Plasma w/Wayland has been working well for me the past year. I'm ready.

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Quoting: CyborgZetaI wasn't planning on getting a Deck OLED, but I somehow ended up messing up my original Deck. I opened it back up to replace the 512GB SSD I installed when I first got it with a 2TB SSD...but after that it randomly shut down on me while playing a game, would fault to fully boot, and the picture would get all glitchy and none of my buttons would work. I think it go an error downloading the 3.5 update since, when it went to reboot, it got stuck on a black screen and got hot, with the screen getting colorful and fuzzy for several seconds, before I manually shut it off. I can only speculate that that experience caused the internals to overheat and damage something.

The 2TB SSD I got definitely wasn't the issue. Not only did it pass SMART no problem, but I just put it into my Deck OLED and everything is fine. Very strange experience.

... is everything connected/seated correctly? You'd be surprised how many odd things a loose cable/loose seating could cause.

That honestly sounds to me like something isn't connected correctly/fully, or something got damaged while you were changing bits.

I don't feel like opening it up back up to check, but I do not recall anything out of the ordinary. I opened up my Steam Deck the same way I did the first time, including grounding myself with an anti-static bracelet like I always do when playing with PC internals. The only thing I disconnected was the battery, for obvious reasons.

That said, when I reopened it the third time to remove the 2TB drive from it to put away for the OLED, I did forget to remove my microSD card from the slot before reopening it and it broke in two. Complete boneheaded move on my part.

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Great news. I love my Arc A770, but some games just don't start. So far, it's just been Cyberpunk 2077 and the Resident Evil 4 remake. Crisis Core Reunion initially had the same issue, but it started working again last month.

Not a big deal right now, since Cyberpunk and RE4R aren't games I care about; but improved drivers is nonetheless a good thing all around.

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I wasn't planning on getting a Deck OLED, but I somehow ended up messing up my original Deck. I opened it back up to replace the 512GB SSD I installed when I first got it with a 2TB SSD...but after that it randomly shut down on me while playing a game, would fault to fully boot, and the picture would get all glitchy and none of my buttons would work. I think it go an error downloading the 3.5 update since, when it went to reboot, it got stuck on a black screen and got hot, with the screen getting colorful and fuzzy for several seconds, before I manually shut it off. I can only speculate that that experience caused the internals to overheat and damage something.

The 2TB SSD I got definitely wasn't the issue. Not only did it pass SMART no problem, but I just put it into my Deck OLED and everything is fine. Very strange experience.

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https://www.pcgamer.com/steam-deck-oled-battery-life-improvements-coming-to-lcd-versions/ [External Link]

At least they're bringing battery life and other optimizations to the LCD models as well.

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I'm pretty satisfied with the original Deck; I don't use mine more than once or twice a week either.

Based off my experience with the OLED displays on my Pixel phones, having one on my Steam Deck would be pretty nice. I like original IPS LCD screen fine though.

I guess, in short, this newer Deck is a "maybe" for me right now.

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I'm using Kubuntu 23.04 (23.10 upgrade hasn't dropped yet). I'm glad that Plasma will be defaulting to Wayland, as I've found it to work very well in 5.27.

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I'm excited. I do love Plasma, and I've been using Plasma w/Wayland for the past year or two. It's gotten really good. Especially with Plasma 5.27; previous versions had some bugs, but 5.27 has been very stable for me.

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Just in time for Kubuntu 24.04 LTS.

Although, if they want to take more time, that'd be fine with me. Plasma 5.27 has been very good.

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I'm grateful to Valve. Proton working as well as it does helped keep me on Linux after jumping onboard this train back in 2020.

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