Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
If your post is only relevant to one hardware device (Deck/Machine/Frame/etc) please specify which one as part of the title or by using a device flair.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.
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Serious Decky issues are rare. Usually when decky breaks, it just disappears from the deck until you manually reinstall/update it.
More rarely, a plugin will break steamOS. This gives a "Steam/Decky" has encountered a problem screen, with buttons to check for a decky update, disable Decky until next reboot, or uninstall the plugin that caused the crash. This is more serious, but is still extremely easy for users to deal with and get back to a working device.
I can't remember if there was ever a point where Decky broke worse than that, but generally it's pretty safe, especially if you're on stable SteamOS.