Submitted 2 hours ago by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
https://steamdeckhq.com/news/valve-gives-green-light-to-install-steamos-on-desktop/
Tucked into their FAQ about the Steam Machine release was a mention about making your own Steam Machine by installing steamOS to a computer you already have. AMD only for now.
They should pay someone to finalize the jailbreak of the PS5, because SteamOS should run great on it if you have a hacked console.
This would make me use it again, it’s just gathering dust since I have a gaming laptop (bought on sale years ago, much better than the ps5), but mostly just use blender and watch tv, would be sick if it made it so I can play simracing games on it with my moza wheel because I never want to close out of my projects on my laptop.
It’d be nice to use it as a homeserver too, just leave it connected to the router and throw some selfhosted apps on there or whatever. Be so much more useful as another linux pc now that I don’t really game and if I do it’s never an exclusive. Just don’t care for linear single player story games.
We shouldn’t need a jailbreak.
If Apple has to allow 3rd party stores, why not Sony?
Gotta put in on my Steam Deck
Wasn’t that always allowed?
Allowed and available, but not endorsed.
Allowed but janky, this is probably a more polished installer.
I see, and yes, you needed some technical savvyness (is that a word?) to do this on your own before
It wasn’t officially supported for a long time even if they never stopped you. No real installer, etc. But now they started adding a lot more driver support even for hardware they aren’t going to use, which you only do if you want to let people use 3rd party hardware
Awesome, thanks for the info
They only had the old SteamOS available for installing to anything but a Steam Deck.
craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 11 minutes ago
Love it, giving us an easy arch-based gaming distro basically. Now they just gotta give us half-life 3 as well.