Valve is making its SteamOS Linux distribution compatible with more desktop hardware, including Nvidia graphics, so you can build your own Steam Machine.
Plenty of the Linux YouTubers have been rolling their eyes when people treat SteamOS as an option, so it’ll be interesting to watch their opinions 180 (or not).
I roll my eyes when I see people saying they’ll leave Windows when they can run SteamOS, considering there are other distros that are just as good or better. But the brand name recognition will definitely bring some people.
I get it, though. The ease of updates is really enticing despite distros like bazzite being better in about every other way.
I had assumed that Steam wouldn’t do this, partly because they wouldn’t want to deal with supporting Linux beginners, but they certainly have the resources to do so if they are willing to.
I don’t know if them releasing it for a bigger audience necessarily means they’ll support it. Might very well be that they’ll rely on the community for that.
I already have my laptop on a different distro. I’ve been waiting for Steam OS for my gaming PC because it will be the easiest to game on, and for the guaranteed popularity it will be easy to find fixes for compatibility on any games and work well with my steam deck and it will have the biggest force behind it to have games work well on their Linux distro.
You can roll your eyes all you want, but the fact is, you’re going to find out you’re kind of full of shit. Almost anyone who just wants a gaming PC without windows is going to use this distro and with valves resources and popularity it will be the best distro to game on. It would be a bit silly to think otherwise.
SteamOS is already not the best gaming distro. Besides I never said it would be bad, I just said it’s silly to be sticking with Windows 11 because you’re waiting for SteamOS, and people have been saying this for years still waiting and waiting. It’s less silly now that we might actually be closer to the release date.
You never specified 11. I stayed on 10. Lol
Well previously it was the fact that it was very AMD centric. Linux can easily support anything of course. But for something that you just want to install and work. Steam OS was made with AMD in mind. You could get Nvidia to work with enough faphing about. But it was discouraged and not default. Enabling it by default could theoretically be less work for Valve. And a value add for the software as a whole.
Before this, said YouTubers were right. It wasn’t designed for General use and would cause a lot of problems for people just trying to get into it. Valve changing their support absolutely will change all of this. But it was never guaranteed.
I don’t know about youtubers, but as far as I know SteamOS wasn’t meant to be installed on non-deck devices, being distributed only as updates (not sure how those work) and recovery images for reinstalling on your deck, with no support or even instructions for installing it elsewhere.
It’s not about SteamOS being stupid, it’s about it not even being meant to be an option - it had less support than those “random” other distros.
Oh. Neat
paywall, so no idea what changed, but the official install instruction don’t list nvidia anywhere, just beta support for AMD discrete GPUs
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/65B4-2AA3-5F37-4227
Skip paywall: https://archive.ph/f0MP3
I was running steamos some 12 years ago. i was dual booting with debian then, but now I just run debian fulltime. how is this news?
But will they also release half-life 3?
I’m already running SteamOS on my 7800x3d and 7900XTX PC.
Doubt. SteamOS has been freely available for many years.
Only through third party hackery not officially supported by valve.
I assume this is in response to the backlash to Steam hardware pricing?
