Many issues are occurring such as
-audio not working
-mic not working
-SD card not being recognized
-200/400 mhz bug
-docking issues
-reverting the update deleting SD card files from some posts I’ve seen
-some games performing worse or some not working at all
Probably recommend just holding off on this update and wait an update or two. I understand this update comes with the SMT fix and Color Saturation and better gpu performance but these bugs are pretty big negatives.
I love how community downvote these concerns to hell. TBH my excitement changed to disappointment. Valve pickled this update for almost a year. Obviously (now) waiting for release of second SD revision, only to release it suddenly from preview straight to stable (no beta lol) ignoring several issues (you can check on their tracker). I used to Blizzard doing things like that all the time but not Valve.
Preview is the OS beta channel. This may be confusing to some, so let me explain.
First of all we need to separate SteamOS into the client (Steam itself) and the OS. Both have their own branches.
The client has both the stable and the beta channel.
The OS has the following channels:
You can see these separate channel pickers when enabling developer options and the advanced update channels option there.
By default SteamOS simplifies the channel picker into 3 preset options:
This means that the default beta option in SteamOS does in fact not include any OS beta. Only the Steam client beta.
The preview channel or otherwise known as SteamOS beta channel has had 3.5 in beta for over 2 months. Updates have trickled down in from channels in the order beta candidate -> beta -> stable release candidate -> Stable. This release has been through 3 levels of testing channels before landing in stable.
I don’t mind the opinion that 3.5 may have been undercooked to some as they indeed held on to a deadline with the OLED launch. I just want to correct the claim about a lack of beta.
It’s so cringe too scrolling down and seeing 5 posts at 0 with like 10+ comments all saying that the new update is being buggy is fine and not acknowledging things like the microSD card wiping bug, and conveniently omitting that Valve skipped the beta channel entirely
Really they skipped it? I haven’t noticed much problems accpet for desktop mode being bugy. I used too have shortcuts and now they are buggy and won’t show up. The performances have been improved from what I noticed . The SD card thing is a serious .