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Steam Ate Microsoft's Lunch On PC, It's About To Do The Same On Handhelds

kotaku.com Steam Ate Microsoft's Lunch On PC, It's About To Do The Same On Handhelds

As Valve gets ready to bring Steam Deck's OS to more platforms, Microsoft is out of time

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Steam needs to drop a whole OS for PC.
- https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown
  
  You can install it yourself on PC.
  
  This is not SteamOS, but that site says SteamOS is available from here
  
  Note that the SteamOS download on that page is NOT the current version of SteamOS used on the Steam Deck, it's the 2-3 year old version that Valve released a while back and doesn't have most any of the actual improvements to SteamOS that make it worthwhile. The only way to get the current SteamOS is to download the recovery image for the Steam Deck at https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/1B71-EDF2-EB6D-2BB3 and install from there.
  
  Linus from LTT did a video about getting it up and running here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdR-bxvQKN8
  
  EDIT: As per usual, Linus didn't do good research and was incorrect about the SteamOS version available at that link, updated to strike the incorrect info.
  
  Seems like the instructions are still for SteamOS 2, they mention a file named “SteamOS.zip” while you get a file bzip archive of an img file
  
  Yeah, Linus didn't actually bother clicking the links. The old OS download links redirect to the arch based steam deck os
  
  Yeah, Linus didn’t actually bother clicking the links.
  
  Ya know, somehow I'm not surprised to hear LTT didn't do their research
  
  Why anyone ever watched their garbage videos is beyond me.
  
  I'd like to think they provide a useful service. "useful" as in entertaining and a sense of community. They get things wrong but I'd like to think that they try and in the "churn" of making videos and running a company you screw up every now and again.
  
  I haven't watched an LTT video in a while though. I just hate their thumbnails (I get the algorithm forces them) but over time I think their content just isn't for me, but I can see why others would.
  
  It's entertaining.
  
  Tbf, I only know because I watch too much YouTube and bringus studios mentioned it a couple months ago.
  
  Bringus needs more love around these parts
  
  Or it was filmed before Valve updated the info on the page
  
  Nope, been like that for months.
  
  Eta: it was mentioned in a bringus studios video a couple months ago, iirc installing steam on a cardboard box
  
  Interesting, I looked into it about 6 months ago and all the info was not to use the link so maybe they didn't go on the page because everyone was saying not to 🤷
  
  Yeah 6 months sounds about right from my recollection. It was available for a while after they released the steam deck, and something like 6-8 months ago they started redirecting to the deck os instead.
  
  They were talking about SteamOS 2.0 being Debian and made for general hardware and SteamOS 3.0 being Arch based and really only meant for the Steam Deck, though it's unclear if there's drivers enough to put it on other hardware, but we're looking at Powered By SteamOS devices coming out. So, am I to take it that SteamOS 3.0 is implied to be capable of installing on alternate hardware now?
  
  Like, I'm just going to stick with my Steam Deck but it's interesting to think you can make Steam Machines again.
  
  To be fair it's not exactly obvious that the downloaded file is generic enough to be used on something else than the Steam Deck when the file is named steamdeck-repair-20231127.10-3.5.7.img.bz2
  
  That's still steamos2, based on debian 8 (current is debian 12). What's on the Steam deck is much more recent, usable and stable.
  
  There's some user made distros that are basically just like steamos3 though, but at that point you may just as well install a mainstream linux distribution and simply install steam on it.
  
  Nope, the download link actually redirects to the arch based steam deck os.
  
  They really need to update the rest of the page... Big ass banner right above the download link says it's not compatible for the deck, but then the download link is for the deck image you can't install on a PC.
  
  Lol, I'd be fine with them leaving it as is, if only they'd make a general release of OS3
- SteamOS 3.0 should get out there for generic PCs pretty soon, in the meantime there's Bazzite.
- It's in the works. Valve is working to develop SteamOS for other devices, including PC.
  
  https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/6/24315098/valve-steam-machines-steamos-steam-deck-vr
  
  It's been "in the works" for years.
  
  Good things take time. But it seems close enough to ready if you didn't accidentally by a ~~Nvidia~~ garbage GPU. You can already run the Steam Deck image on most AMD hardware just fine.
- Just install Mint or Bazzite, Steam OS is intentionally locked down more than it needs to be.

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