Yeah, it’s sometimes hard to use other people’s config layouts for that reason. Even with being able to label the inputs on the “input overview” screen, it can be unclear how to use the more complex profiles. And many input profiles might require specific game settings to work properly (like small deadzone settings for gyro joystick aiming, etc).

A lot of times even if a game has a lot of community profiles available, I’ll end up making my own. That way there’s no question on how to use it, and I can tweak it as I go if I run into any issues.

Virtual Menus are great for any PC first games imo. Being able to setup direct weapon shortcuts (instead of cycling through) or having direct shortcuts to map/journal/inventory/etc is really nice. Also things like quicksave/quick load menus.

Tailscale was suggested above as an easier alternative to setting up a reverse proxy. If tailscale isn’t a good option, then I would push forward with getting a reverse proxy setup.

I’m willing to work past a lot of shortcomings when the alternative is $750. Plus anything learning how to overcome those shortcomings will have benefits beyond just setting up jellyfin.

“do you use KDE or Gnome?”

“Minecraft”

Valve famously has a flat management structure, meaning valve employees don’t have traditional bosses. The employees are generally self directed, choosing what projects they want to work on.

So something like this would be a Valve dev deciding the best use of his time for the day was to add SDL support for the Steam Controller. He did the work, didn’t have to request approval for the project, and Valve paid him to do it.

It may not be something that there was any organized, official push by valve to do. But their management structure encourages this kind of thing and pays for it.

They’ve released a couple firmware/steam updates for people having doubled inputs, so definitely make sure you have those all installed. A new firmware update for the controller was released last night.

Under Controller>Advanced settings in steam big picture mode, you can try forcibly updating all hardwired controllers.

You shouldn’t be having any signal issues at that range, so you either have something defective or some really bad signal interference. I’m leaning towards something being defective, because my puck doesn’t have line of sight, is immediately next to a router and a bunch of bluetooth devices, and hasn’t had any connection issues. You also mentioned the issues happening while wired, which definitely suggests a controller issue and not a connection problem.

Yes, you would have had to downloaded a recent update, and run it at least twice.

Thanks for the update! That’s really good to know.

Here’s the support page:

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/33E8-5EDF-24E6-4CFB

Flashing red should mean that the controller is in software update mode, trying to connect. I’d recommend restarting steam (or steamOS), and then plugging the controller straight into the usb C cable while it’s still off. If that doesn’t work, then you’ll probably just need to wait for Steam to get back in touch with you.

If steam support provides a button combination to reset the controller or something similar, please share it.

Yeah, I’m definitely not confirming it with my controller.

It also trys to steal passwords/keys/etc, the Russian roulette part is just extra for people in Israel.

Also I thought this part was interesting:

Special note for Israeli users: If the malware determines that your location is Israel (it does this via locale and timezone checks) then it has a 1:6 chance that it will play a loud siren sound and run rm -rf /, essentially attempting to wipe your filesystem.

There is a grub setting for that, but usually the motherboard bios/uefi is responsible for passing input devices on to grub. Other motherboards may not have this same issue.

The four models are probably 2 storage sizes, with or without an included controller.

It’s angled, but it’s also narrower than the deck, which can make angled grips more necessary. I’ve heard both sides, some people say the grip angle is more comfortable than the deck, others say it’s not angled enough to make up for how much skinnier it is.

For the GRUB issue, it was probably using the Steam controller as the primary keyboard. Without steam running, the controller works as keyboard and mouse, so you can navigate bios/etc with it. On the GRUB screen, you could have probably selected the boot up option with the controller.

I’m guessing by changing USB ports, you now have your regular keyboard on an “earlier” USB port, so it takes priority over the controller.

Same here, finally got picked up by the carrier end of day Friday, and then got an estimated delivery date today.

If you go into Big Picture mode in desktop, it’s basically the regular deck UI, QAM menu included.

That said, you can also open steam console in game mode, and view any errors there. Go to Settings>Developer Menu>Misc>Steam Console. This will add a console item to the standard steam menu, that will show all console logs after adding the console. Then they should be able to open the QAM menu and see if any specific errors show up.

Playable with Deck controls, but that’s probably through a community input profile.