SteamOS PC is here...

[codingpanic]

Just writing to let you all know that the SteamOS PC is already here, even using the stock Steam Deck restore image. I was able to boot, and install (with a quick mod to the restore script to use /dev/sda) the stock image to a mini ryzen PC. (5500U, 64GB ram, oculink Radeon 7600XT) Everything works great, even the 2.5Gbe.

I will not be going back to Windows on my gaming PC.

[tyl0413]

Thats great if you have AMD, the rest of us will probably have to wait at least a few more years until Valve gets them to cooperate enough to have functional drivers to get the same experience. I use CachyOS but there are still a lot of issues.

[BlueAuran]

Originally posted by tyl0413:

Thats great if you have AMD, the rest of us will probably have to wait at least a few more years until Valve gets them to cooperate enough to have functional drivers to get the same experience. I use CachyOS but there are still a lot of issues.

Yeah, pretty useless for the entire rest of the world pretty much. How HARD can you drop the ball when you have ONE job to do IMO. COULD BE one of the most well used and liked OSes in existence by far, sitting at #1 on DistroWatch...instead they just letting that code GO TO WASTE MOSTLY under THE LARGEST video game company on the earth!

[BlueAuran]

Originally posted by BlueAuran:

Originally posted by tyl0413:

Thats great if you have AMD, the rest of us will probably have to wait at least a few more years until Valve gets them to cooperate enough to have functional drivers to get the same experience. I use CachyOS but there are still a lot of issues.

Yeah, pretty useless for the entire rest of the world pretty much. How HARD can you drop the ball when you have ONE job to do IMO. COULD BE one of the most well used and liked OSes in existence by far, sitting at #1 on DistroWatch...instead they just letting that code GO TO WASTE MOSTLY under THE LARGEST video game company on the earth!

oh and I TRIED Cashie, super instable, and even borked 2 of my windows installs BECAUSE THERE IS ZERO CAVEAT to warn people on their HANDHELD OS can have a HUGE possibility of doing that. So near a couple dozen hours wasted or whatever, and LOTS of work. I WARN anyone even thinking of playing with that VERY POPULAR OS these days (as it is blazingly fast) to remember HOW TINY IT IS in compare to STABLE MANJARO. I know their dev team likes to brag that they are super large and all...yet honestly, manjaro has an ENTERPRISE version for years now FOR A REASON!

So far I have PARTIALLY managed to repair ONE of those windows installs (the ISSUE is cahcie CAN turn your Windows INTO A DYNAMIC DISK = which can cause it just to break = far as I know ONLY the handheld version has this "quirk" as I will LIGHTLY label it). I will most likely be able to repair the other install entirely. Using Partition Magic or whatever that FREEWARE was I saved from years ago.

[tyl0413]

Originally posted by BlueAuran:

Originally posted by BlueAuran:

Yeah, pretty useless for the entire rest of the world pretty much. How HARD can you drop the ball when you have ONE job to do IMO. COULD BE one of the most well used and liked OSes in existence by far, sitting at #1 on DistroWatch...instead they just letting that code GO TO WASTE MOSTLY under THE LARGEST video game company on the earth!

oh and I TRIED Cashie, super instable, and even borked 2 of my windows installs BECAUSE THERE IS ZERO CAVEAT to warn people on their HANDHELD OS can have a HUGE possibility of doing that. So near a couple dozen hours wasted or whatever, and LOTS of work. I WARN anyone even thinking of playing with that VERY POPULAR OS these days (as it is blazingly fast) to remember HOW TINY IT IS in compare to STABLE MANJARO. I know their dev team likes to brag that they are super large and all...yet honestly, manjaro has an ENTERPRISE version for years now FOR A REASON!

It mostly works well but it definitely has some issues, like the system killing itself with updates because it runs out of storage on /tmp unless you manually clear it every time, which is very annoying.
When I have the time I kinda wanna go to endeavour or smth but idk if I can use the closed nvidia kernel module, open has trash performance for me.
This is why SteamOS on PC needs to happen officially so things like this no longer have to be fucked around with.
Manjaro Ive heard has a ton of issues these days and is no longer recommended, every time I installed it in a VM it was dead by the next time I tried to boot it so yeah.

