The Jackbox Megapicker was corrupting SteamOS and forcing people to reinstall the entire OS. It’s been fixed with a hot fix for now, but probably safest to avoid it until they get this all sorted out.

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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    2 months ago

    The system itself is immutable, but the configuration and data isn’t. If it crashes the Steam UI by some kind of data corruption issue that isn’t handled well, you can still end up with a malfunctioning device. Reinstalling the OS probably isn’t necessary, but it’s a lot easier than flashing Linux to a boot drive and manually browsing through the files to get rid of the broken entry.

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      2 months ago

      Ah… so I guess the gamescope session would fail bc steam fails, and leave the user no way to change to desktop/plasma session. And yeah, steam configs would be accessible in user space as it’s not system level. Yikes all around.