recently got a steam deck and theres a bug with the deck that causes it to fuck up the partition on your SD card when first formatting
I am a sysadmin so I figured itd be no problem just wiping that partition through whatever CLI steamos uses
WRONG
first off i had to figure out the command to show disks so i dont accidentally format my boot drive
turns out its "lsblk" for whatever reason, i will literally never remember that
after that I had to figure out the command to format the sd card, which i found on the steamdeck subreddit
that didnt work because the drive was mounted, okay nbd ill just unmount it then run the command. I unmount using the GUI and it then immediately remounts! I think okay, steam is running, its probably doing that. I close every background process I can and still have the same issue, great. I then spend half an hour trying to found how to unmount an SD card on Steam Deck and come up with nothing because its supposed to just work like every computer i've ever used does, you just press unmount.
I get frustrated and take a stab at it on windows:
open up CMD
DISKPART
LIST DISK
SELECT DISK 5
CLEAN
voila.
long story short linux's documentation is garbage and thats why most end users dont like it. formatting an SD card on windows is LITERALLY in the right click menu.
formatting an SD card on windows is LITERALLY in the right click menu.
You're comparing apples to bullets here. The reason the Steam Deck fucked you was because of a bug, so what happens when Windows bugs out while trying to format a drive?
someone else on the internet probably knows how to fix it. The steam deck didnt fuck me linux did, the formatting fucking up wasnt the problem it was fixing the fuck up that was the problem, why cant i just right click a drive to format it? Theres a lot of stuff on linux that is far too complicated compared to windows. I was legit completely baffled when I learned manjaro doesnt have a built in equivalent to event viewer, how does anyone troubleshoot anything without an event viewer! Windows has documentation to walk you through anything and the documentation is usually pretty robust.
i got a good one to piss of linux bros
recently got a steam deck and theres a bug with the deck that causes it to fuck up the partition on your SD card when first formatting
I am a sysadmin so I figured itd be no problem just wiping that partition through whatever CLI steamos uses
WRONG
first off i had to figure out the command to show disks so i dont accidentally format my boot drive
turns out its "lsblk" for whatever reason, i will literally never remember that
after that I had to figure out the command to format the sd card, which i found on the steamdeck subreddit
that didnt work because the drive was mounted, okay nbd ill just unmount it then run the command. I unmount using the GUI and it then immediately remounts! I think okay, steam is running, its probably doing that. I close every background process I can and still have the same issue, great. I then spend half an hour trying to found how to unmount an SD card on Steam Deck and come up with nothing because its supposed to just work like every computer i've ever used does, you just press unmount.
I get frustrated and take a stab at it on windows:
open up CMD
DISKPART
LIST DISK
SELECT DISK 5
CLEAN
voila.
long story short linux's documentation is garbage and thats why most end users dont like it. formatting an SD card on windows is LITERALLY in the right click menu.
You're comparing apples to bullets here. The reason the Steam Deck fucked you was because of a bug, so what happens when Windows bugs out while trying to format a drive?
someone else on the internet probably knows how to fix it. The steam deck didnt fuck me linux did, the formatting fucking up wasnt the problem it was fixing the fuck up that was the problem, why cant i just right click a drive to format it? Theres a lot of stuff on linux that is far too complicated compared to windows. I was legit completely baffled when I learned manjaro doesnt have a built in equivalent to event viewer, how does anyone troubleshoot anything without an event viewer! Windows has documentation to walk you through anything and the documentation is usually pretty robust.