Mine’s not perfectly flat but it’s too minor for me to RMA that lol.

Not without the required port forwarding. Steam Link wasn’t really built for remote play over the Internet. I’d be careful with port forwarding as you’re exposing the device’s port to the Internet, there are some security risks to doing this.

Here’s an article regarding the SSD used: https://kotaku.com/steam-deck-valve-specs-components-ssd-downgrade-pc-1849126677

It seems that there’s no additional information about these drives but you can tell if yours run PCIe 3.0 x4 vs. PCIe 3.0 x2 based on the P/N.

The 512 GB OLED Deck that YouTuber Taki Udon seems to have the PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD but YMMV…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYtRGQdhytc

Ally if you prefer performance over battery life, ability to run Windows out of the box (with better support than Valve supports Windows on Deck) and the ability to attach an eGPU.

Steam Deck OLED if you like SteamOS, want better battery, larger community and like Steam Input.

Personally even though the Ally is cheaper right now than the 512GB OLED, I still went with the OLED because I know Valve would support the Deck, it has a larger community, and I prefer Linux over Windows and I prefer better battery as the heavy lifting stuff can just be streamed from my PC.

Mine shipped on Monday, FedEx seems to be pretty quick sending it from Carol Stream. It’s in the GTA right now, hopefully they pull through and hopefully I’ll get the Deck today as FedEx promised.

Seems rather random which order they fulfill first it seems…

Mine shipped from Carol Stream as well but I think much of the issues are the carriers, seems like UPS & GLS seems to be causing issues for the SD community. Mine shipped via FedEx to Canada, let’s see if FedEx pulls through as they’re suppose to deliver mine today, it’s already here in Canada out for delivery.

I guess one way is to create a mnt folder in your home directory and create a BASH script that runs during login and see if you can mount SSHFS as a regular user. If not, you might need to run as Sudo. Haven’t tested it but in theory it should work…

The Legion Go like all Windows handheld are basically laptops in a gaming handheld form factor. You can install any OS on it and as long as Microsoft continues to support Zen 4 chips down the road, you can upgrade the underlying OS.

Now, what’s not known is how long Lenovo is going to support Legion Space and if they’d offer drivers for newer versions of Windows down the road, especially if the new OS requires new drivers if Microsoft decides to change to a newer driver model or what not like they did with Vista for instance.

At least it has been shipped, seems like they haven’t shipped any Canadian orders so far…

Looks like the amdgpu driver is hitting a major exception relating to the GPU itself and crashed. Try restarting the device and if it’s persistent, try reinstalling the OS and if that doesn’t fix the issue, contact Valve, you might need an RMA.

Does this happen with only 1 game or does this happen with multiple games?

Should be region dependent. Last time I saw them in stock in Canada was when they announced the OLED decks, took about 2 days or so for the refurb units to be sold out.

If you like Halo and Portal, there’s Splitgate which is Halo with portals. It’s a free to play FPS with native Linux support.

They’ve limited it to 1 Steam Deck per account per week. They also said that they expect to have enough stock to meet demand but if they don’t, they’ll put up a reservation system similar to one used when the SD originally launched.

Without accepting the keys, it won’t install the package and since it’s a dependency that the apps you want to install, it errors out because it can’t install the dependency.

You’ll need to answer yes to the PGP key to install the dependent package. However, as always, make sure it’s a trustworthy key before installing.

It’s generally not recommended to turn off the immutable filesystem on SteamOS unless you know your way around Linux.

Steam Link wasn’t really built to stream outside of your local network. Opening ports randomly on your home Internet is not usually recommended due to security reasons and piping it through a VPN adds latency.

Personally I’d get a Steam Deck or any of the Windows handheld device instead if you travel often. Keep in mind that Microsoft Store games won’t work on the Steam Deck (except for in Windows and at that point, just get a Windows handheld).

What are you looking to do? SteamOS is Arch based so .deb wouldn’t work. .tar is just an archive.

If you need to install Linux software, best to stick to Flatpak packages via the Discover store.

You can either put in your existing SSD to the new Deck or just do a drive clone via CloneZilla or dd if you don’t want to manually set everything up again.

Not Office 365 itself but you can always use the web version of Office 365 which has most of the features anyways. It works very well.

For an offline solution, look to LibreOffice.

I mean, we don’t ask laptop manufacturers to do this, why are we asking Valve for this? Valve has stated that they treat this like a PC just in a different form factor.

Keep in mind that even though there’s no major performance upgrade, much of the Deck OLED was redesigned from the ground up. They’d pretty much have to rebuild your Deck if they offered an “upgrade” program that you’re asking for. The internals are very much different compared to the original Deck.

Valve already pretty much stated that the base model pricing was “painful” to get to US $399 when it launched but they had to do it to compete for the masses especially those comparing it to the Switch pricing. Considering the massive redesign for the SD OLED, I’m not surprised that they only relegated it to the midtier & up for the OLED upgrades. OLED panels also cost more to produce as well.