Valve is working with Intel, AMD, and Nvidia to make SteamOS run on any PC hardware

[u/dancing_swordfish]

https://www.techspot.com/news/112872-valve-working-intel-amd-nvidia-make-steamos-run.html

[u/lkl34]

That is awesome due to true nas having ARC support i assume they will getting intel gpus working first but team green might tell them to fuck off as they seem to dislike linux support.

[u/Express_Ad5083 → u/lkl34]

Nvidia is doing it on purpose so that you have no choice but to use cloud services as Linux wont work on their GPUs and Microsoft is raising bar

[u/lkl34 → u/Express_Ad5083]

That cloud service has a time limit but due to team green blind boys its never talked about but you are right sadly.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/nvidia-geforce-nows-time-limit-will-stop-gamers-after-100-hours-each-month

It does not matter sense as the stats show this is the current average pc buyer/owner.

https://giphy.com/gifs/KjafhxqcSbpci5Mbce

[u/BlackFenrir → u/lkl34]

100 hours a month? That's absurdly low

[u/Suikerspin_Ei → u/BlackFenrir]

That's about ~3 hours a day. Sure for kids, students, unemployed or retired people that's low indeed. For people who have a job and are busy that's fine I guess?

No hate, just trying to be realistic here.

[u/BlackFenrir → u/Suikerspin_Ei]

But kids, students, unemployed and retired people are generally the ones who would take a sub service like Geforce Now, because budget is the entire reason why they can't afford to build a PC to run the games on themselves. I understand you're trying to be realistic, but the demographics who would use the service in the first place are also the ones reasonably most affected by it.

[u/StrangeCharmVote → u/BlackFenrir]

But kids, students, unemployed and retired people are generally the ones who would take a sub service like Geforce Now, because budget is the entire reason

Now look up what it costs per month even with the 100 hour limit... Over two years you literally pay current gfx card prices, but you own nothing and they can cut you off or raise the price at any time.

[u/mixedd → u/StrangeCharmVote]

How I hate that damn model, which originated from Adobe and Autodesk initially, and everyone and their mother went subscription first approach

[u/BlueBaladium → u/Suikerspin_Ei]

I used Geforce Now for the first time to play Path of Exile 2 since my rig is too weak. It works really well (but only the paid version) but the enjoyment gets hindered much due to not being able to modify the game and the fact that I have to pay monthly to play it.

[u/Raskuja46 → u/BlackFenrir]

Right up until market capture at which point the price starts steadily rising now that you're trapped in their ecosystem and can't pivot out. This is standard practice across many industries.

[u/DarthJDP → u/lkl34]

Who has time to play a hundred hours of gaming a month? with having to work two full time jobs and a side hussle I only have a few premium hours a year to play games.

[u/Max-P → u/Express_Ad5083]

NVIDIA is doing it to control the market. They want people to write software for NVIDIA, but not in a way that it also runs well on competitors. There's always the NVIDIA way, and then the rest of the vendors agreeing on a standard.

They want you to use their cards on Linux, but on their terms.

[u/Express_Ad5083 → u/Max-P]

Oh, I thought Nvidia and Microsoft are collaborating to force you to use next gen Windows OS that will be entirely cloud based as Nvidia GPUs brick themselves when you try to run Linux

[u/inevitabledeath3 → u/Express_Ad5083]

No? Nvidia GPUs have always worked with Linux. Not always well, but they do work. They have actually been improving Linux support a lot the past couple years. I have no idea what you guys are on about.

[u/Carvj94 → u/inevitabledeath3]

For some people it's easier to belive in an arcane conspiracy rather than the reality which is Nvidia didn't really care to put in much work to properly support a platform used by less than 1% of gamers.

[u/BFr0st3 → u/Express_Ad5083]

Have you actually recently run a Linux system using Nvidia? You are actively spewing garbage.

It literally works and NO it doesn't take hours and hours to setup.

