Is it officially possible to try "SteamOS Holo" 64 bit on an average PC?

[bringmemyaxe]

It just isn't obvious enough for me... This is a distro for Steam Deck, right? Is it officially possible to install it on other PCs? If only thanks to some enthusiast making it possible... if it's like that, then I won't try. I thought it was like previous versions of SteamOS. Is it or is it not?

[Omega]

Not yet. The currently available installer for SteamOS 3 is very Steam Deck specific and may not work properly on other devices.

Valve has indicated they are intend on releasing generic images eventually.

[bringmemyaxe]

Messaggio originale di Omega:

Not yet. Valve has indicated they are intend on releasing generic images eventually.

Wow that's cool news. Yeah I saw "steamdeck-recovery-4.img.bz2" and thought like "what is this, how to boot it..." obviously I don't have Steam Deck and like distro hopping :D

[Omega]

Messaggio originale di bringmemyaxe:

Messaggio originale di Omega:

Not yet. Valve has indicated they are intend on releasing generic images eventually.

Wow that's cool news. Yeah I saw "steamdeck-recovery-4.img.bz2" and thought like "what is this, how to boot it..." obviously I don't have Steam Deck and like distro hopping :D

It is is just a bz2 compressed disk image, like and ISO put inside of a ZIP. You can decompress it and put it on a flash drive, most PCs should boot from it just fine, however the image might not include firmware and drivers for your specific hardware and thus it will not be fully functional.

[bringmemyaxe]

Messaggio originale di Omega:

Messaggio originale di bringmemyaxe:

Wow that's cool news. Yeah I saw "steamdeck-recovery-4.img.bz2" and thought like "what is this, how to boot it..." obviously I don't have Steam Deck and like distro hopping :D

It is is just a bz2 compressed disk image, like and ISO put inside of a ZIP. You can decompress it and put it on a flash drive, most PCs should boot from it just fine, however the image might not include firmware and drivers for your specific hardware and thus it will not be fully functional.

Thanks for the advice, I'll try. As I suppose, it's sort of a modified Arch Linux with KDE, maybe my hardware is not that specific. Thank you!

[Electric Cupcake]

That's a nice choice of code name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qgURC-d71c

[bringmemyaxe]

Messaggio originale di Omega:

You can decompress it and put it on a flash drive, most PCs should boot from it just fine, however the image might not include firmware and drivers for your specific hardware and thus it will not be fully functional.

Nice try, but it hasn't booted at all :D a black screen ;D

[TC SKATES]

Its arch, which.... barf.

Why not just use any Linux and install steam on it?

[Omega]

Messaggio originale di bringmemyaxe:

Messaggio originale di Omega:

You can decompress it and put it on a flash drive, most PCs should boot from it just fine, however the image might not include firmware and drivers for your specific hardware and thus it will not be fully functional.

Nice try, but it hasn't booted at all :D a black screen ;D

Black screen = it booted. Just no display.

You must be running an Nvidia GPU, that would be my first guess. You will have the best chance of it working on AMD CPU + AMD GPU systems.

Now I am curious and am going to try..

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Gpu doesn't matter like that. Amd cpu + nvidia gpu works all the same.

[Omega]

Messaggio originale di Bad 💀 Motha:

Gpu doesn't matter like that. Amd cpu + nvidia gpu works all the same.

The hardware being combined isn't the problem, it is the potential lack of drivers for said hardware in SteamOS.

Valve possibly slimmed down the kernel making it only contain the drivers it needs for the Steam Deck + peripherals, that would exclude Nouveau and Intel CPU drivers. The kernel in SteamOS 3.0 is a few megabytes lighter than mainline Linux as supplied by Arch, so Valve most likely did indeed cut out some bits.

[dennis@zora ~]$ ls -alh /mnt/steamos/boot | grep vmlinuz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9,0M 26 apr 06:26 vmlinuz-linux-neptune
[dennis@zora boot]$ ls -alh /boot | grep vmlinuz
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  11M  6 sep 20:55 vmlinuz-linux
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  12M  3 sep 13:20 vmlinuz-linux-zen

And there is also the possibility of them compiling the software for the hardware specifically aswel to maximize performance. This will make it simply not function on any other CPU which doesn't support all the same instructions.

[bringmemyaxe]

Yeah, right, I have an Intel CPU, so probably that's one of the reasons (and an nvidia gpu as well)

[bringmemyaxe]

Has anything changed after a year and a half? Is SteamOS Holo still exclusively available on the Steam Deck, or is there now an official installation image for any PC?

[Omega]

Messaggio originale di bringmemyaxe:

Has anything changed after a year and a half? Is SteamOS Holo still exclusively available on the Steam Deck, or is there now an official installation image for any PC?

Most people today are recommending Bazzite. Steam OS is still not available for anything other tahyn the Deck. Valve is still regularly saying a Steam OS installer will be made available soon, just like 2 years ago.

[bringmemyaxe]

Messaggio originale di Omega:

Messaggio originale di bringmemyaxe:

Has anything changed after a year and a half? Is SteamOS Holo still exclusively available on the Steam Deck, or is there now an official installation image for any PC?

Most people today are recommending Bazzite. Steam OS is still not available for anything other tahyn the Deck. Valve is still regularly saying a Steam OS installer will be made available soon, just like 2 years ago.

thanks a ton for such a quick answer; I was actively searching and thought that I just can't find it. So it still doesn't exist, haha

[Electric Cupcake]

I'd be content if they just fixed scaling on the apt version.

Is everything tiny for the flat and snap versions too? Because this really makes my eyes hurt.