Tucked into their FAQ about the Steam Machine release was a mention about making your own Steam Machine by installing steamOS to a computer you already have. AMD only for now.
When they release steamOS for ARM, I’ll throw a party
When the Steam Frame comes out we should get an ARM SteamOS recovery image, but it will probably only be for the Frame hardware. It’s possible that Valve will have prioritized wider hardware support for it though, since that’s something they’ve been actively working on with regular SteamOS.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
I prepped for this a long while. Right down to having an AMD CPU and AMD rdna 2 GPU.
Should i put this in my laptop? It’s on Ubuntu lts right now and standby is janky.
Try Bazzite
For a full desktop experience, something like Bazzite will be better.
That said standby/sleep issues can be nasty to track down, hopefully swapping distros will fix it, but be prepared to maybe have to deal with it on other distros as well. I’m in the middle of having to fix an issue with some ASIX usb network drivers on my desktop, where a recent update started causing loss of network and other issues after sleep.
Gotta put in on my Steam Deck
Have someone managed to jailbreak it?
Dude that’d be so sick!
Wasn’t that always allowed?
Allowed but janky, this is probably a more polished installer.
What’s been janky about it? I have it installed on a custom build since like February, never had any hiccups, besides the same rare issues on my steam deck (some occasional sound issues when switching between desktop and game mode, recently now solved I think). It’s otherwise been a flawless experience. Config is pure AMD : 5800X + 7600 XT 16GB with 16GB RAM. I was just hoping to get a steam controller but that proved harder than expected :(
I think some hardware configs are harder to use, like if you have Nvidia.
Sure, but that has not changed with this official enablement, or has it?
Have they not improved driver support as part of this?
I see, and yes, you needed some technical savvyness (is that a word?) to do this on your own before
“Savvy” is both the noun for the trait and the adjective for someone who possesses it.
They only had the old SteamOS available for installing to anything but a Steam Deck. But they had said the current SteamOS was going to be available for all PCs a long while back, anyway.
Allowed and available, but not endorsed.
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
Love it, giving us an easy arch-based gaming distro basically. Now they just gotta give us half-life 3 as well.
I’ve never seen a computer that’s a Radiator. Thank you everyone have a great evening
Might I interest you in an Analytical Engine?
I aspire to be like valve
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