Currently, swapping the battery is one of the most complex repairs on the Deck,
Is it really? I know there's some glue holding the battery itself, but otherwise my understanding is that the battery is really easy to access.
Make sure windows was shut down all the way. Normally when you shutdown windows, it only hibernates and it locks it's partitions to prevent editing. I tried installing Zorin for a family member recently, and it couldn't install until I booted back into windows and shut it down fully.
To shutdown fully, in windows you need to either hold shift while clicking the shutdown button, or open the run box and run the command shutdown -s -t 00
It happens to the best of us.
First, I would go to https://packetlosstest.com/ on your deck in desktop mode and see if it shows any issues. They have some game presets you can pick to hopefully test network traffic use similar to the games you're having issues with.
Once you have a baseline test of how your internet is performing, some basic things to try to improve it are:
- Reboot deck and wifi router.
- Switch between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz
- Try playing closer to the router and see if the lag goes away.
- Disable the wifi power management setting on the deck
Even if nothing has changed with the Deck and router, it's possible another device in the house is causing interference, especially on 2.4Ghz networks. If the problem is something else causing interference, it can be really confusing to troubleshoot from the network side of things because the problems will be very intermittent.
Oh my bad, I accidentally skipped over that.
The default scroll settings now is circular scroll (where you move your finger in a circle on the track pad). If you don't know it's circular it will make it seem like it changes directions at times.
It used to default to swipe up/down to scroll, and the change in defaults has confused a lot of people.
If you have GE-proton installed, you can easily select it for any steam game by opening the game properties, checking "force compatibility tool", and selecting the GE-proton version you want.
The tool ProtonUp-qt will also let change the setting per game as long as steam is closed. Just open "game list" and set the proton version per game.
To be fair, this isn't normal proton doing it. In general GE-proton exists to do things that go against the design philosophy of regular proton or to include licenses libraries that can't be normally included.
I don't see any mention of it in the changelog, but I would expect there to be a launch option to disable this functionality as well.
Honestly I don't remember having that issue, but it's been awhile so it's hard to say.
Main downside is that having swappable components adds size and cost, which is why laptops are so much less modular than full size PCs. For something like the Deck, which is trying to be as small and cheap as possible, I doubt we'll see anything modular for a long time.
Valve could possibly sell upgraded motherboards that you could use with your original screen/etc. However before ifixit sold deck parts, there was a leak of the upcoming parts and prices. At the time, replacement motherboards were planned to be sold, but they planned to sell the motherboard for $350 (when the cheapest deck was $400). Ultimately they ended up never selling the motherboard, which makes sense when considering how expensive it was compared to the overall price of the unit.
That's odd, I played Control on my deck and it ran great. You should definitely be able to run it on DX11, maybe try a different proton version if it's refusing to launch.
No, I straight up had two different installation media's fail until I went back and shut down windows fully. I've never run into that before on an install before.
First I tried ZorinOS, and it would fail to even boot into the live environment. I tried multiple times and even made a new install media. Then I tried fedora silverblue, it would get into the install environment but couldn't do any kind of partitioning etc to the drive. I then rebooted to windows, shut it down fully, and tried again. This time fedora could edit the drive partitions, and zorin could load the live environment and install.
Previously I've had issues with shared drives being locked by windows, but this was the first time I've ever had an install fail because windows wasn't shutdown fully. I don't usually dual boot these days either though (I was setting up this computer for family) so I figured maybe something had changed with newer versions of windows or device security.