[BlueAuran]

you honestly have to be joking about Manjaro being unstable as a distro buds. Do you even realize that of ALL the OS's on distrowatch, it is #1 as far as BEING HARD TO BREAK. Are you kind of NEW to linux then? I have been using THE OS underlying Steams FOR DECADES now...although by zero means an expert with anything. Just experience. Forget about Endeavor also for the most part, even SMALLER than Cachie far as I know, or similar. Focus on what you are doing wrong then with the most stable OS's and then perhaps you will know why people BUY Manjaro for the biz because as mentioned it has the NUMBER ONE enterprise version for linux in the entire industry. OE if YOu are getting older like me, and DO have lots of experience, then maybe you were talking about OLDER Manjaro, which yeah, I could see your point then. Yet it has been a long time, and they are #1 for a reason, even if all the butter headed youngsters craving every ounce of speed they can get out of their medium end rig vote for others to be ahead due to distro-hopping insanity. ALSO note we are talking OBVIOUSLY regular distros here, immutable are disqualified for multiple reasons.

[GifBang (Allkeyshop)]

Originally posted by codingpanic:

Just writing to let you all know that the SteamOS PC is already here, even using the stock Steam Deck restore image. I was able to boot, and install (with a quick mod to the restore script to use /dev/sda) the stock image to a mini ryzen PC. (5500U, 64GB ram, oculink Radeon 7600XT) Everything works great, even the 2.5Gbe.

I will not be going back to Windows on my gaming PC.

Post the script to trie on my own Desktop Rysen 5 1600AF with Rx 6600 8gb and 16GB DDR4 i got a nvme m.2 256+ 1 SSD 480GB + 1 SSD 1TB + 1HD 2TB + USB 3.0 HD 1TB i wana try install in my ssd of 1TB not in m.2 nvme because the nvme m.2 i got windows

[BlueAuran]

Originally posted by GifBang:

Originally posted by codingpanic:

Just writing to let you all know that the SteamOS PC is already here, even using the stock Steam Deck restore image. I was able to boot, and install (with a quick mod to the restore script to use /dev/sda) the stock image to a mini ryzen PC. (5500U, 64GB ram, oculink Radeon 7600XT) Everything works great, even the 2.5Gbe.

I will not be going back to Windows on my gaming PC.

Post the script to trie on my own Desktop Rysen 5 1600AF with Rx 6600 8gb and 16GB DDR4 i got a nvme m.2 256+ 1 SSD 480GB + 1 SSD 1TB + 1HD 2TB + USB 3.0 HD 1TB i wana try install in my ssd of 1TB not in m.2 nvme because the nvme m.2 i got windows

Is it still a semi-immutable by default tho?

[GifBang (Allkeyshop)]

Yes is

[GifBang (Allkeyshop)]

Originally posted by codingpanic:

Just writing to let you all know that the SteamOS PC is already here, even using the stock Steam Deck restore image. I was able to boot, and install (with a quick mod to the restore script to use /dev/sda) the stock image to a mini ryzen PC. (5500U, 64GB ram, oculink Radeon 7600XT) Everything works great, even the 2.5Gbe.

I will not be going back to Windows on my gaming PC.

You use any part of this script i search on Github https://github.com/ryanrudolfoba/SteamOS-microSD

or any of this post https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamOS/comments/t5ihmq/mods_locked_original_thread_steamos_recovery/

[BlueAuran]

So for Ubuntu (2nd most compatible OS with SteamOS3) you would use MINT or Kubuntu, etc. For Arch, pretty much Manjaro is your best bet UNLESS you want to go PROPER full on geek and just install Arch.

[ENRORY]

Hello i installed the new Steam OS version on my PC

With Usb all start and installing processe all done.
Now start Steam Os and only get graphic glitch on top. (frezze picture)

I use Nvidia 3070 is this problem? only amd?

[tyl0413]

Originally posted by ENRORY:

Hello i installed the new Steam OS version on my PC

With Usb all start and installing processe all done.
Now start Steam Os and only get graphic glitch on top. (frezze picture)

I use Nvidia 3070 is this problem? only amd?

Yes Steam Deck Recovery is for AMD only.

[tutacat]

SteamOS is a Console OS, not a desktop OS. You only get limited persistence, there is no real password, it is not disk encrypted (and it would be a faff to set that up).

If you want a more locked-down OS like Steam just for gaming and Flatpak (the apps you can install through desktop mode) then look at Bazzite (a community gaming-focused atomic-updating OS (that means, only a full successful update can be applied, and that base system is the same across every user), based on Fedora Workspaces. with a desktop and game mode already set-up, like on SteamOS).

If you want a desktop replacement OS, probably better options are Pop! OS or Ubuntu. These are simple and easy to set up, have lots of tutorials and support available from community, and are easier to set up all the drivers (video codecs, Nvidia, AMD graphics).

If you want even easier setup for gaming, then Nobara Linux (based on Fedora) is also a good option (it does need "secure boot" disabled because it is a community distro, not a big company), but the creator. GloriousEggroll, helps improve Proton/Steam Play and works for Red Hat (that create Fedora).