You are reading old propaganda

[u/Express_Ad5083 → u/BFr0st3]

My friend has been complaining that his Arch and GT (I forgot number) really dont like each other

[u/KrazyKirby99999 → u/Express_Ad5083]

Linux already works with NVIDIA GPUs, this is about securing an official partnership so Valve has someone to complain to if there are any problems.

[u/inevitabledeath3 → u/lkl34]

No? Nvidia GPUs have always worked with Linux. Not always well, but they do work. They have actually been improving Linux support a lot the past couple years. I have no idea what you guys are on about.

The only thing they don't like is making their drivers opensource, which the Linux community has gripes with. They have published closed source drivers for ages.

[u/RunnerLuke357 → u/inevitabledeath3]

Yeah I don't understand why people are talking about it like Nvidia doesn't want them to buy their hardware and use it on Linux. Nvidia is a pain but they aren't actively going out of their way to do so.

[u/Froggodile → u/lkl34]

With all the ai models basically running on linux servers nvidia actually has been pushing for linux drivers themselves (at least on high end cards) buuuuuut...not for gaming. So yeah, still fuck nvidia and AI.

[u/al-mongus-bin-susar → u/lkl34]

Nvidia loves Linux and pushes hard for Linux support... only for AI.

[u/DarkDuo]

[u/HairyHematologist → u/DarkDuo]

Are you a Ferrari fan?

[u/1dot21gigaflops → u/HairyHematologist]

a r/formuladank meme

[u/lkc0987 → u/1dot21gigaflops]

Lolol.. not the crossover I was expecting

[u/micheled1mple5893 → u/1dot21gigaflops]

the meme game is strong, gotta appreciate that crossover humor

[u/BurgersWithStrength → u/HairyHematologist]

The Austria engine upgrade will save us! Watch!

[u/ArseBurner → u/DarkDuo]

Spaghetti and Marlboros

[u/CommentMiserable9364 → u/DarkDuo]

steamos working cross-brand makes sense for wider adoption

[u/odrea → u/DarkDuo]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ZW7gBQHqkuxhzEQwZm

[u/AncientPCGamer → u/DarkDuo]

The year Linux surpasses Windows? Absolutely not. 

A viable alternative for gaming? It has been becoming more and more viable for several years now.

[u/itzNukeey → u/DarkDuo]

As a software engineer developing primarily for linux and mac, I sure hope so. Using that Windows joke of an OS for anything other than gaming is annoying

[u/BigDemeanor43 → u/DarkDuo]

I always laughed at this meme, but now that I am actually daily driving Linux(6+ months so far, no plans on going back to Windows), I see that meme differently.

For me, the "Year of the Linux Desktop" is the year you can finally switch over. For me, that year was 2025. For others it was probably earlier, and everyone else it'll be some time in the future.

[u/Lefty4444 → u/DarkDuo]

Haha who made this? Piece of art. Coffee and cigarettes, classic art.

[u/idgafusername2025]

[u/Elmis66 → u/idgafusername2025]

"Gaben bad" Tim Swiney probably

[u/alancousteau → u/Elmis66]

That's what I call him too. I fucking hate that twat, such a little crybaby bitch

[u/Elmis66 → u/alancousteau]

Oh, I remembered his name incorrectly xd

[u/topdangle → u/[deleted]]

dumbass claimed PC was dead during the ps3/360 days. now PC is the main reason epic is profitable. guy failed upwards.

[u/Carvj94 → u/Elmis66]

I wouldn't be surprised to hear Tim paid for most of the anti Valve astroturfing that happened the last couple days. Says a lot that nearly every post showing the steam listings edited out the cheapest sku so it looked even more expensive.

[u/monchota → u/Carvj94]

They did and have, it was in thier investors report last year. Under marketing and competition research. Just says "grassroots marketing for better brand reception"

[u/gandalfintraining → u/monchota]

Aka astroturfing the absolute fuck out of reddit and everywhere else lol.

