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

submitted 1 day ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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[–] SoupBrick@yiffit.net 53 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Steam needs to drop a whole OS for PC.

[–] Aussieiuszko@aussie.zone 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown

You can install it yourself on PC.

[–] n1ck_n4m3@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

~~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.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Yeah, Linus didn't actually bother clicking the links. The old OS download links redirect to the arch based steam deck os

[–] n1ck_n4m3@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yeah, Linus didn’t actually bother clicking the links.

Ya know, somehow I'm not surprised to hear LTT didn't do their research

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why anyone ever watched their garbage videos is beyond me.

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[–] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 22 hours ago

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

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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago

SteamOS 3.0 should get out there for generic PCs pretty soon, in the meantime there's Bazzite.

[–] wirelesswire@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I hope they bring SteamOS to ARM eventually.

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