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.
Wasn’t that always allowed?
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
“Savvy” is both the noun for the trait and the adjective for someone who possesses it.
I’ve never seen a computer that’s a Radiator. Thank you everyone have a great evening
When they release steamOS for ARM, I’ll throw a party
When the Steam Frame comes out we should get an ARM SteamOS recovery image, but it will probably only be for the Frame hardware. It’s possible that Valve will have prioritized wider hardware support for it though, since that’s something they’ve been actively working on with regular SteamOS.
They should at least allow us to select the hard drive where we want to install the system. It’s completely hostile to multi-drive systems.
The brand new SteamOS image apparently does have an installer, but I’m not sure what installation options it has since I haven’t tried it.
Hopefully it does support drives/partitions better than the previous recovery image did.
I will try it out today and let you know
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Should i put this in my laptop? It’s on Ubuntu lts right now and standby is janky.
For a full desktop experience, something like Bazzite will be better.
That said standby/sleep issues can be nasty to track down, hopefully swapping distros will fix it, but be prepared to maybe have to deal with it on other distros as well. I’m in the middle of having to fix an issue with some ASIX usb network drivers on my desktop, where a recent update started causing loss of network and other issues after sleep.
Thanks, will try it out. Damn, having driver issues sounds horrible. Mine just refuses to wake up or go to sleep sometimes. Or frequently takes an oddly long time.
