I started with Mint about a year ago on my daily driver and it has exceeded my expectations. I’ve put it on a mini-pc as well.
I’ve still got a PCVR machine running Win10 Enterprise. That’s going to get SteamOS when I get around to it.
If SteamOS doesn’t work on your mini PC you can try the CachyOS “handheld” edition. It launches with the Steam game mode front end and looks exactly like SteamOS but has support for more hardware.
I put it on my Steam Deck and it’s been great, bit snappier. I would totally throw it on a HTPC type box and hook it up to a TV.
SteamOS isn’t publicly available and is very unlikely to be fully open source if/when that changes. Your best bet is probably either Bazzite or Cachy (I would say use Bazzite if you still feel like a noob).
Or just get shit running in Mint; it’s very doable. But when it comes to non-steam games, Bazzite is better at working “out of the box,” as it were.
Bazzite is my secomd choice but the SteamOS image has been available for awhile now. It’s intended for Valve devices but my understanding is that people have been getting it to run on regular PC’s. I haven’t been keeping up with the latest news though, so I’m mot sure what the success rate is.
I just don’t see why you’d wanna deal with all that jank to get Valve’s proprietary OS running. In my experience, Steam games pretty much Just Work to about the same degree on any Linux distro thanks to how Proton works. And if you have any interest in non-Steam games, Bazzite is going to be a much better choice than SteamOS.
This box is 100% dedicated to running SteamVR and nothing else. Just makes sense to me to run SteamOS. If it really is janky though I’ll switch to Bazzite. I’m months away from doing anything yet so I’ll evaluate when the time comes.
I’m gonna say I spent 8 months cloning my windows environment and then learning Linux basics, and trying to figure out how to make everything work after I migrated to Linux and now they want to backpedal the bullshit that made me leave windows in the first place?
Fuck you, I’m not walking any of this back. I’ve finally got out of their shitty fucking ecosystem, and I’m actually happy with where I am. Fuck Microsoft, I’m not going back.
Yah they do deserve to be treated like shit. At this point they are willingly participants. MS has been making the experience shittier and shitter and people accept it. If they do roll this back it is only because they are worried.
There are valid reasons for some people to be stuck. For example, work computers they have no control over or niche software that will not work in WINE or Winboat. I know someone who still has Windows 98 because of a piece of ancient embroidering software that no longer exists, will not run on newer versions of Windows, and requires a hardware dongle that doesn’t work under Winboat or WINE. I tried. I spent weeks on it.
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Don’t care. Already switched to linux.
What distro?
Doesn’t matter. They’re all the same. 😏
I started with Mint about a year ago on my daily driver and it has exceeded my expectations. I’ve put it on a mini-pc as well. I’ve still got a PCVR machine running Win10 Enterprise. That’s going to get SteamOS when I get around to it.
If SteamOS doesn’t work on your mini PC you can try the CachyOS “handheld” edition. It launches with the Steam game mode front end and looks exactly like SteamOS but has support for more hardware.
I put it on my Steam Deck and it’s been great, bit snappier. I would totally throw it on a HTPC type box and hook it up to a TV.
Cool suggestion! My Mini-PC is primarily a NAS/Jellyfin server tho, so no need for Steam there. Mint does fine.
SteamOS isn’t publicly available and is very unlikely to be fully open source if/when that changes. Your best bet is probably either Bazzite or Cachy (I would say use Bazzite if you still feel like a noob).
Or just get shit running in Mint; it’s very doable. But when it comes to non-steam games, Bazzite is better at working “out of the box,” as it were.
Bazzite is my secomd choice but the SteamOS image has been available for awhile now. It’s intended for Valve devices but my understanding is that people have been getting it to run on regular PC’s. I haven’t been keeping up with the latest news though, so I’m mot sure what the success rate is.
I just don’t see why you’d wanna deal with all that jank to get Valve’s proprietary OS running. In my experience, Steam games pretty much Just Work to about the same degree on any Linux distro thanks to how Proton works. And if you have any interest in non-Steam games, Bazzite is going to be a much better choice than SteamOS.
This box is 100% dedicated to running SteamVR and nothing else. Just makes sense to me to run SteamOS. If it really is janky though I’ll switch to Bazzite. I’m months away from doing anything yet so I’ll evaluate when the time comes.
Nice for me and you but that doesn’t mean people who can’t switch deserve to be treated like shit.
“I’m alright, Jack” :eyeroll:
I’m gonna say I spent 8 months cloning my windows environment and then learning Linux basics, and trying to figure out how to make everything work after I migrated to Linux and now they want to backpedal the bullshit that made me leave windows in the first place?
Fuck you, I’m not walking any of this back. I’ve finally got out of their shitty fucking ecosystem, and I’m actually happy with where I am. Fuck Microsoft, I’m not going back.
Yah they do deserve to be treated like shit. At this point they are willingly participants. MS has been making the experience shittier and shitter and people accept it. If they do roll this back it is only because they are worried.
Does Linux work with nvidia cards yet?
Or even the other way around. Do nvidia cards work with Linux yet?
There are valid reasons for some people to be stuck. For example, work computers they have no control over or niche software that will not work in WINE or Winboat. I know someone who still has Windows 98 because of a piece of ancient embroidering software that no longer exists, will not run on newer versions of Windows, and requires a hardware dongle that doesn’t work under Winboat or WINE. I tried. I spent weeks on it.