I worry this may be some form of confirmation bias or something. Because at that I was like “huh, I hadn’t thought of that, but now that I do, I think you’re right! It HAS been slightly more lately!”

Then I realized that I’ve been purposely holding off updates since August, so it can’t be true haha.

I’m not saying the same happened to you, I’m just saying it happened to me, so it’s possible it’s happening to others 🤷‍♂️😂

I have one coming, I don’t think the area is that much smaller. The screen resolution being non native 720 bugs most people.

I’m excited because I just bought a broken-screen steam deck, so even with the high-ish cost ($130 ish for the etched version), I’ll still come out at the end with a premium deck experience for less than base model deck 🤷‍♂️

Thanks for the tips! I’m not gonna attempt it till I’m back home Sunday or Monday night

I bought a day one Deck. I didn’t think the Delta fan was that bad. I honestly never thought about it. But then one day it died. I replaced it with a huaying, and the difference is definitely noticeable. It was a pleasant surprise, even though I usually game with headphones anyway 🤷‍♂️

I bought a broken steam deck to fix for cheap. Needs a screen, left bumper, and theoretically a joystick, though the joystick seems fine to me.

Halfway through the process I realized the previous owner left half an SD card in the slot. Crazy. Haven’t had time to attempt removing it yet. Hopefully the slot is ok.

Small point, just for the sake of discussion, since you seem knowledgeable and I’m sure you already know:

Upgrading your storage doesn’t strictly require starting over. When I went from 512 to 2tb, I just cloned the drive, then expanded the main partition to fit. Worked like a charm 👌

For most people though yeah it’s probably easier starting over than fussing with cloning.

I’ll be cloning my buddy’s 64gb drive as soon as he buys something bigger.

Glad you found it, and glad it worked for you too!

Let me know!

That makes sense, definitely weirdness. Funny it didn’t bother it the other way around, the other deck is fine 🤔

At any rate, I’m done worrying about it haha

Thanks for the write-up!

I might try bazzite at a later date, but for now, Max_P suggested deleting the pipewire and wireplumber folders and restarting, and that’s solved my problem for now, thankfully!

Not sure if this will solve your problems as well, crackling sounds like hardware to me. But Max_P suggested deleting the pipewire and wireplumber folders and restarting, that fixed it!

I wasn’t sure how to do that, but it’s fixed just now.

Max_P suggested deleting the pipewire and wireplumber folders and restarting, that did the trick!

Thanks! Funny enough, that was my first assumption,I was worried I ruined something. But taking it apart everything looked fine.

In the end Max_P gave me the solution, deleting the pipewire and wireplumber folders and restarting. Worked like a charm!

I did those steps to no avail, unfortunately.

However, deleting the pipewire and wireplumber folders and restarting did the trick!

This was the solution, deleting the pipewire and wireplumber folders and restarting was the solution.

To be clear though, I definitely swapped from one LCD model to another, so I’m still not sure why it was failing 🤷‍♂️

Glad it’s fixed though!

You absolute legend, this was it, now my headphones work perfectly, thank you!

Ok thanks I’ll check it out tonight. That menu definitely already looks different than what I was seeing, from my memory anyway

Nice! I bought this but I haven’t played it yet. I’m still playing Rob Scallon’s Fretless, it’s also music based. All the attacks and defenses are tied to the music, it’s hard to explain. It’s a turn based RPG during battles, but it’s also so much more. Highly recommend.

Funny, both games are made by musical YouTubers, but that’s not a diss, it’s a compliment. Games made by real people, with a vision for how they wanted it made.

No worries.

Yeah I’ve used Bluetooth before, but the lag is always noticeable for me. I can ignore it on something like HZD or HFW, but I’ve been playing Fretless lately, so musical timing is key.

My wired headphones always stay in the steam case waiting for me, never need charged or fussed with, they just work. Plus I got an old school pair, big drivers that sit in your ear, not in your ear canal, so I can still hear the world around me without needing passthrough or whatever it’s called. The only loss is a little less bass 🤷‍♂️

Is bazzite that good?

I admit I haven’t looked extremely deeply into it, other than that it’s steamos for things that aren’t steam decks.

There’s gotta be some caveats, otherwise why are people so excited about stock steamos coming to more devices natively?

I’m not against it, honestly I’m considering it, I just wanna be informed