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Did so. I just switched to Gnome this month to give it a fair shot. Now I can't wait for 42, missing real dark mode :-(.

Mine's all good, as far as I can tell.

The laptop/handheld option for "Main gaming machine" is a little odd in my case since I use a GPD Win Max 2021, and it's technically both. However, I've set it as handheld because if you're using the in-built gamepad you have to use it in that format, and most of what I play requires that.

I hope that that's ok, but if it would be better set as laptop I'll change it.

Sorry for not being able to update mine for many years. Hope this year can get a decent (with decent price) gpu or/and steamdeck.

If you're okay with running a beta release of Fedora you can already upgrade to Fedora 36 and get GNOME 42. The official beta release iso should be coming tomorrow.

I've had no issues upgrading to a beta release in my years of using Fedora.

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We're going to be adding in some Steam Deck related questions too. What do you want to see?

Most played game on Deck or the number of games installed? I can potentially see disk size + external storage capacity breakdowns being interesting.


Last edited by drlamb on 28 March 2022 at 11:29 am UTC

If you're okay with running a beta release of Fedora you can already upgrade to Fedora 36 and get GNOME 42. The official beta release iso should be coming tomorrow.

I've had no issues upgrading to a beta release in my years of using Fedora.

Thought about it already, have to read into how to upgrade to beta or in general fedora releases (I am pretty new to Fedora), I am currently reluctant to reinstall again.

But if I am not mistaken it's less than a month away from release, I think my eyes probably will survive that. Maybe. Hopefully.

We're going to be adding in some Steam Deck related questions too. What do you want to see?

Primary steam deck setup: standalone/handheld or docked with external peripherals


(aka, do you use steam deck primarily as a handheld device, plugging it in only to charge it, or do you primarily use it as a desktop, unplugging it only when on the go?)

We're going to be adding in some Steam Deck related questions too. What do you want to see?

I guess the most matching question for most wannabe Deck owners is "When is you delivery to be expected?" :D

If you're okay with running a beta release of Fedora you can already upgrade to Fedora 36 and get GNOME 42. The official beta release iso should be coming tomorrow.

I just used this documentation to upgrade to fc36 pre-release: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/dnf-system-upgrade/

If I understood it correctly it put me on some branch where I am on fc36 now and I won't even need to do another upgrade from beta to release because if the branch becomes stable dnf will do that for me.

Dark mode looks good, I like the dual wallpaper thing.

May need to switch back to Xorg though, vscode is not working in Wayland unless you --enable-features=Vulkan which will get overwritten on every code update. But that's only a selection on login anyway :D.

I am not really sure but I think we see a downside of client side window decorations now where a lot of apps do not respect the adwaita theming, thus making apps look even more out of place if they have not been updated and having white title bars instead of using dark ones.

Or just GTK themes are not applied properly for dark mode.


Last edited by STiAT on 29 March 2022 at 12:17 am UTC

We're going to be adding in some Steam Deck related questions too. What do you want to see?

Hmm, maybe add "Steam Deck" to "Main gaming machine" category, along with desktop and laptop? Maybe if you select "Steam Deck" as your main machine it auto-fills all the information it can for you? Other than that, there's not that much to customize about the Deck compared to a desktop…maybe if you've stuck with SteamOS 3 or have another OS (whatever that might be) on it?

I tried Plasma+Wayland+Nvidia a week ago, and it has some glitches Plasma had on X a few years ago.

Actually, switching the GTK theme in gnome tweaks to adwaita-dark does the trick. No idea why the "dark mode" does not set it for legacy applications, but that may be an incentive to gnome devs to actually adopt (the "we do stuff, you adopt and we don't care" attitude they showed in the past, not caring for the actual user experience. I think it bad practice though in terms of consistency while I understand wanting to push applications to use the new adwaita theming to be consistent with the rest, but I think at least minimal compatibility could have been kept.

Though, of course the incentive for developers to adopt would be less.

I do not understand the issue of them not deploying a systray either, relying on a plugin. Legacy support cut down (which pretty much comes down to fedora defaults) is a bit crap.

I think Gnome and Fedora defaults are at fault here. I understand the incentive of not doing stuff to make people migrate, but actually... that's a little bit much on the user.

By now I really got adopted to the Gnome (default) workflow though, and I have to say .. I expected it to be terrible by the description, and it isn't, it' actually pretty great. I though I could not live with the app switch mechanic, and it turns out - I do like it. Especially since I can keep one screen the same (mostly docs and shell), and switch applications (or rather activities) just on my primary screen pretty efficiently switching between the different applications (or the library and application in two source code editors) while keeping the shell and docs on screen. That really helps my workflow.


Last edited by STiAT on 30 March 2022 at 12:11 am UTC