Valve sure do love their funny code-names don't they. Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.6.15 Beta: Zoomer Edition has been released with a bug-fix.
There's only one single fix with this release noting:
- Fixed a crash when using the magnifier tool while game recording is active
To access it you need to opt into either the Preview or Beta branches from Settings > System > System Update Channel.
We're getting really close to the stable SteamOS 3.6 release now, which has shaped up very nicely, as I've been using it constantly since the initial preview release. Once released for everyone you'll get a lot of good enhancements overall including:
- Updated to a more recent Arch Linux base and updated KDE Plasma desktop mode.
- Improved session recovery speed after GPU crashes.
- Enabled support for Bluetooth A2DP and BAP profiles.
- Improved display uniformity, under some conditions (Mura Compensation).
- support for some HDMI CEC features in the Deck Dock.
- BIOS overclocking controls on Steam Deck LCD.
- + much more.
Some you may have missed, popular articles from the last month:
Quoting: CybolicAnother big change in 3.6.15 is the better support for screen shaders. Currently, this version is needed in order to test full game-mode XR display support (i.e. virtual monitor, smooth follow, SBS depth support, etc.).
There's more information about it on the LinuXR Discord server.
Wow, nice catch!
I'm super excited for everyone to get to try the Game Mode support.
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Quoting: KlaasI've switched about a month ago and experienced a partial breakage. No chance booting into game mode, due to an infinite logon spinning wheel, but switching to desktop mode worked reliably. But Steam was completely broken in desktop mode as well. I ended up renaming the Steam folder in $HOME – that fixed the problem. Later I moved back my data from the broken Steam installation to the working one piece by piece.
So the issue I had was not related to hardware at all, but to the Steam client since it is so heavily integrated into SteamOS.
I don't know what to say, I've been on the Beta channel since I got my Steam Deck late last year and I haven't experienced any breakage. Maybe Valve does region-based rollouts?
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Philadelphus 48 minutes ago
I think they misspelled "Boomer Edition" there – I doubt too many Zoomers need the magnifier tool. 
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