Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Controller] - Steam Controller related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
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These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.
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I'm planning to eventually do a fresh Linux install on my Machine which launches straight into Plasma Bigscreen.
Already got the multimedia situation sorted out with HDR, 4k and audio passthrough via Jellyfin MPV Shim. Now I just need to check if the Machine still gets firmware updates when launching Steam even when it is not running SteamOS.
Didn't have time to do the setup yet but I'm planning to replace my Odroid N2+ running CoreELEC with this.
For controlling it I wanted to use my Remote 3 and/or the Steam controller.
What makes you want to change to Plasma Bigscreen? I said it in another comment but one big attraction to SteamOS and/or the Machine is the low power idle state, like a regular console or streamer. Curious how other distros handle this.
I don't really want to use Steam as a launcher. It's proprietary and not the most intuitive when it comes to navigation outside of gaming, and most of the usage will be non-Steam stuff.
I also don't want SteamOS on my HTPC, I want something more open that does not send requests to Valve on every boot. That's fine on my Steam Deck but not on my HTPC.
Will definitely test the power consumption and wake up on Steam Controller power on in third party distros.
I assume the low power carries over since they did a lot of work in the kernel.