Anyone else want Steam Deck OS on PC?

[cl@m Hulk Hoagie (Crawsome)]

I want to free my PC of Windows but I'm sad to learn SteamOS =/= Steam Deck OS.
Close to making the switch, but if Steam Deck OS was an official release for PC, I'd use it in a second.

[dakimasu]

Drak3님이 먼저 게시:

Windows 11 (and 10) "just working" is an exception, not really a rule. We're at the point where a Linux distro aimed at casual users (such as Manjaro, Ubuntu, Mint, Pop!_OS, etc.) is going to be as much work (maybe less) as Windows.

I should have specified on modern hardware, windows is meant to be for consumers that don't know anything about computers its the main point of it.

[RickTheMelon]

You could give Bazzite a try
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/bazzite-is-a-steamos-clone-that-supports-gaming-pcs-and-the-steam-deck

[[?]legit]

Just get linux and start steam in the big picture mode. Et voila - steam os.

[CJM]

RickTheMelon님이 먼저 게시:

You could give Bazzite a try
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/bazzite-is-a-steamos-clone-that-supports-gaming-pcs-and-the-steam-deck

Has anybody compared Nobara, ChimeraOS, HoloISO and Bazzite?

According to that Tom's Hardware article, Bazzite is a Fedora variant like Nobara.

Drak3님이 먼저 게시:

We're at the point where a Linux distro aimed at casual users (such as Manjaro, Ubuntu, Mint, Pop!_OS, etc.) is going to be as much work (maybe less) as Windows.

Arch Family

• Manjaro
  
• Steam OS 3
  
• HoloISO
  
• ChimeraOS

Ubuntu (Debian) Family

• Ubuntu
  
• Kubuntu
  
• Mint
  
• Pop!_OS

Red Hat Family

• Fedora Core
  
• Nobara
  
• Bazzite

[fg47zt]

I plan to build a gaming PC with steamOS in valvetime. SteamOS works for what I needed anyways.

[Waifu4Life]

I'm currently trying Linux Mint and it works like ass with my Nvidia card. An indie game that I can run at 4K 60FPS on Windows run at 24FPS on Mint.

[Prezidentas]

Waifu4Life님이 먼저 게시:

I'm currently trying Linux Mint and it works like ass with my Nvidia card. An indie game that I can run at 4K 60FPS on Windows run at 24FPS on Mint.

sounds like you are not using the proprietary drivers. well I guess that's what you get for buying nvidia...

[Waifu4Life]

Škoda 14Tr님이 먼저 게시:

Waifu4Life님이 먼저 게시:

I'm currently trying Linux Mint and it works like ass with my Nvidia card. An indie game that I can run at 4K 60FPS on Windows run at 24FPS on Mint.

sounds like you are not using the proprietary drivers. well I guess that's what you get for buying nvidia...

*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GA104 [GeForce RTX 3070]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0a:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:73 memory:fb000000-fbffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:e0000000-e1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff
*-graphics
product: EFI VGA
physical id: 1
logical name: /dev/fb0
capabilities: fb
configuration: depth=32 resolution=1024,768

[CJM]

Waifu4Life님이 먼저 게시:

Škoda 14Tr님이 먼저 게시:

sounds like you are not using the proprietary drivers. well I guess that's what you get for buying nvidia...

*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GA104 [GeForce RTX 3070]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation

Okay. But that doesn't indicate whether you are using the Open Source Noveau drivers or the proprietary official NVIDIA drivers.

[IceFoxX]

CJM님이 먼저 게시:

Arch is just what the cool kids are using. I don't know how googlable issues and solutions are for that family of distributions.

Arch is going the KISS way its not full of bloatware like ALL this ubuntu devirate or other distributations. The best wikis etc can also be found at archlinux.org. It is also not without reason often mentioned as a source in the wikis of the other distributions. You just choose yourself which software collection you want to pack around the kernel.
Then KDE is still mentioned here as the best desktop environment. Which is also a software bundle full of bloatware. With the examples mentioned here, you already have a cluttered OS after installation. You don't have the whole rat tail with Arch unless you really want it.
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ statement with "cool kids"... laughable.

[CJM]

IceFoxX님이 먼저 게시:

CJM님이 먼저 게시:

Arch is just what the cool kids are using. I don't know how googlable issues and solutions are for that family of distributions.

Arch is going the KISS way its not full of bloatware like ALL this ubuntu devirate or other distributations.

My first experience with Linux was with Mandrake 7.2, which started out as a Red Hat derivative built around KDE 2. As a child I enjoyed getting Windows software to run under W.I.N.E.

My next distribution would be Xandros 3, which started out as Corel Linux in 1999 which was a Debian derivative like Ubuntu. Xandros was built around KDE 3, and was intended as a beginner distro, i.e. built around the K.I.S.S. principle.

When Ubuntu came on the scene in 2004, "commercial" distributions available on store shelves fell out of favor as internet speeds increased. Since then, Ubuntu derivatives have been the definition of K.I.S.S. for me. Specifically, Kubuntu.

I hated KDE 4, preferring KDE 3.5. However, KDE (Plasma) 5 has won me over. I now find it to be a sufficiently robust environment for my daily computing needs, outside of iTunes.

IceFoxX님이 먼저 게시:

Then KDE is still mentioned here as the best desktop environment. Which is also a software bundle full of bloatware.

You call bloatware, I call comprehensive.

[iangaming]

i want to install steaam deck os on my window 11 pc and all i get on google is how to install windows on a steam deck oh yeah by the way microsoft is looking to make window 12 a pay subscription and thats why i want to switch to steam deck os

[Prezidentas]

iangaming님이 먼저 게시:

i want to install steaam deck os on my window 11 pc and all i get on google is how to install windows on a steam deck oh yeah by the way microsoft is looking to make window 12 a pay subscription and thats why i want to switch to steam deck os

SteamOS is for HTPCs and handhelds. You can use any other Linux distro for your PC.

[Waifu4Life]

Škoda 14Tr님이 먼저 게시:

SteamOS is for HTPCs and handhelds. You can use any other Linux distro for your PC.

I tried 3 Linux distro in the last couple of month which people sworn by the quality and they all had issues. Cleary Valve is working hard on their distro because Steam Deck OS doesn't have any of the issues I experienced.

[Prezidentas]

Waifu4Life님이 먼저 게시:

Škoda 14Tr님이 먼저 게시:

SteamOS is for HTPCs and handhelds. You can use any other Linux distro for your PC.

I tried 3 Linux distro in the last couple of month which people sworn by the quality and they all had issues. Cleary Valve is working hard on their distro because Steam Deck OS doesn't have any of the issues I experienced.

did you actually install SteamOS and checked that it doesn't have same issues on your computer? SteamOS is nothing special.