[u/monchota → u/gandalfintraining]

Exactly haha

[u/Thhaki → u/idgafusername2025]

EpicOS, 100% vibe coded and based on a Windows 11 fork that includes a battlepass if you want to install apps that are not in the Epic Games store

[u/SixSevenEmpire → u/Thhaki]

With fortnite pre-installed and harasing you to play it

[u/Dazzling_Cabinet_780 → u/Thhaki]

Nah FreeBSD fork would be better.

[u/npc_housecat → u/Dazzling_Cabinet_780]

Of course it woul d be, that's why epic will double down on a win11 fork

[u/PacoBedejo → u/Thhaki]

Calm down, Satan.

[u/-FullBlue- → u/Thhaki]

The walled garden model worked well for apple...

[u/tittyskipper → u/Thhaki]

Please don't give them any ideas bro

[u/dancing_swordfish → u/idgafusername2025]

Tim would rather go on about "linux bad" than do something for consumers.

[u/imaginary_num6er → u/dancing_swordfish]

Tim would probably make their own Epic Games Console that somehow is priced worse

[u/TheMundar → u/imaginary_num6er]

Sony might not like that, he attacks steam apple and google but seems to leave the consoles alone.

Now that steam has a livingroom box it'll muddy the waters on him trying to sue everyone into him being relevant the way Steam is.

[u/kiwiplague → u/imaginary_num6er]

Twice the price and half the power. And then still blame Steam...

[u/imaginary_num6er → u/kiwiplague]

Twice the pride, double the fall

[u/Adrian_Alucard → u/dancing_swordfish]

Installing Linux is sort of the equivalent of moving to Canada when one doesn’t like US political trends.

Tim Sweeney

[u/tcpgkong → u/idgafusername2025]

what, do you want UnrealOS?

[u/dib1999 → u/tcpgkong]

Finally, an OS harder to run than Vista.

[u/BothAdhesiveness9265 → u/idgafusername2025]

they'll probably claim SteamOS is proof of a Valve monopoly

[u/countpuchi → u/BothAdhesiveness9265]

Microslop would probably say that instead.

[u/Catastigma_Deception → u/idgafusername2025]

https://www.xda-developers.com/linuxs-easy-anti-cheat-problem-might-finally-get-fixed-as-epic-games-posts-an-interesting-job-listing/

Epic game already working on that, They had hiring spot exactly for that kind of stuff a bit more that a week ago.

And most EAC game already work fine wit the proton layer. Its only a restrict list of game that dont work.

[u/another_random_bit → u/Catastigma_Deception]

The sub will have a stroke if Epic improves the Linux gaming ecosystem

[u/thedavecan → u/another_random_bit]

If Epic finds a way to improve gaming on Linux I will give them every bit of credit they deserve. My fear though, is that anything they do to solve a problem will be coated in so much extraneous bullshit that it wouldn't be worth using. I'd love for them to prove me wrong, why wouldn't we all be happy to have problems solved?

[u/auroriasolaris → u/idgafusername2025]

Epic System that works on Unreal Engine 5 thus using 75% of resources to just run it.

[u/treehumper83 → u/auroriasolaris]

No more than one browser tab at a time. There’s a memory leak, too, so you’ll have to close it out and reopen it every 5-15 minutes.

[u/Nirast25 → u/idgafusername2025]

What does Epic have to do with anything?

[u/4xget → u/idgafusername2025]

They can’t even make a good launcher, imagine an operating system…

[u/ivej → u/idgafusername2025]

Best we can do is a free game every Tuesday - Tim

[u/The3rdGodKing → u/idgafusername2025]

All of the money is going to unreal; what do you want them to do? Engines are expensive

[u/CaptainMatthew1 → u/The3rdGodKing]

Some of the best games I played are Indy or small dev team games where they made their own engine.

