A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.
Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
If you haven’t set a password before, then it should be the default one: empty. Then, to use sudo you will need to set one by using passwd command.
In case if the password was set in the past: the only way would be to run factory reset, or restore from image.
i tried running passwd deck then trying sudo passwd deck and it worked :D tysm
Booting from any rescue Linux system and removing or editing /etc/shadow in the overlay partition would work as well. No need for a factory reset.
You have to manually edit /etc/shaddow
Without sudo? :D
You have to boot from another OS, mount the drive, then do it. If its LUKS protected you gotta open that first.
Have you installed anything else on your deck already in desktop mode, like Decky loader, emudeck, cryoutilities/etc?
Some of those have an option to set a default password to something like "deck". If you clicked through the setup on those it might have set a password without you realizing.
edit: Decky loader can temporarily set the password to "Decky!". It's supposed to remove the temp password after installation, but that's worth trying if you installed Decky. Right now I don't see a default password for emudeck or cryoutilities, but it's possible other deck install scripts might set one.
i do have deckyloader, i also know it sets the password temporarily to "Decky!" i tried that and it didnt work D:, i didnt try the password "deck" yet i will try that in a sec (it didnt work either)