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View submission: Questions around building a dedicated SteamOS PC or go with a Steam Deck?
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.
Comment by lucholeveroni at 29/01/2025 at 02:26 UTC
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Haha, that's a good idea. Tell him to install a plain Arch Linux, with a KDE and Gamescope Steam big picture Session, from the AUR. Also choose RADV mesa drivers and Wayland. Those are the key components and decisions to be made.
Regarding your last question, not sure if I understand you. Steam client comes with Proton support, which allows you to play Windows games, just like Steam Deck. You don't need to stream them from another machine. There is built in stream option though in Steam, like in the Deck.