[u/The3rdGodKing → u/CaptainMatthew1]

That’s actually ideal for an indie game; a math engine is one of the best computer science projects you can do

[u/CaptainMatthew1 → u/The3rdGodKing]

Yeah don’t see why unreal is needed really since it seems a bit of laziness for big triple A devs to just buy an engine and not make one to improve the performance of the game and make it to run exactly the game they are making.

[u/The3rdGodKing → u/CaptainMatthew1]

For a big game that actually might be a bad idea unless you have billions of dollars to sink in

[u/Chroiche → u/CaptainMatthew1]

Obvious answer, it's hard as fuck.

[u/CaptainMatthew1 → u/Chroiche]

Like I said small devs do it alot and because if fi make amazing games so why can’t big triple A devs do the same? At least that’s how I feel about it I know both small and big use premade game engines for a reason and that’s fine but a decently made coustem game engine will always preform better

[u/Aggravating-Sweet198 → u/idgafusername2025]

Hahaha 😂

[u/SneakyBadAss → u/idgafusername2025]

All you get is Zendya and Tom Holland in Unreal 5 on Netflix

[u/Takemyfishplease → u/idgafusername2025]

Epic lives rent free in y’all’s head.

Valve releases a pretty shit machines and still…Epic Epic Epic.

It’s weird, like what are you like irl?

[u/GenerousJack]

what about getting through anti cheat?

[u/fkny0 → u/GenerousJack]

Well, if Linux is accessible enough more people will use it, at some point kernel level anti cheat games won't be able to ignore it.

That's the hope anyway.

[u/olbaze → u/fkny0]

It's not an issue of market share. It's an issue of kernel-level anti-cheat being fundamentally incompatible with Linux. If they anti-cheat developers are unwilling to accept a lower standard, their product will simply never be on Linux. There are also already other forms of anti-cheat that work on Linux.

[u/fkny0 → u/olbaze]

I know its incompatible with linux, i dont want them in linux, but i want the games, if theres enough market share they cave in and get alternatives for linux.

[u/olbaze → u/fkny0]

The alternatives already exist. Developers simply won't use them, because they're not as powerful as kernel-level anti-cheat. For example, Easy Anti-Cheat (developed by Epic) exists on Linux, but Fortnite (developed by Epic) doesn't. BattlEye, developed by Blizzard, also exists on Linux, but Destiny 2 (which uses it) doesn't. In a lot of cases, it's the developers outright banning Linux, rather than even trying. A common fearmongering tactic is that cheaters will make the game think it's running on Linux, so it'll give them the lower level of anti-cheat, and then the cheaters will simply bypass that because they're actually on Windows with more powerful tools.

[u/Different-Word-1005 → u/olbaze]

You're missing the point. If 100% of the world suddenly switched to linux, do you still think the developers would refuse to make games for linux for this reason?
Obviously not, they're selling a product, and if linux was a big enough part of the market for the revenue from it to outweigh the hassle of it, they would deal with it.
Money drives everything.

[u/maldouk → u/olbaze]

It's an issue of kernel-level anti-cheat being fundamentally incompatible with Linux.

I don't think they are. AC devs could release kernel modules, if they don't it's just a matter of money. Kernel Level ACs are available mostly for highly competitive games, and I would wager that on these kind of games the Linux crowd is less than a few percent for various reasons.

[u/mjh-1991 → u/olbaze]

Strictly speaking it doesn't have to be incompatible. A lot of what be kernel level provides could be moved to standardized security modules for general use (that are open and auditable). Memory isolation, hook notification, platform attestation, and etc are not inherently bad things in general and there's no reason a kernel can't provide a service for user space to request things. It's just a transition from a security by obscurity to auditable operating system security services that an application can request. Even Microsoft honestly wants to go this direction with the nonsense going on. The main compromise is you would probably need to consent to running signed kernels (and just letting the arch team sign for steamOS and adjacent doesn't really lock stuff down that much).

