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I was given three old Dells and found a box of old PC parts. Used an Inspiron and made an i5 4460, 1x8gb ddr3, evga GTX 1050 2GB build. Tried to put official SteamOS 3.5.7 on it but couldn't so threw on Bazzite and so far I'm obsessed. Need to decide what room and screen it will live in, or if I'll sell it or give it away to family or friends. What would you pay for a set up Bazzite box like this?

Got an 8th gen i5 and i7, some RAM, and a super weird motherboard I need a case or open air bench for. Ot a new motherboard instead lol Also needs a power supply and storage, Add a decent GPU and I got a home theater/Plex/gaming box, probably also on Bazzite. Gonna have to wait on all that though. What do you think that's worth on Marketplace?

Anyone else crash coursing their way through PC building with Linux lately?

Dell Alienware Aurora R6 with a 7th gen i7 and a rx590 GPU. I was loving the performance and the quality of the games on SteamOS. I was prompted to do the latest update, and the system came back with a black screen. An attempt to reinstall from my original USB flash created last month has failed. I suspect that the reinstall is installing the update as well. Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot?

Edit 11/06.
Thanks for the suggestions for the alternative distros... I'll give them a try

I have set it up through konsole twice now, and I would rather have this time be the last, or find a better solution. It appears with every steam deck update, it resets all the stuff with pacman, so I have to jump through a whole other set of hoops to even get to starting working on obs. The reason I can't just use the flatpak is because it apparently doesn't have plugins from what I've seen, and I need the ability to select application audio. Anyone able to help?

Edit: For more context, when I try -Syu it can't lock databases and that prevents it from updating.

Could we get some kind of flag/banner/icon in a corner indicating that a game is locally installed?

I know we can filter games that are locally installed, but that's not all that helpful when I'm trying to curate what games I want on my Steam Deck.

If I enable that filter I can't see the games I don't have installed so I can't look at other games I might want to install. But if I'm looking at my entire library (installed and not) then I have to select a game (or go into the options) to figure out whether or not it is installed.

It becomes very time consuming when I have thousands of games, and I already have a bunch small games already installed.

Hi all, I'm trying to configure Plex to stay awake without input but retain the sleep timer for everything else. Can anyone help me understand why the launch option systemd-inhibit --what sleep %command% doesn't stop the system from sleeping in game mode? It works fine in desktop mode

Hey all, there's a dropdown in game properties called "Game Resolution". How do I add entries to that dropdown?

Additionally, how can I change what's being forced when I set "Default"? As far as I can see, "Default" always means 1280x800 on a Steam Deck.

The reason I want to do that is that I installed a Deck HD screen in my deck - it's a 1920x1200 screen. I'd like the "Default" option to always resolve to 1920x1200 instead of 1280x800.

For more demanding games, I want to run them at quarter resolution. That means 960x600.

You can add new resolutions to xrandr, and some games pick that up. Some games, however, only pick up stuff set in that "Game Resolution" drop down. For example, Baldur's Gate 3. That dropdown has no entry for 960x600, so I have to play BG3 on that specific deck at 800x600. I have a normal deck too, but I find 1280x800 is a bit too much for BG3 on the Deck's hardware.

So my main question is: how do I add more entries to that dropdown? I understand this has to do with Gamescope which is what tells the game what it's rendering to for lack of better explanation. Please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not an expert by far.

Thanks and appreciated

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The steam deck recovery image seems to just work on any computer, its also working on my surface pro 3 :D

I thought I'd give installing via the recovery image another shot on my all AMD system, it's been a couple of years since I last tried. I only had to modify the reimage script in the tools folder to use sda instead of the nvme, as I don't have an NVMe drive installed.

It actually worked! (Game mode works too)

• AMD Ryzen 5 5600X

• AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

EDIT : Title should read "works on MY PC with all AMD hardware."

So, I've been trying with no success to hunt down my old windows roaming file on my old main boot drive. I'm mainly doing this to get at my old .minecraft folder but can't find it anywhere, including with the file search. I know I could easily just pull the drive out and plug it into a window machine to grab the file but I don't have windows computer currently on hand and want to see if there even is a way to access the file through the file explore. If any of y'all got a way to find the file it would be greatly appreciated.

I've really seen an explosion of games that are coming out where they include a demo version of their game. I've been adding a lot of them to my library, and I'd like to make a dynamic collection for those.

