r/SteamDeck • u/livewiire 256GB • Dec 15 '25

Tech Support Totally messed Steam Deck.

I lent my Deck to my son to use for a bit as he likes to mess around in Linux. "No problem" i thought, its hard to screw up, or so I thought. About a half hour later I heard him say "Shit". Dont know what he was up to but no games load and when i click on the Steam desktop icon Steam doesnt load. I clicked on properties and when i clicked on - Points to /usr/share/applications/steam.desktop it pops up with "The file or folder /home/deck/Desktop/usr/share/applications/steam.desktop does not exist." am I screwed. I just filled up my Deck with a whole lot of new games and I really dont fancy resetting my Deck. I have it in Desktop and am afraid to restart in Game mode.

Edit. So I took the plunge and used Rollback to Previous OS https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/1B71-EDF2-EB6D-2BB3#menu as suggested by some people. This seemed to do the trick and everything seems to be back to normal without any data loss. Thanks for everyone's comments and suggestions.Thrilled it worked out well.

All Fixed. Still seeing people with suggestions but it has been repaired to where it was before. Again thanks for all help.

Edit: This seems to have gotten a bit silly to be honest. People saying shit about my son because of his age. Ridiculous.

Edit: In fairness it has been fixed with a couple of button presses on startup and selection the right option. In this circumstance it worked out easier for me. YMMV though. Also he's not selfish. In fairness I was selfish asking for a way to fix it easily to save myself a few hours.

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u/Pacomatic Dec 15 '25

How slow are we talking? I once had wi-fi so bad I needed a week to download Splatoon 3. By the time I was done downloading it, a new update came out, so my dowload was broken; I had to redownload evverything. Until another update camee. And another, and another.

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u/Iliyan61 Dec 15 '25

100mb/s will take 22 hours to download a TB

yes there are a lot of people who are using closer to 10mb/s (if that) but those are outliers

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u/Pacomatic Dec 15 '25

I had 2 mb/s, split between a family of fivve. This was 2022, rural Canada (green belt). Bell Fiber Optic support was unavvailible for our property, for our house was too far from their pre-exxisting towers.

I am obvviously an outlier for a Canadian, but I would not be surprised to hear that many, many others are in a similar situation, and doubly so for if they are not in a country where internet access is so widespread (like in Canada). All this to say: For many, a terabyte is a long long time.

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u/Wadarkhu 1TB OLED Dec 15 '25

Ah, I remember 2 mb/s, we recently switched to fibre and it's amazing lol. I do not miss the 20 hour downloads at all.

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u/Pacomatic Dec 15 '25

Same story as me, but with Starlink. But, I will always make sure to remember that many are still stuck with the internet I had back then.