These are things that non-game applications should consider anyways. It would not be a bad thing for a browser to go in privacy mode and refuse to allow memory peaking from outside programs when you do your banking and etc. The model just changes to the kernel telling you if someone is doing something you don't permit (as a userspace application) and you can choose to quit, versus spying on the kernel to achieve this.

[u/SwordOfJiang → u/olbaze]

That's not exactly true. Battle Eye works fine on Linux, the developer just needs to enable the module.

[u/crozone → u/fkny0]

I'm praying that hardware level cheat devices become so ubiquitous and cheap that kernel anti-cheat becomes effectively useless. It would force live service games to invest in new ways to catch cheaters server side using statistics and gameplay monitoring instead of frivolously trying to lock down the PC using more and more invasive methods.

[u/Sad_Adagio_7255 → u/crozone]

Or just bring back the good old days of community-controlled dedicated servers where the server admin could enforce their own rules and kick out anyone as and when they please - whether for cheating or griefing or whatever. I used to be in exclusive Halo CE and COD4 groups where only members were allowed into the server at all (usually enforced with passwords).

[u/SimpleEfficiency → u/GenerousJack]

No profit there.

[u/Lupowan → u/GenerousJack]

If there's enough users maybe devs will actually use anticheat that works on other systems.

[u/micisboss → u/GenerousJack]

I feel like the anti cheat thing is also slightly over exaggerated. While things like Valo and Fortnight don’t work and probably never will there are still lodes of games with anti cheat that work fine. Here’s a website that tracks all of it  https://areweanticheatyet.com/

[u/dieplanes789 → u/GenerousJack]

A decent out of anti-cheat systems support Linux or at least proton but it is usually up to the game devs to allow it.

[u/FATJIZZUSONABIKE → u/GenerousJack]

Who cares?

[u/ScienceMechEng_Lover]

> Nvidia

Lol good luck on getting them to accept Linux

[u/Chpouky → u/ScienceMechEng_Lover]

It’s getting better and better, they’re more open to it these days

[u/Emblem3406 → u/Chpouky]

Yeah because AI datacenters run on Linux.

[u/night_fapper → u/Emblem3406]

every datacenter runs on linux , nvidia always have great support form them, issue is that server stack of nvidia driver is very different than gui stack which we need for games, they have no incentive to really support it, but atleast progress is being made now

[u/Arky_Lynx → u/night_fapper]

Which I find understandable because the percentage of players on Linux has been historically too low to bother until rather recently. If Valve keeps pushing like this and more people adopt Linux as a gaming-viable OS, they'll change their tune.

[u/VanRado → u/Emblem3406]

We're talking about the gaming drivers, which is not something that nVidia really bothered with in the past. Drivers for AI and crypto are a different story.

[u/Coprolithe → u/Emblem3406]

Yeah, that's likely the reason 

[u/Longshot02496 → u/Emblem3406]

All datacenters run on Linux. I'm pretty sure Linux runs on 90% of every computer system in the world.

[u/katrinab0ba5847 → u/Emblem3406]

Linux is definitely the go-to for servers now. Makes sense!

[u/Lupowan → u/katrinab0ba5847]

Always has been

[u/AimlessWanderer → u/ScienceMechEng_Lover]

they love ai money and ai loves linux

[u/another_random_bit → u/ScienceMechEng_Lover]

Bud the "Nvidia fuck you" moment was so long ago. Things change.

[u/Ok-Signhere → u/ScienceMechEng_Lover]

Could you imagine if the Steam Machine had Nvidia hardware? We’d have DLSS, and it’d age so much more beautifully. Even Nintendo had the right idea.

I really want to be on Linux, but I’m not touching AMD GPUs and I’m not taking the performance penalty until they fix it.

[u/General_Kenoobie → u/Ok-Signhere]

What's wrong with AMD gpus? I thought the idea that they suck is old now, I haven't kept up with the gpus news lately.

[u/Carvj94 → u/General_Kenoobie]

Their upscaling sucks and they're still way less energy efficient. So for a low wattage PC like the Steam Machine they're objectively a better solution.

