Try this:

Enable developer mode (settings>system)

Then open the developer menu (settings>developer) and turn on “Show Advanced Update Channels”

Now go back to the System category and you should have separate options for OS Update and Steam Client. Make sure they’re both set to stable.

If they’re already stable, change the client one to beta, and then back to stable.

I’m pretty sure that works fine actually. I’ve had issues with it not letting me download windows demos in the past on desktop, but on Steam Deck at least it’s let me run every windows demo I’ve tried.

I think they’re asking for recommended controllers.

I plug my deck into a dock, which naturally turns the screen off as it switches to the TV.

However for the OLED deck there are two plugins (Magic Black and Reshade deck) that will let you turn the screen off while the deck is awake.

It’s called magic black.

The reshade deck plugin also has a similar capability through a black screensaver.

There is a decky plugin for that, although it adds about 1w of power usage to have it enabled.

It’s worth noting that if you boot into the recovery image on an OLED deck, it can’t connect to wifi 6 networks without crashing the wifi chip. It’s missing later fixes that valve released to fix wifi 6 networks on the OLED.

It’s still usable, but any OLED owners will want to stick to 2.4Ghz networks during recovery in my experience.

Is this an OLED deck? The OLED deck wireless chip can connect to wifi 6 networks, but when it first came out there were a lot of issues with the Deck wifi chip stopping working at all when you would connect to wifi 6 networks with specific wifi 6 features turned on. After trying to connect to wifi 6 network, the wifi would stop working altogether until a reboot.

Valve released some updates for the OLED deck that fixed it for me, but the issue you’re describing sounds a lot like this. It’s possible your router updated with some new firmware and enabled a new wifi feature that’s crashing the deck’s wifi chip. It’s also worth mentioning that SteamOS recovery image doesn’t have the later wifi fixes that valve released, so if you try to use a recovery usb and connect to a wifi 6 network you’ll have issues.

Some network changes you can try to do (if you’re able to with your ISP router) are separating your wifi into 2.4 and 5ghz networks, and after a deck restart try connecting to the 2.4ghz network (make sure the deck isn’t set to automatically connect to the 5ghz channel). If that works, you can go through router settings and look for wifi 6 (AX) features and try turning them off. If you can’t do anything with the router, you’ll either need to get your ISP to issue you a new router (in case that one’s defective) or buy your own router and use it instead (this is usually the better option anyways, most ISPs charge you a rental fee on routers that’s a way worse deal than buying your own).

You can also do something like buy a wifi extender, the cheap ones are $10-15 and 2.4Ghz only. Make sure it has a different name from the main network (something like network_ext) and it should let you connect your deck.

According to a web search, it’s the webtoon “Return of the Shattered Constellation”

Thanks for the input. As someone who didn’t play these when they first came out, I’ve wondered if it’s worth playing through as a newcomer.

It has all the advantages of steamOS, can boot straight into game mode, supports Decky plugins, etc.

However it also supports installing traditional Linux programs permanently (which steam OS generally won’t let you do), and has other benefits too.

Yeah, I’m hoping to see better Linux support for x86 programs on ARM and RISC-V hardware. I think the future of computers, and especially portable computers, is there.

There are lots of high end android games that this would make available, and we could also benefit from apps like Netflix/etc.

Some of that reflects poorly on the hardware too. With a few exceptions, they’ve shipped a mouse-based operating system on hardware that lacks a good way to control a mouse. If they know that the hardware is running windows ahead of time, wouldn’t it make sense to give users some good options for using windows?

There’s also more obvious hardware issues like the ROG Ally burning up MicroSD cards.

I’ve been fortunate that the main games I want mods for, support it rather seamlessly on linux. R2modman for Lethal Company and other unity games, and Mod.io for Deep Rock Galactic.

Not a gaming headset, but I just use the Pixel bud A-series I got for free when I bought my phone. They work pretty well, and I haven’t had complaints about mic quality.

I do think that the future of handheld devices is ARM or RISC-V, but the software support isn’t there yet and would severely limit what could be played.

It’s heavily rumored that Microsoft is working on their own handheld, and it will be interesting to see how that shakes up the market. If microsoft just makes windows controller/handheld friendly, it will greatly improve all the windows handhelds.

However I strongly suspect that we’ll instead see the microsoft handheld be locked down, only able to run microsoft store games. It’ll still probably do better than all the other non-deck handhelds that way, but won’t really be a handheld “PC” if locked down that way.

Third possibility is that Microsoft might do both, release and locked down handheld and release some lesser improvements for navigating windows with a controller. This outcome would make sense if they have different teams working on both at the same time.

I did, but I haven’t actually watched it yet. I’ve been wanting to buy tunic/ow for years now.

I would assume it would work better, at least for that controller.