SteamOS 3.4 Now Stable, Updates Arch Base, Allows Screen Tearing, Enables TRIM (And Much More!)

SteamOS 3.4 has now reached the stable branch. I’m not going to re-hash what I’ve already said about it, but as a quick refresh, here’s a few of the new features:
- update to the Arch base; Plasma, Mesa, GLIBC, and more software have been updated
- KDE Connect is now included
- tons of bug fixes, ranging from graphics driver crashes to input to audio
- new firmware for docking station
- you can now force vsync off by enabling screen tearing
- level 2 MangoHUD now goes across the screen rather than going down; perfect for games that use 16:9
- TRIM has been re-enabled
- eject option added for removable drives
- automatic mounting of ext4 external drives
- support for 8BitDo Ultimate wireless controller dongle
Two hotfixes were added later on to “address a regression in how SD cards were handled” and to “fix an issue with HDMI/DisplayPort audio going to sleep after being idle on external displays.” And I guess hardware encoding for remote play works now.
CryoByte33, author of the CryoUtilities script, has added a friendly reminder that “you need to check that the VRAM setting persisted in BIOS and can optionally disable my TRIM-on-schedule,” since TRIM has already been re-enabled with this release.
See the full patch notes on Steam.
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