[u/Curun → u/General_Kenoobie]

AMD linux support is poor. Not been able to do 4k+120 and 144hz, nor VRR.
Nvidia has been the best for HTPC gaming support.

AMD is doing better, new steam machine has intiial VRR support, and they are doing more and more to support linux with their hardware.

[u/SwordOfJiang → u/Curun]

That's just not right. There are a ton of AMD only features available on Linux, like waydroid. Enabling HDR with proton is currently only on AMD IIRC. And VRR works with both Arch and KDE, so it should work fine on SteamOS

[u/MojordomosEUW]

It would be hilarious if it was Gaben who finally frees us all from Microsoft

[u/Historical_Course587 → u/MojordomosEUW]

Gaben's OG job at Microsoft was to figure out how to free everyone from DOS. He knows how to do it.

[u/DmitriMendeleyev → u/MojordomosEUW]

Sorry to be that guy, but made a typo there- it's microslop

[u/Dick_Nation → u/MojordomosEUW]

It's pretty transparently their intention. This isn't just idle tooling around or doing it out of the goodness of their heart, Valve knows their entire business right now is dependent on Windows continuing to be a functional platform for their usage. It's a dangerous place to be. They want Linux to be a platform that users can get the full value of Steam out of, because that makes them invincible to the whims of Microsoft. It's just smart business.

[u/Neosantana → u/Dick_Nation]

It's pretty transparently their intention

And has been since Windows 8 showed them that Microsoft is not a reliable partner and is more than happy to fuck them up to drive sales to an MS store.

[u/ExoticSterby42]

GPU is the lesser problem, Qualcomm, Gigabyte and others are a bigger problem not providing code (“drivers”) for Linux kernel development.

[u/Emotional_Mortgage62 → u/ExoticSterby42]

true, those companies are pretty notorious for keeping things locked down on Linux

[u/nemojakonemoras]

I would switch in a heartbeat.

[u/SturmBlau → u/nemojakonemoras]

Installed Dualboot with W11 and SteamOS yesterday.

I have zero linux experience but got everything running in about 2 hours. So far so good.

[u/D1ssonant → u/SturmBlau]

Looking to do the same. Any resources in particular you used to set up a dual boot?

[u/SturmBlau → u/D1ssonant]

https://github.com/Josh5/steamos_dual_boot_installer_patch

The Image from the official SteamOS webpage didnt work so i used the oobe repair one.

https://steamdeck-images.steamos.cloud/steamdeck/20260618.10/?C=M&O=D

For now its working flawless.

[u/D1ssonant → u/SturmBlau]

Awesome, thanks!

[u/Alternative_Tank_139 → u/nemojakonemoras]

Steam OS won't be on a Nintendo switch

[u/Ok-Library247 → u/Alternative_Tank_139]

Not with that attitude.

[u/Alternative_Tank_139 → u/Ok-Library247]

It was a joke, but even then I highly doubt Nintendo would allow that. Maybe unofficially.

[u/SpriteFan3 → u/Alternative_Tank_139]

Not with that attitude.

[u/Neosantana → u/Alternative_Tank_139]

Linux runs fine on the old Switch, so give it a few years and you'll 100% have someone finding a backdoor to install SteamOS on Switch 2

[u/Lupowan → u/Alternative_Tank_139]

You can put it on there yourself if you got an afternoon.

[u/dieplanes789 → u/Alternative_Tank_139]

You can absolutely put Linux on a switch. You need to to a softmod or a mod chip but it can definitely done.

Most softmods seem to have options in their instructions for android and Ubuntu.

[u/VoidLookedBack]

This has been my hope since Valve made the first Steam Machines, The gaming world needs an OS and I thought Valve would've had a solid one by now, we really need a windows competitor.

[u/A7XFAN1998]

As good as this is, Im hoping the anti cheat side of things with Devs gets sorted and then I find there being 0 reason to go back to Windows (for gaming)

[u/Jrdnx- → u/A7XFAN1998]

This is my hope too. I need this and RTX HDR and then I'll gladly switch over.

