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.
[Controller] - Steam Controller 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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Testing might be in the beta branch?
So beta branch is their development branch. But who is doing the testing and where? If they have automated testing, the coverage sucks and they need better regression testing and to ideally follow test driven development where they add tests for every bug they fix.
Do you want to run on beta to see if they fixed some issue you have, but they broke something else that’s not broken on mainline? I’ve been there, done that. The reason there’s so many fixes lately is because they’re gearing up for Deckard release. I see no evidence that their development and testing practices have changed, and they need to or we’ll be right back where we were for the last several years of minor update breaking something major and not fixing it for months/ years.