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I decided to ditch windows. Installed Budgie, and I installed Steam. What is the advantage of Steam OS or Bazzite over Ubuntu variant + Steam?
Could this replace a media center like Kodi for playing music and movies or is it just for games?
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Hi, I'm the original creator of this project. I'm happy to say the motivation is purely organic, we've no backing and have never received donations of any kind, project is totally out of pocket. Originally I wanted something akin to SteamOS that allowed packages to be installed and maintained through updates, and knew Fedora could offer that after using Silverblue for about a year, and it just kept evolving and growi…
Do you know of NixOS and jovian NixOS? Did you consider either of those? I may compare them in detail in the future, any thoughts on how they compare?
This looks interesting, but what do I lose by switching to it? Does the Steam interface still work? The hardware? The games?
Yep! Everything works as it does with SteamOS but better (more fixes) and a better desktop environment. Installation is pretty quick too! Here’s a video I made showing the process https://youtu.be/doQW1FyAISQ
Love it! Living-room media servers will be the Trojan horse that brings self-hosting back into existence, and will inevitably transform the internet back into a more peer-to-peer oriented existence. Once most folks have symmetrical connections and powerful Linux systems, it’s only a software problem keeping people from using the internet as it was intended, equally publishers as they are consumers.
I've tried at several points to roll my own media center PC/server setup and it's always been a very far cry from what the fire stick does for like a tenth the price and zero effort. So yeah, I'm very keen for something plug and play in this space.
I have a repo that uses a Harbormaster (a Comppse-based deployment tool I wrote, https://harbormaster.readthedocs.io/) to set everything up and keep it up to date, so all you need to do is run the Harbormaster container, point it to the above repo config, and the apps will run. Then, you just need to configure each app, but the directories will be set up properly.
It's a bit of work, but probably not as intimidating as it sounds.
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Okay, so I read that page and I understand that nvidia graphics are very much a no-go for that distribution. I’m just wondering why? Full disclosure, I know very little about the finer points of GPU compatibility on Linux, but why isn’t it just a matter of installing nvidia’s closed source packages?
IIUC As the SteamDeck does only use AMD GPUs they have no incentive to support their UI on Nvidia GPUs.
Proton has received patches for Nvidia support in particular, some from Nvidia themselves.
What does OCI mean in this context? My best guess is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, but that doesn't seem right...
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> But I suppose there won't be optimizations for any combinations of GPU/CPU/RAM like Valve and AMD do for the Steamdeck? I run a homegrown gaming htpc with an R5-5600, Radeon 6800XT, and then the Xbox wireless dongle and 4 Xbone controllers with Bazzite. You'd be surprised at how much of heavy lifting is done by the kernel and mesa stacks, that's where the real work is done. Fedora does a good job pulling in kernel…
I've also built myself an HTPC for gaming on, and it works amazing since Valve gave us the Steam OS 3 UI. However I did it a while ago and went down the HoloISO route. Would you recommend that I switch out for something like Bazzite, or are the benefits good but not *that* good that I'd have to spend a day reinstalling all my games?