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A
antheas
OP
•
4/23/24, 3:36 PM
Using sudo is better
H
HikariKnight
@robinustream 👆 goverlay returning, so if you layered it, make sure you remove...
R
robinustream
•
4/23/24, 3:37 PM
thanks for the ping
R
robinustream
•
4/23/24, 3:37 PM
noted
A
antheas
Don't enable it
P
PacoA
•
4/23/24, 3:37 PM
There is a decky plugin that uses root
P
PacoA
•
4/23/24, 3:37 PM
I am not 100
% that
's the issue
P
PacoA
•
4/23/24, 3:37 PM
But it is not working for me
A
antheas
OP
•
4/23/24, 3:37 PM
You can always set a password for the root user afterwards
P
PacoA
•
4/23/24, 3:37 PM
Any guide
?
P
PacoA
Can I enable root account/user after install ?
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 3:37 PM
you never want a root accout
, period
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 3:38 PM
your user should be administrator and therefore able to sudo
P
PacoA
•
4/23/24, 3:38 PM
I don
't mind having it tbh
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 3:38 PM
we do not support it
A
Aru
•
4/23/24, 3:38 PM
decky should already have root access
, no
?
A
Aru
•
4/23/24, 3:38 PM
for plugins that request it
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 3:38 PM
it
's bad for your security
, and it invalidates any issue you open here
G
Geechan
•
4/23/24, 3:38 PM
You don
't need a root account because your main user has admin perms
G
Geechan
•
4/23/24, 3:39 PM
Any thing that asks for root can use sudo instead
G
Geechan
Any thing that asks for root can use sudo instead
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 3:39 PM
this
A
Aru
•
4/23/24, 3:39 PM
decky should already be configured for it too
A
Aru
decky should already be configured for it too
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 3:39 PM
right
, no root account on SteamOS
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 3:39 PM
there
's no decky loader plugin that needs that
A
Aru
•
4/23/24, 3:39 PM
root
? there
's a bunch of decky plugins that require root perms
, but decky supports the use case
A
Aru
•
4/23/24, 3:40 PM
and the plugin needs to specify that it requires root
A
Aru
root? there's a bunch of decky plugins that require root perms, but decky suppor...
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 3:40 PM
root perms
, not a root account
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 3:40 PM
there
's no root account on SteamOS so no decky plugin requires a root account
A
Aru
•
4/23/24, 3:40 PM
oh yeah
A
Aru
•
4/23/24, 3:40 PM
no root account needed
G
Geechan
•
4/23/24, 3:40 PM
Having a root account feels so antiquated now
G
Geechan
•
4/23/24, 3:41 PM
At least for desktop Linux
S
Smabe
•
4/23/24, 3:42 PM
so If I was a dummy and made a root account whats the correct way to remove it without breaking stuff
?
C
Cardiac
Only Starfield and Dragon's Dogma 2 are significantly behind.
S
Shiina
•
4/23/24, 3:43 PM
I have the opposite with starfield lol
K
Kyle Gospo
root perms, not a root account
P
PacoA
•
4/23/24, 3:47 PM
Ok
, will take a look then
A
antheas
OP
•
4/23/24, 3:51 PM
I want to say that creating a root account is essentially setting a root password
. So you just remove the password of the root account
But I know the set up script has gotten confused and ran as the root account multiple times
A
antheas
OP
•
4/23/24, 3:51 PM
I don
't think you can remove the root account
A
Aru
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1VTBWH6mXA
H
HikariKnight
•
4/23/24, 4:18 PM
i am surprised
, he read our documentation on stream
!
I
iMartyn
•
4/23/24, 4:20 PM
passwd -l root
passwd -l root
locks the root account
, that
's basically what most modern distros do
.
H
Heero
•
4/23/24, 4:22 PM
I have a question
: HDR seems to be broken in current Testing
-40
H
Heero
I have a question: HDR seems to be broken in current Testing-40
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 4:23 PM
what hardware
?
H
Heero
•
4/23/24, 4:23 PM
Anyone already knows about this
?
K
Kyle Gospo
what hardware?
H
Heero
•
4/23/24, 4:24 PM
Desktop PC
, AMD 7900XT
, Ryzen 7600x
(though this isn
’t important
)
. Running at UHD at a Samsung s95c
, 60
-120hz doesn
’t fix it
, Also deactivating vrr
H
Heero
Desktop PC, AMD 7900XT, Ryzen 7600x (though this isn’t important). Running at UH...
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 4:25 PM
you might want to test against stock fedora
, we aren
't shipping our own kernel yet so this is 100
% stock
& upstream behavior
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 4:25 PM
that you
're seeing
K
Kyle Gospo
you might want to test against stock fedora, we aren't shipping our own kernel y...
H
Heero
•
4/23/24, 4:26 PM
I didn
’t use gamescope
-Session yet and fedora 40 worked fine
H
Heero
I didn’t use gamescope-Session yet and fedora 40 worked fine
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 4:26 PM
yeah
, no clue then
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 4:26 PM
we aren
't modifying KDE or the kernel
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 4:26 PM
HDR is untouched from Stock F40
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 4:26 PM
and already confirmed working on our testing builds
H
Heero
•
4/23/24, 4:26 PM
Yeah that
’s why I
’m confused too
H
Heero
•
4/23/24, 4:27 PM
HDR does work
, that
’s correct
.
it
’s just not working correctly
. Example
: activating hdr in gamescope
-session works
, starting a game deactivated it though
.
H
Heero
HDR does work, that’s correct. 🙂 it’s just not working correctly. Example: acti...
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 4:28 PM
are you using proton experimental on that game
?
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