Anyone try the new SteamOS?

[HisShadowX]

Can you dual boot Windows? I’m very interested in trying out SteamOS. I refuse to upgrade to Windows 11 as it seems MS has lost sight to what the American consumer wants. Which is most likely due to the fact their H1-B Visas are making Windows to what India thinks Americans want and like them reading a script just missing the point.

[r.linder]

SteamOS isn't available on desktop machines yet. Nobody knows when Valve will finish it either and there's no point waiting for SteamOS specifically when it's just a modified version of Arch currently made for the Steam Deck.

When it's fitted to desktops, it's probably not going to be much different from any other Arch distro.

[Quint]

Just use Bazzite.

[MonkehMaster]

as mentioned, there is no desktop version atm, so you will have to wait.

[lockwoodcody566]

Same as any other steam os already available and you give up a lot from windows. HDR is not just plug and play with desktop. Some games dont work as they should. Some dont work at all. Bazzite specifically was lacking in performance and Nobara just had hoops here and there for basic stuff like gpu control. Stick to windows if you have nice hardware. Its easy to bork a linux install.

[TheTrippyHippie]

HisShadowX původně napsal:

Can you dual boot Windows? I’m very interested in trying out SteamOS. I refuse to upgrade to Windows 11 as it seems MS has lost sight to what the American consumer wants. Which is most likely due to the fact their H1-B Visas are making Windows to what India thinks Americans want and like them reading a script just missing the point.

If you want to get the closest you can to an out of the Box SteamOS3 experience then try Bazzite

Go to Bazzites website have a good look around

Download the the deskop-deck version

I would install it on a spare disk and disconnect the windows Drive and any drives related to it, that will save you a ton of head aches that secure boot might throw up

test it out see what you think.

Bazzite-deck has Steam Deck mode

I was using windows 11, well I have only really used windows based OS for the past 26 years, but I have now move from Windows 11 to Bazzite.

To use Bazzite-deck you must have an AMD graphic's card that is at least RDNA1 or RDNA2 not sure if RDNA 4 is supported yet but I know support for RDNA 3 is coming

I now realise I don't need Windows 10 or 11 to enjoy playing games on my PC and haven't missed windows 10 or 11 one bit.

Thanks Bazzite.

Put it this way if SteamOS3 is as good as Bazzite then I'm all in on SteamOS3 but if it's not at least as good as Bazzite then I'm staying with Bazzite.

I guess for me Bazzite has now set the minimum standard I will except from my OS.

And that's a great starting and sticking point for me.

[HisShadowX]

Thanks everyone.

I’m gonna wait, or most likely switch to Mac OS at the end of the year.

I have a 2020 high-end Razer laptop that works pretty well. I can still play most games on Ultra at this point, and I’ve taken very good care of it.

But I’ve been waiting for Steam OS for years.

Literally, I skipped the Windows 8 generation hoping we’d get the Steam boxes, and as you all remember, all those companies, instead of waiting for Valve, ended up just putting Windows 8 on their machines.

And it just never worked out.

I’m glad the Steam Deck has taken off, but at a certain point, I’m going to have to upgrade soon, and the new Mac Mini is surprisingly looking pretty good with what it can do.

So I might do that and just wait on Steam OS.

[r.linder]

Bazzite gives more or less the same experience and supports multiple platforms, there's no point in waiting for SteamOS when it isn't special, everything that's available on it is available on other distros, because that's FOSS. None of it is proprietary.

Bazzite also has driver support for NVIDIA GPUs while SteamOS doesn't in its current state.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

2015 → SteamMachines → 2025 → SteamOS

Something seems oddly familiar about all this.

[TheTrippyHippie]

r.linder původně napsal:

Bazzite gives more or less the same experience and supports multiple platforms, there's no point in waiting for SteamOS when it isn't special, everything that's available on it is available on other distros, because that's FOSS. None of it is proprietary.

Bazzite also has driver support for NVIDIA GPUs while SteamOS doesn't in its current state.