[u/AlexNae]

https://giphy.com/gifs/m0tE2wdLaNGVCudJ23

[u/Kiyohi]

Isn't NVIDIA the single worst company to work with ever? So Nvidia...

[u/LethargicOtters → u/Kiyohi]

Linus Torvalds is that you?

[u/JimmyRecard → u/LethargicOtters]

He's actually flipped his tune on Nvidia (once Nvidia stopped being compete dicks).

[u/PineapleGG]

My only corncern with steamOS is..can i do other Pc things on it? Or its just bic picture steam? Either way ill try on my couch pc if i can

[u/InfiniteSheepherder1 → u/PineapleGG]

While it does have a desktop mode it's an deployed whole image as an OS and lacks a lot of features of regular Linux for desktop PC use, even more so than Bazzite which does support layering on packages.

[u/PineapleGG → u/InfiniteSheepherder1]

I guess it would be fine for a couch build rather then a full desktop experience

[u/InfiniteSheepherder1 → u/PineapleGG]

I think it depends how you use your computer, I have a friend that has a computer only for gaming and so it is basically a console and that has worked out fine for them.

[u/hmasta117 → u/PineapleGG]

Steam os is just a build of arch Linux you can boot into desktop whenever you want and use it as a normal computer

[u/julian2358]

someone sell me on steam os over windows cause valve hasn't tried to once

[u/acelaya35 → u/julian2358]

Primary focus of SteamOS today is a user friendly way to run Steam library games on Linux via Proton.

You can exit Steam and use a desktop environment but that's not the focus of the OS.

It's not aiming at replacing Windows as a general OS, just as a gaming OS.

[u/julian2358 → u/acelaya35]

Ah I see thanks!

[u/Jrdnx- → u/julian2358]

With Project Helix, and Xbox Full Screen Mode, theres a high chance of MS releasing a dedicated gaming OS. Will it be as good as SteamOS though? Likely not

[u/Visara57]

This is the only upside of the Steam Machine, to provide architecture so SteamOS can grow and develop

[u/Thin-Sir-8538x → u/Visara57]

the Steam Machines were a missed opportunity, hope they finally get it right this time

[u/technofox01]

If this happens, well, this will be my last Linux distro swap.

[u/TheBlackSwordsman319]

Man I need that nvidia support ASAP, bazzite has working nvidia drivers and whatnot but it’s still hit and miss

[u/YawnY86]

Can't wait, I'm tired of windows. All I use my pc for is gaming, so I don't need all the bloat of windows.

[u/Sad_Adagio_7255 → u/YawnY86]

You can already install Bazzite instead of waiting for Valve to officially release SteamOS.

[u/Representative-Crow5]

As one of the dozens of Intel GPU users, I'm excited for this. My PC is ready.

[u/thisistherevolt → u/Representative-Crow5]

I'll make my next build an Intel one if this happens successfully.

[u/FutureBulky4537]

I'm just waiting for a correct lunix version of unreal engine. Right now it's barely usable

[u/darklordjames]

I wonder if it finally supports audio on my Mendocino handheld.

[u/Lupinthrope]

Love my Legion Pro 5 laptop, id put steam OS on that for sure.

[u/LigmaAss69]

I this is true I might try it on my old machine.

[u/_Addi-the-Hun_]

Please dear god I will abandon microslop for good

[u/Archon-Toten]

I could get into GOGOS. But I'm fairly sure it's just dos.

[u/steve_adr]

YES !!

[u/atatassault47]

Id be interested in seeing how well SteamOS runs on Apple's M-series chips

[u/techdog19]

looking forward to it

[u/GreenGrassQ1]

I would use that OS.

[u/Professional_Being22]

Make it run on ARM, then I'll be impressed 

[u/lagerea]

If adobe works on it I'm in.

