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Is SteamOS 3 avalible for PC or it is still only on steam deck?

Preface:
A while ago I had a problem starting applications from my ssh session after switching to desktop mode on the steamdeck (using steamos-session-select plasma). Depending on the application I would get errors like could not connect to display :0' , authorization required but no protocol specifiedand eventualyInvalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key even xhost commands failed because the couldn't get the display. Eventualy I figured out that XAUTHORITY was not getting set. Once I set it manually with the correct file at /run/user/1000/{what ever} ` the problems were solved.

The questions:

1. Why does steamos fail to set that enviornment variable for ssh sessions when switching to plasma. (I've tested killing tmux and closing my ssh session and connecting with a brand new session but it still fails to get set.)
2. Can I start plasma in a way that I can automaticly aquire the correct Magic cookie so I can automate or even semi automate setting that variable in existing ssh/tmux sessions.

Using an external Xbox controller on steam deck I used to be able to access the quick access menu by pressing guide + A, but it somehow got remapped recently. Holding down the guide button to check the list of shortcuts shows guide + A is assigned to "Enter", meaning I can no longer bring up the quick access menu with a controller.

Is there any way to remap this?

Hey

I like to have a PC that is always on so I can stream some indie games from it without having to turn it on whenever I want to play

For other games I have a decent desktop

I have a dl380 g8 server with one 2660v2 and 16g ram running proxmox ve

For gpu I have ordered a Rx 580 and planning to somehow Frankenstein it into the server(no 16x dual slot)

From 16g I can allocate 8g for steam VM

My question is: what is the best os to install for streaming steam games? Something like bazzite or just a win 10 and a normal steam client?

Is 8 gb ram enough or I'm better off adding more ram?

Hopefully someone can help me here because Iam at a lost, recently my email was hacked and I have gone through the steps to recover my accounts but then realised my Steam has completely been taken. Email has been changed and phone is not connected to this

Recover password link doesnt help? Only tells me to make sure my pc is clean, nothing else. How can I recover my account if email has been changed? Have the hackers won

Ok this stuff Is actually driving me Crazy

• If i try to login with wifi do not work
• instead, HE REALLY likes my mobile data on phone

Weird thing Is, i can install stuff linked with the wifi. But i cannot play. He Just want my phone data. So for example:

• use phone data for login (work)
• use wifi to download (work)
• use wifi to play? (Nope!)
• use phone data to play? (Yes)

I Just resetted at factory, and keep not working. What am i supposed to do? Please send help, inuse only Epic to play.

Hello everyone. I currently have an old Ultrabook and was considering upgrading to an Asus A16 AMD advantage edition so that I would also be able to occasionally play games. Notebookcheck.com has a positive review on it and since I like to play games on the coach while connecting my laptop to the tv, I was considering installing bazzite on the second SSD. This way I have a great windows laptop and a portable gaming system with console like UI in one package. I just wanted to know if any of you guys have done this? And whether the experience is any good or not? Because if it’s not a good experience, then I might as well completely cancel this laptop and get another Ultrabook, and play games on my PS5, because I’m not a fan of windows gaming when connected to a tv.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated

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?

I originally posted this in the r/archlinux feed but they have advised me I should be posing this question here - they think it's a Steam OS issue not an ArchLinux issue. They also said I should be using 'flatpak' but, to be honest, I'm just following someone else's guide when I was unable to access NordVPN using Tunneldeck on Decky Loader, so no idea how to do this any other way.

I'm trying to install nordvpn on the steam deck so I can use the mesh net feature (to allow me to access files on my NAS when I'm away from home, not the international VPN feature). For clarity, I am using the process described in this post, which uses pacman as the package manager. This, and other guides, seem to work for others but when I get to the command

sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel

I get the following errors

error: failed to init transaction (unable to lock database)

error: could not lock database: Read only file system

Now, I have confirmed that I have disabled the steam OS read only status as per the guide I'm following. I have also tried the same command while in steam OS dev mode with the same results.

If I ignore the above step in the guide (and the next one: 'sudo pacman -S git base-devel', which also fails in the same way), I can continue with the install but only up to the point when the installation of yay needs to access the fakeroot binary, which can't be found (guessing it is part of the base-devel package). For info, if I also type 'sudo Pacman -Syu' the database synchronisation fails because the database is unable to be locked.

I don't have a problem when populating the pacman-keys (i.e. archlinux and holo).

The command 'sudo pacman -V' says that I have Pacman v6.0.2 libalpm v13.0.2.

I am using Steam OS 3.6.20 (latest stable release), but this issue was present in the previous release also.

Searching the internet for a solution and to better understand Pacman, I came across the Archlinux wiki. Section 3.3 covers the error that I am getting. It says that when Pacman is about to install a package it creates a lock file to prevent other instances of Pacman altering the database at the same time. The file path to this lock file:

/var/lib/pacman/db.lck

does not exist on my system however. There is no Pacman folder in the /var/lib folder and I've not been able to find a db.lck file anywhere.

Scrolling back down the wiki to section 3.6.1 , there is a section on 'Pacman: command not found'. This isn't exactly what's happened to me but it does reference the fact that there should be a /usr/bin/pacman folder, which I don't have (just the file pacman in /usr/bin). I don't recall doing anything like symlinking /var/cache/pacman/pkg but I may have done something accidentally following some other guide for NordVPN or RealVNC I guess. Perhaps pacman became corrupted when having to restart the steam deck when it froze?

So this is where I am. Does it seem like I don't have a full install of pacman (or I have somehow corrupted it?) If so, what is the best way forward for me now. Any sort of advice would be appreciated. Many thanks

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?