Not in the Bazzite desktop-deck image that was built for AMD because that's what Steam Deck uses, I know you can get a desktop version of Bazzite Desktop for AMD or Nvidia

But unless something has changed in the Bazzite-deck ISO and they have now added Bazzite-deck for Nvidia hardware to the image?

As far as I am aware the the Bazzite-deck ISO version only works with AMD RDNA 1 and 2 GPU hardware, well that is according to the Bazzite webite when I download it.

[r.linder]

TheTrippyHippie původně napsal:

r.linder původně napsal:

Bazzite gives more or less the same experience and supports multiple platforms, there's no point in waiting for SteamOS when it isn't special, everything that's available on it is available on other distros, because that's FOSS. None of it is proprietary.

Bazzite also has driver support for NVIDIA GPUs while SteamOS doesn't in its current state.

Not in the Bazzite desktop-deck image that was built for AMD because that's what Steam Deck uses, I know you can get a desktop version of Bazzite Desktop for AMD or Nvidia

But unless something has changed in the Bazzite-deck ISO and they have now added Bazzite-deck for Nvidia hardware to the image?

As far as I am aware the the Bazzite-deck ISO version only works with AMD RDNA 1 and 2 GPU hardware, well that is according to the Bazzite webite when I download it.

Wasn't talking about a Deck image from Bazzite, talking about using it for desktops mainly, the mention of multi-platform was a completely separate point from NVIDIA support

If anyone's using a Deck then they already have SteamOS and should be using it anyway, if they bought another handheld but wanted SteamOS then IDK what they were thinking

[TheTrippyHippie]

TheTrippyHippie původně napsal:

r.linder původně napsal:

Bazzite gives more or less the same experience and supports multiple platforms, there's no point in waiting for SteamOS when it isn't special, everything that's available on it is available on other distros, because that's FOSS. None of it is proprietary.

Bazzite also has driver support for NVIDIA GPUs while SteamOS doesn't in its current state.

Not in the Bazzite desktop-deck image that was built for AMD because that's what Steam Deck uses, I know you can get a desktop version of Bazzite Desktop for AMD or Nvidia

But unless something has changed in the Bazzite-deck ISO and they have now added Bazzite-deck for Nvidia hardware to the image?

As far as I am aware the the Bazzite-deck ISO version only works with AMD RDNA 1 and 2 GPU hardware, well that is according to the Bazzite webite when I download it.

I think Nvidia Just runs the Bazzite steamOS KDE desktop version that looks like steamdeck desktop (it does not including the deck image due to hardware not being RDNA 1 or2)

[The 3 Whites]

i tried the old steam os. one problem was they never updated it. i hope they provide at least security updates for the new one in future.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

BOT PLAYER původně napsal:

i tried the old steam os. one problem was they never updated it. i hope they provide at least security updates for the new one in future.

SteamOS 3 is going to have updates for a long time to come, especially because of this...

https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/steamworks_docs/english/steam_brandGuidelines.pdf

[HisShadowX]

WinterSolstice původně napsal:

2015 → SteamMachines → 2025 → SteamOS

Something seems oddly familiar about all this. :csd2smile:

Yes, Microsoft pushed an OS no one wanted Windows 8 taking away features no one wanted.

What kills me is they rebuilt the start menu and in an update tried to kill it again removing its function like what we used to have in 95.

When Windows 8 was released no one wanted that and I think Value saw that.

With Windows 10 support ending in October and Windows 10 still has a 60% market share unless Microsoft extends Windows 10 again which would be the smart thing to do this would give all the other companies out there the opening they need to overtake windows.

Windows 11 was designed by foreigners imported to America for Americans who have no idea what Americans want.

Microsoft is doing the same thing with AR Tech. They beat the industry to the fight ten years ago with the HoloLens and like what Xerox did when it build an OS and mouse in the 70s that we wouldn’t see again until the 90s because their board was so incompetent they literally it to Apple and let Apple walk in and take their tech they never released to the public built in the 70s.

[MonkehMaster]

BOT PLAYER původně napsal:

i tried the old steam os. one problem was they never updated it. i hope they provide at least security updates for the new one in future.

odd, i got tons of updates using the older versions of steamos.