It would be great if steam included this as an option when creating a dynamic collection. I tried seeing if there's a "demo" tag and there isn't (but there is one for demons lol). It would really help to not forget or lose sight of all these demo's of games I'm interested in possibly buying, or get rid of the demo's I'm no longer interested in.

A library filter for demo's similar to "installed locally" or "ready to play" would also be great (especially on the Steam Deck).

hi i wanna turn my old laptop to console but idk which steamos distro should i choose for that laptop gpu and i need help because im new to steamos stuff

So I had a “spare” Biostar A10N-8800E lying around and tested the Steam Deck repair image on it and to my surprise it actually works.

I tested it with 2 x 4GB DDR4 and a 128 GB NVMe.

Obviously the performance isn't as good as the Steam Decks performance, but maybe it's a useful information for someone out there.

Long story short, I live in the dorms and to connect to the wifi, they use the cloudpath by ruckus thing. For androids/windows, I just have to download the .exe file they give (which contains the certificate i think). There is a file for linux and it's a .taz.bz2 file and I can't get it to work.

Is it possible?

I have an old gaming laptop that I’d like to convert to a console like experience and connect it to my TV. I love my Steam Deck (LCD), and would like to keep the same interface, and have cloud saves.

What would be the best setup to do this? There are so many SteamOS-like OSes out there, and the Nvidia limitations are in flux right now.

What would you do? What flavour/distro would you use?

Laptop Details:

ROG Zephyrus G Ultra Slim Gaming Laptop, 15.6” FHD, GTX 1660 Ti, AMD Ryzen 7 3750H, 32GB, 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD, GA502DU-PB73

I bought a Steamdeck and I'm using it primarly as a PC. I'm having the issue that when I want to attach a file to the google drive which has an accent, I get always an error. I notice this has something to do with the character encoding from the file names. I've not had this issue in Windows so I'm trying to understand how to fix this small errors.

Thanks!

Been thinking about getting an ROG Ally with Bazzite, but also considering Steamdeck. The steam deck's size is a bit of a negative in my eyes. But I also don't know howw good the SteamOS alternative (Bazzite, or Chimera) experience is on ROG Ally. It would likely be a Steamdeck LCD vs ROG Ally Z1 that I am deciding between.

My use case is interesting. I will likely spend a lot of time with Chiaki, which would benefit from the 1080p screen of the Ally. I currently have a G Cloud, but want to switch to something that has a decent native library. The reason I would put Bazzite on the Ally, is simply because I think it affords a better handheld console experience to windows.

Is there a stable version containing video recording on SteamOS yet? I can't seem to find anything about it right now

I've recently had success installing SteamOS using the repair image (steamdeck-repair-20231127.10-3.5.7.img.bz2).

It works fantastically on my AMD 7800X3D, but I can't get it to install boot on my Intel i7 7700K rig.

I've read threads saying that SteamOS isn't compatible with Nvidia GPUs, but my 1080 Ti works fine with SteamOS. It actually works better than my RX 6800, because the distro seems to have trouble recognizing all the supported refresh rates (3840x2160@120hz has to be added manually, but that seems to be an Arch Linux issue).

The only serious compatibility issue I've had with SteamOS is with the 7700K. After the repair formats the disk and installs, it then reboots to a screen that will sometimes just be corrupted with colored artifacts or end with "watchdog did not stop restarting system".

Has anyone had any success installing SteamOS with an Intel CPU with the repair image?

Can i use this os with my low specs pc, and what's the lowest system requirements

So I heard that SteamOS, ChimeraOS and Bazzite don’t work on PCs with an Nvidia card. Is there a way to install SteamOS correctly with an Nvidia card ?

I have an old gaming PC that I want to turn into a "steam machine" but I can't find any SteamOS 3 distros that support my graphics card, are there any distros that let me run game mode and if not, any way I can setup a linux distro to use big picture mode without any mouse and keyboard input?

Thanks!

The title. I haven't seen any big updates in any channel in a while. Is this expected or is Valve just working on the steam deck less than usual?

I didn't see anyone else mentioning this yet.

There was an update on Mac for Steam. Suddenly it loads up into SteamOS and lets install and run of almost any game.

A few issues with controllers detecting but not being listed in the options and the oddity of a controller being on now kills the trackpad.