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Steam Deck

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[–] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is there a way to do a clean installation of the OS without wiping all your downloads? I'd be tempted to do this as I think compound updates over the last two years have caused a few issues (I've got the original steam deck)

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

SteamOS is immutable, you always get the same update no matter what you were running before. I think the only files that can get out of sync are in your home folder.

[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago

yeah. no need to reflash it.

[–] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ahh right thanks for confirming. When I last moved to beta, none of the buttons would work and I could only use the touchscreen. I thought that was quite odd considering beta seemed to work fine for others. Any idea what could've caused that?

[–] Escew@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mine does this after closing a game until I open the steam menu, then the buttons work again??? So weird.

[–] Link@rentadrunk.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I also get this issue. This seems to happen more often in games where steam input is configured to be a mouse instead of a gamepad.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The steam recovery media let's you reinstall just the OS while preserving user files.

As long as you haven't done anything too dramatic like converting your file system to BTRFS

Edit: This will downgrade you to a much older version of SteamOS though, from which you would then have to update back to current. This can be a problem because some early issues (like the OLED deck not being able to connect to wifi 6E networks) can make it frustrating to update.