Wake via Bluetooth isn’t new, the OLED model has always supported it (the LCD doesn’t due to hardware). This just lets you disable it for specific devices that you don’t want to wake the Deck.
Wake via Bluetooth isn’t new, the OLED model has always supported it (the LCD doesn’t due to hardware). This just lets you disable it for specific devices that you don’t want to wake the Deck.
I always use it when docked. Important to note that the LCD version does not support Bluetooth wake though.
You seem to have a misunderstanding of how Bazzite works. It’s just a custom Fedora Atomic spin that includes things like the deck firmware updates, drivers, and gamescope. It does not run SteamOS in a container.
Bazzite uses rpm-ostree. It’s a very different system under the hood.
SteamOS updates can also be done by Discover now. But I would assume his problem is the flatpak updates.
To fix flatpak issues, there is a flatpak repair
command.
The local transfer compresses it with the same format the CDN would use, so if the local PC turns off, it just continues via Valve’s servers. The downside is that the compression is quite aggressive. My PC with a 5950X can only go like 300Mbps on local transfer, so the CDN ends up being faster for me since I have gigabit internet and the Deck can get 600 Mbps even over WiFi.
For people with slow Internet speeds, it’s obviously a great feature though.
Bottles lets you easily add games installed in it to your steam library
Have you tried with the newer Mesas (like in SteamOS 3.5)? Apparently it shouldn’t be a problem anymore with the new shader compiler.
Mine arrived today. But I’m on vacation and won’t get back for a week. My roommate brought it inside, so I’ll have it when I’m back home.
512GB model ordered ~25 minutes in. Currently shipping, but UPS status is just “Label Created” at the moment.
The df
command only shows mounted devices and filesystems. You can use lsblk
to show all block devices and their partitions. To format it more nicely to show the labels for each partition, you can use these options: lsblk -o name,mountpoint,partlabel,size
.
This is the output from my deck without the microsd card:
deck@steamdeck ~> lsblk -o name,mountpoint,partlabel,size
NAME MOUNT PARTLABEL SIZE
nvme0n1 476.9G
├─nvme0n1p1 esp 64M
├─nvme0n1p2 efi-A 32M
├─nvme0n1p3 efi-B 32M
├─nvme0n1p4 / rootfs-A 5G
├─nvme0n1p5 rootfs-B 5G
├─nvme0n1p6 /var var-A 256M
├─nvme0n1p7 var-B 256M
└─nvme0n1p8 /home home 466.3G
Amazon is the only seller of the Select cards. For the Plus, anyone can be a seller, so there could be fakes being sold as well. If the Plus is being sold directly by Amazon, then yes, it should be a legit card and there should be no difference.
Why shouldn’t they buy the select? Isn’t the whole purpose of it being exclusive to prevent people from getting fake cards?
It should be noted that the way you listed the partitions misses the dual (A/B) install method that the deck uses. There are 2 identical size partitions for root, var, and EFI. When an update occurs. The system installs the new update on the inactive set of partitions and then tells the UEFI to use the other set on the next boot. That doesn’t matter too much for 512GB models like your’s, but the extra ~5.5GB for the redundant partition layout can be significant for 64GB models.
IIRC, it was 20GB of OS at launch, but they shrunk it. Now it’s a little over 10GB.
I’ve seen a couple short articles where it had 0% savings, but this is the first time I’ve seen it get longer.
HDR is basically unsupported on desktop Linux, though a lot of work has been done recently. Valve meanwhile decided to do their own userspace implementation for their UI and supporting HDR in Proton.
You don’t need the most specced out steam Deck though. A refurbished 64GB steam Deck at $320 is an insane deal for the hardware and you likely don’t need more than 64GB for a basic home server.
I’ve had connectivity and reliability issues when using Bluetooth controllers with my Steam Deck docked anyway. It’s Bluetooth only seems good for using headphones while handheld for me. I got a 10ft USB extenders and 4 port hub for controllers and it works perfectly and is much easier than having to pair all controllers, make sure they’re all charged, etc.
You can also change the resolution in gaming mode