A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.
Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.
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:
[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.
Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
I'm not sure exactly what causes this, but you can work around it as long as you can actually run commands as root (i.e. using sudo) in the terminal.
The command to add a new user is adduser.
The command to add a user to the administrators group (i.e. give them the ability to use sudo) is usermod -aG wheel.
These commands should be run as root by prepending sudo.
I'm trying to sudo in a user or elevate deck to admin. Either way if I try to sudo anything, I get asked " [sudo]password for deck: " and when I put in a password it says " deck is not in the sudoers file. "
So I haven't been able to do anything worthwhile, yet.
If you know the root password, then you can switch to the account called root using the su root command.
In Linux there is always a user called root, which is the only account allowed to perform most system management tasks. The sudo command just executes a commend as root. Most of the time you don't need to actually sign into the root account, just use sudo, but you can actually sign into it in the terminal as it is a real bona fide user account.
The sudoers file is located at /etc/sudoers. Do keep in mind that this file should not be edited directly. You can use the cat command which will print the content of a file to the terminal. So try cat /etc/sudoers.
I'm unable to su root or access the sudoers file. I'm going to try using a steam os image file on a flash drive to reinstall my steam deck os.
Check on Reddit, somebody posted a tutorial on how to reset the desktop user password on the Steam Deck.
I've done that reset like 3 times now. If I open Konsole and check my password, it's correct and will also let me change it within there. But when I go to users or try to update things in the normal desktop GUI the password doesn't work. I'm not sure how to force updates or modify users just within Konsole.
well if you want to update the flatpaks, then you can use flatpak update --noninteractive. there's also a deckyloader plugin (I forget the name) that updates them from game mode automatically on whatever schedule you set.
if it's the system, then that updates outside of desktop mode from the setting page.
Negative. Because deck (user) doesn't have admin privileges all of the update attempts failed.