Valve switched SteamOS's Wi-Fi backend for new installs, and your upgrade keeps the old one

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by UploadVR / Road to VR / MIXED at 20 Oct, 10:52 UTC

SteamOS 3.9 hands a freshly installed machine a different Wi-Fi backend, and it does not touch a machine that got there by updating. Valve's SteamOS 3.9.3 beta note prints the consequence in those words: "Known issue: Existing installations will continue to use iwd unless manually enabled in…

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• T2Valve switched SteamOS's Wi-Fi backend for new installs, and your upgrade keeps the old oneUploadVR / Road to VR / MIXED20 Oct, 10:52