifi channel instead of leaving it in auto (configure the same channel in both the router and the deck)

5) try a different router brand/model or a smartphone wifi hotspot... some people have issues only with certains devices but not with others

6) try an ethernet dongle instead of the deck's wifi

7) try a wifi dongle with well-known good linux support instead of using the built-in wifi chip

Cheers, I'd already found '1)' as a workaround for the time being, good to know there are other options. :)

I just thought we were past the whole 'WiFi sucks on Linux' era. At least we're not still heavily reliant on ndiswrapper... :sick:

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Only had my deck for ~24 hours, but so far 'stable' has had issues connecting to wifi consistently, didn't log me into steam when I switched to desktop mode the first time (and consequently couldn't use the OSD keyboard to enter my password+steamcode, had to use an OTG connector to hook up a spare USB keyboard), and doesn't always switch between gaming/desktop modes when I tell it to.

Might try Preview. :P

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: WorMzyInteresting choice to have firefox baked into the image -- it'll pull in the gtk3 stack (:sick:) and increase the size of the image considerably (would add ~300MiB to my plasma system). If they just need a basic browser for people to use to navigate to flathub or whatever, konqueror might fill that niche (+~25MiB).

Konqueror is based on webkit, right?
I wonder if there is a browser using chromium web engine (still blink?) using qt5.

Falkon, although with the qt5-webengine package (and related deps) you're probably looking at ~200MiB.

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Interesting choice to have firefox baked into the image -- it'll pull in the gtk3 stack (:sick:) and increase the size of the image considerably (would add ~300MiB to my plasma system). If they just need a basic browser for people to use to navigate to flathub or whatever, konqueror might fill that niche (+~25MiB).

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Wow, guess this site is a teenager now. I hope this doesn't mean it's going to start smelling strongly of Lynx and erupting in spots. :tongue:

Happy birthday GoL, and congratulations Liam et al!

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A little late for the last stat scrape, but I've just tried the latest Plasma on Wayland, and it looks like they finally made it aware of the primary selection buffer. Seems it always syncs the primary buffer and the clipboard, but I usually have that option enabled in klipper anyway, so I'm happy with that. Will need to try it out for a few days, but I might be updating my info to wayland-based in the near future. :D

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Quoting: mphuZValve should provide SteamOS to users. It will be an amazing experience and will give a big boost to Linux.

Just like SteamOS v1 and v2 did? :whistle:

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Just got my reservation fulfilled too. Wasn't expecting to get 68 Steam Sale cards from the transaction! :grin:

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Quoting: redneckdrow

Quoting: TheSHEEEPThis will go into the imaginary "show off" distribution in which everything is terminal.
No Chrome, no Firefox. Only Lynx.
No Steam, no Battle for Wesnoth even. Only various roguelikes, that one economy/war sim whose name I forgot and now this.

The one you're thinking of is probably Arcane Fortune. Plus I thought of various versions of trek, taipan, and dwarf fortress in PRINT:TEXT mode (Handy way to play it over ssh!).

Great DF shoutout, I love that Toady One included TEXT mode pretty much exclusively for the mad bastards who want to play DF over SSH. :D
Also, thanks for mentioning Arcane Fortune, turns out there was a 0.4.0 release about a year ago that I missed (and I maintain the AUR packages... :whistle:).

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I registered for my 512GB version on the day registrations opened, and Steam is still estimating July-September as my availability date. :sad:

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