SteamdeckOS on ROG AllyX

[Sinister MrFox]

I currently have the Steam OS on my ROG Ally... My buddy just shared with me that the new update for the OS will support the other handheld devices using AMD.. Will I be able to just update my system to this version? Or will I need to do a full clean install of the OS Again? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I just got all of my switch emulations ETC working and I dont want to redo all of that again if I dont have to..

And yes when i say SteamOS I am referring to Bazite

[Haruspex]

Ooh, good question. That might be uncharted territory.

If you have it up and working already, I bet you can just upgrade without needing to do a full clean install. I'm curious to see if that's true.

Originally posted by Sinister MrFox:

And yes when i say SteamOS I am referring to Bazite

Oh... In that case yeah. You'll need to reimage.

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by Sinister MrFox:

I currently have the Steam OS on my ROG Ally... My buddy just shared with me that the new update for the OS will support the other handheld devices using AMD.. Will I be able to just update my system to this version? Or will I need to do a full clean install of the OS Again? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I just got all of my switch emulations ETC working and I dont want to redo all of that again if I dont have to..

And yes when i say SteamOS I am referring to Bazite

Yes. you need to completely reimage your device if you want to install Steam OS. all your emulator stuff can be backed up and imported once you reimage though.

[Satoru]

The SteamOS recovery USB obliterates anything that exists on the device as part of the recovery

People need to stop calling Bazite "steamos". If I said "when I say RedHat I am referring to SuSe" I would be literally crucified for that

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by Sinister MrFox:

And yes when i say SteamOS I am referring to Bazite

Then call it Bazite.

Originally posted by Sinister MrFox:

I currently have the Steam OS on my ROG Ally...

You do not. You have a Linux distribution called Bazite that is focused on gaming which happens to have the Steam client installed, I'm assuming it is defaulting to Big Picture Mode.

Originally posted by Sinister MrFox:

Will I be able to just update my system to this version? Or will I need to do a full clean install of the OS Again? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

If you want true SteamOS, you'll need to perform a clean install as it is its own self-contained Linux distribution. You are probably already on the most updated Steam client. But as said earlier, the Steam client is not SteamOS.

SteamOS Recovery and Installation
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/1B71-EDF2-EB6D-2BB3

Scroll all the way down on that page and you will see sections for install to a ROG or a Legion.

[twopoint71]

SteamOS runs very well on an ROG Ally.

I installed it over Windows following the instructions at https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/1B71-EDF2-EB6D-2BB3

I used YUMI multi-boot USB. I'm not sure if it matters, but I did decompress the image from a .bz2 file first.