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View submission: Questions around building a dedicated SteamOS PC or go with a Steam Deck?
SteamOS Is not ready for prime time on any PC yet. A beta should come soon, in the following months, so you can wait.
If you are feeling adventurous, buy an AMD GPU and try it yourself now. Nvidia is not supported at the moment. An alternative would be to use Bazzite or other Linux distros prepared for gaming, which support Nvidia. I don't have any experience on those but they are frequently recommend.
What I did, which I think is the best path, but it requires much more setup time & Linux knowledge, is to use Arch Linux, the same base OS of SteamOS. On top of that, you can install an Steam standalone session + KDE which would work really similar to SteamOS, including the switch and to desktop option. The advantage is you can update much more frequently and get support from Arch Linux community which is pretty big.
I ran my gaming PC like that. 6800 xt GPU connected to a 4k 55'' OLED TV, which just a Dual Shock controller and it works like a charm. I occasionally connect a keyboard for updating and desktop usage, but 95% of the time is just booting into Steam session, turning on the controller and play. For 4k 120hz + HDR you will need to use DP port and an DP->HDMI adapter, as HDMI 2.1 is unsupported unfortunately on AMD.
Comment by ronni3 at 29/01/2025 at 02:15 UTC
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This sounds like the winning approach. I am not all that familiar with Linux. Haven't really dived deep into it since the very beginning days of Ubuntu, but my son loves it and works off of Linux exclusively so I will get him to build it for me. lol.
Appreciate your suggestion. Now just need to wait for the latest AMD GPUs to be released.
One more question, would I still be able to stream games to this Linux Steam box for any games that are Windows-based? Not sure if I can run all games or a select compatible games versus how it works on Windows.