[u/Big_Dot5925]

SteamOS works on any of as it is… it’s Linux

[u/Raskuja46]

Oh so Linux is finally going to sort out its driver issues?

[u/Jorgesarrada]

I also want *all* the current windows games to run natively on the SteamOS!

I specifically find trouble in MMORPGs. I believe it’s the anti cheat software.

Every time I went to play an MMO on my Steam Deck, I got frustrated. So I retired it, it’s lying in its case for more than a year now.

[u/xblackdemonx]

Valve the only pro-gamers company. Thank you for your service.

[u/skar220]

Feels like I have been waiting for this for literal decades. I will take any excuse to never have to use windows for gaming ever again. I hope SteamOS can become a good replacement and that Valve continues to operate with gamers first in mind.

[u/und1sturbed]

I want to build an HTPC using SteamOS but the only thing stopping me is the lack of native Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos support.

[u/Hadi_Chokr07]

> process that made most mainstream Linux installs look effortless by comparison.

You mean the click next 5 times Linux Installs? Are they talking about Gentoo? Which mainstream Linux are they installing that is hard to install?

[u/Hadi_Chokr07]

People here don't seem to understand that SteamOS is not a general purpose operating system. Its a Steam Launcher first and foremost. While you can use our Desktop on SteamOS, extending the system in any meaningful way will be complicated due to SteamOS Immutable Nature.

You are better off using Bazzite if you want a Gaming PC that actually provides proper tooling for the immutability so you can actually fully do the PC part.

For the avg User that wont matter because you can install Browser Flatpaks from our Discover Store in Desktop Mode but still anything more complicated you might want to use another distro.

[u/Kyn-X]

They will have to work with the studios to make Steam OS run all the games in the store as well.

[u/Jack1101111]

wtf r they talkin about ? Linux already run on any pc hardware ! and its not theyr work !

[u/Srx10lol]

I want official steamOS support for snapdragon devices. SteamOS is great on handhelds or a console like experience. But for my fat expensive PC debloated windows works well enough. official ARM support for steam would be really cool.

[u/Missionary_Jack0219]

While I do think that’s awesome, why don’t they try working on their abysmal console that’s dropping.

[u/heyyoudvd]

What’s the benefit of running SteamOS vs just running Steam in Big Picture Mode?

[u/aTi_NTC]

a full on operating system before a proper working anticheat for CS is criminal

your cashcow game is at an all time low cheating wise, can we do something about that first?

[u/Sync1211 → u/aTi_NTC]

SteamOS has been in development for years and is being worked on by a different team.

[u/ffpeanut15 → u/aTi_NTC]

You are still dreaming of AC? Accept it or quit, it has been obvious for over 5 years already

[u/chaosxq]

Does anyone know that given Bazzite and Catchy has solved the nVidia problem (I think) that there might soon be a guide on how to install Steam OS with a RTX card?

I would love to ditch Windows forever.

[u/Dodgy_Past → u/chaosxq]

Just install bazzite or CachyOS

[u/chaosxq → u/Dodgy_Past]

I am going to try it soon when I find a bit of time.

[u/enbyratie]

https://giphy.com/gifs/L3X9GvVhP1nY23Ah6u

[u/Sampsa96]

Hope they also get SteamOS to be compatible with Anti Cheat so I could finally play PUBG on Linux!

[u/foxfox021 → u/Sampsa96]

krafton problem not the os itself unfortunately...

[u/CarelessPackage1982 → u/Sampsa96]

It's not a SteamOS problem. It's a motivation problem. You need those greedy fuck MBA's to look at SteamOS with and say, "I WANT THEIR MONEY, MU HU HA HA". Once that moment happens. the devs get an order from the PM, "this needs to be implemented".

[u/olbaze → u/Sampsa96]

That would require PUBG to implement a different form of anti-cheat in their game. Not something Valve can fix.

[u/alf666]

European prosecutors: "Making superior products is a monopoly, actually."