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Tucked into their FAQ about the Steam Machine release was a mention about making your own Steam Machine by installing steamOS to a computer you already have. AMD only for now.

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[–] edfloreshz@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They should at least allow us to select the hard drive where we want to install the system. It’s completely hostile to multi-drive systems.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The brand new SteamOS image apparently does have an installer, but I'm not sure what installation options it has since I haven't tried it.

Hopefully it does support drives/partitions better than the previous recovery image did.

[–] edfloreshz@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

I will try it out today and let you know

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] nevyn@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago
[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Correction: The GPL gives you the green light to install SteamOS on your computer to create your own steam machine. Valve has no say in the matter. It's cute of the article to think otherwise though!

[–] agelord@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago
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[–] VAK@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Should i put this in my laptop? It's on Ubuntu lts right now and standby is janky.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

For a full desktop experience, something like Bazzite will be better.

That said standby/sleep issues can be nasty to track down, hopefully swapping distros will fix it, but be prepared to maybe have to deal with it on other distros as well. I'm in the middle of having to fix an issue with some ASIX usb network drivers on my desktop, where a recent update started causing loss of network and other issues after sleep.

[–] VAK@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Thanks, will try it out. Damn, having driver issues sounds horrible. Mine just refuses to wake up or go to sleep sometimes. Or frequently takes an oddly long time.

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