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Correction: The GPL gives you the green light to install SteamOS on your computer to create your own steam machine. Valve has no say in the matter. It's cute of the article to think otherwise though!
Valve specifically released a new installation image that comes with an installer, has added hardware support for non-deck hardware and discrete graphics cards, and has officially updated their support documents to say that it's supported on more hardware.
You may have a right to install it before, but that doesn't mean it would have worked or been a good experience.
Oh yeah, the content of the article is newsworthy, but the headline annoys me—nothing newsworthy imo
Ahckchually...
guilty lol
AMD only for now.
AMD only forever unless you want to reinstall nvidia drivers every month, because the cunts will never support linux properly
Tbh not even the fucking Windows drivers work properly either. In all my years of gaming every single time I’ve had an issue with my Nvidia GPU it’s the fucking drivers not working properly. Ranging from wild performance benches in games that only work on one specific driver, but fucks up the rest of my library, to crashes that cause me to force restart.
Once I switched over to AMD with my 580 back in the day, drivers have been absolutely seamless. Fuck that DLSS shit and fuck Nvidia. I just want my $500 GPU to work properly.
To work properly, and not catch on fire... Yea
The open source Nvidia drivers are coming along nicely I hear.
I'll believe it when I see it
I have an HTPC I put together running EndeavourOS with an RTX 2060 Super. Haven't had a single issue with it in the ~6 months I've had it up and running. Handles every game I've thrown at it really well
Where did you hear it? The only I read was NVIDIA driver support for the Steam OS, not this year btw, but nothing about open source drivers.
Mainly just that there's constant improvements happening. I'm not sure how far behind it still is, but constant improvements are nice.
For example, I saw a story in my RSS feeds this morning that the open source Nvidia driver just got DLSS support.
We could always do this, by the way. SteamOS has been available since the release of the Steam Deck. The main drawback is that core updates will wipe a bunch of changes you've made to your OS. I got tired of reinstalling AUR and a bunch of other things every month, so I changed distros.
Once that issue goes away, I'll likely switch back.
What did you switch to? I want to get away from windows and rn my main contender is Bazzite, but i wouldnt mind a non Fedora alternative...
I like both Mint and Zorin. Once I learned you can make your desktop environment whatever you want, I became less concerned about which specific Ubuntu distro I use, because I just want KDE Plasma. Kubuntu seems like a great option. Bazzite also seems good, but I haven't tried it yet and I like to tinker every once in a while.
I dont think thats really an issue and more so a design choice to keep steam os immutable. I doubt that'll change since it does make it much harder to break the system.
On immutable fedora, I can layer packages. Is this not possible on SteamOS?
Yep. I think its actually pretty ideal for a pure gaming machine that lives under the TV. If I were going to build a machine for that I would go with SteamOS.
Need to make all changes through ansible, then you just run one job post update :)
My understanding is SteamOS was lacking hardware support for most devices, and that they've been slowly fixing this. It's been mostly functional for awhile now, but used to be completely broken, and it's only now that Valve is saying it's actually ready for most AMD devices.
It's part of why people had needed to use things like Bazzite/ChimeraOS on other gaming handhelds, because bare SteamOS wouldn't work. There were things like hardcoded support for just the Van Gogh chipset, hardcoded TDP management that would cause system crashes on different hardware, no support for network devices, etc.
Bazzite is the same way. It's an immutable OS
You can layer packages with rpm-ostree on bazzite tho, which do persist through updates. As far as I know, steam os has no such thing.
They should at least allow us to select the hard drive where we want to install the system. It’s completely hostile to multi-drive systems.
The brand new SteamOS image apparently does have an installer, but I'm not sure what installation options it has since I haven't tried it.
Hopefully it does support drives/partitions better than the previous recovery image did.
I will try it out today and let you know
They should pay someone to finalize the jailbreak of the PS5, because SteamOS should run great on it if you have a hacked console.
We shouldn’t need a jailbreak.
If Apple has to allow 3rd party stores, why not Sony?
There were a case back in the days of PS3, where sony removed ability to run linux from new versions of console. They were sued and lost, but still decided to pay the fine, rather than returning functionality.
The main issue as I see it, is that they sell consoles as cheap as possible (previously they even sold them at a loss) and then return such investment by selling you games and subscription. By opening ability to install linux, not only they will loss profit from upper mentioned part on existing devices, but there a chance people will start buying PS5 to use as a regular desktop or general server or whatever, due to being simply cheapest prebuild option available for such specs. Same point was rised by Valve actually, they too was afraid that if they start selling gabebox at loss, people will buy them for anything, but playing games.
All that being said, fuck sony, microsoft and any other big company, that locks it's hardware. PS4 still have usable x86 hardware, but soon will be a landfill, cause you can't really do anything with, other than play ps4 games.
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just use bazzite and live in the future
This would make me use it again, it's just gathering dust since I have a gaming laptop (bought on sale years ago, much better than the ps5), but mostly just use blender and watch tv, would be sick if it made it so I can play simracing games on it with my moza wheel because I never want to close out of my projects on my laptop.
It'd be nice to use it as a homeserver too, just leave it connected to the router and throw some selfhosted apps on there or whatever. Be so much more useful as another linux pc now that I don't really game and if I do it's never an exclusive. Just don't care for linear single player story games.
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Gotta put in on my Steam Deck
Dude that'd be so sick!
Have someone managed to jailbreak it?
Wasn't that always allowed?
It wasn't officially supported for a long time even if they never stopped you. No real installer, etc. But now they started adding a lot more driver support even for hardware they aren't going to use, which you only do if you want to let people use 3rd party hardware
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Love it, giving us an easy arch-based gaming distro basically. Now they just gotta give us half-life 3 as well.
This appears to be the page to pay attention to for actually doing this. https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/65B4-2AA3-5F37-4227
It appears support is not yet there, but is intended to be.
Support started with 3.8 release. It might say steam deck in the file name, but as long as the version is 3.8.xx then it should be good.
Direct Link to download: https://steamdeck-images.steamos.cloud/steamdeck/20260618.10/steamdeck-oobe-repair-20260618.10-3.8.10.img.zip
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