What I’m really waiting for is a Steam box that I can hook up to my TV. I’d buy that in a heartbeat. I really don’t understand why they haven’t come out with one of those yet. Should be much easier to do than a handheld.
There’s an app, i think it only works for android TV, or Google TV, or whatever they call it. Same basic functionality, just dependent on your tv (or whatever thing you use for watching shit on your tv) hardware.
Yes, that is what I mean. Installing an OS is just too hard and/or too much bother for most people. If Linux is finally to achieve mainstream acceptance, the product needs to be ready to run as soon as you unpack it. You know, like the Steam Deck. And yes, I could do the install myself, but I can’t be bothered.
Understandable and agreed. Having a steam console to hook up to the TV is probably what most people would buy and find easiest to use. They did try it a decade ago, but it was too early.
Linux with steam installed running bigscreen mode, auto login(optional), steam launch on login, bluetooth controller.
Done.
I have it setup exactly like this atm and its amazing. Dont have the suspend resume luxury, but everything else like steam link all on a very small n95 tiny pc.
I have the setup you described as well as a steam deck. The deck is a more polished experience with mangohud, game scope, auto updates, and other things I’d have to setup and maintain.
What I’m really waiting for is a Steam box that I can hook up to my TV. I’d buy that in a heartbeat. I really don’t understand why they haven’t come out with one of those yet. Should be much easier to do than a handheld.
is that not steam machine?
I liked steam link too but they killed it very sad.
Box, machine, whatever.
There’s an app, i think it only works for android TV, or Google TV, or whatever they call it. Same basic functionality, just dependent on your tv (or whatever thing you use for watching shit on your tv) hardware.
With any luck SteamOS will be installable on most pcs and then you can build or buy a steam machine.
Yes, I could just use Bazzite. But i want something that works out of the box.
I think in some aspects Bazzite are better than SteamOS. It literally started as an alternative to SteamOS for the Deck.
What doesn’t work out of the box for bazzite? Or do you mean literally unpacking a device out of the box and hooking it up to the screen?
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Yes, that is what I mean. Installing an OS is just too hard and/or too much bother for most people. If Linux is finally to achieve mainstream acceptance, the product needs to be ready to run as soon as you unpack it. You know, like the Steam Deck. And yes, I could do the install myself, but I can’t be bothered.
Understandable and agreed. Having a steam console to hook up to the TV is probably what most people would buy and find easiest to use. They did try it a decade ago, but it was too early.
Anti Commercial-AI license
Linux with steam installed running bigscreen mode, auto login(optional), steam launch on login, bluetooth controller.
Done.
I have it setup exactly like this atm and its amazing. Dont have the suspend resume luxury, but everything else like steam link all on a very small n95 tiny pc.
I have the setup you described as well as a steam deck. The deck is a more polished experience with mangohud, game scope, auto updates, and other things I’d have to setup and maintain.
You can already do that though??? You just need a dock.
I sometimes connect Deck to TV via dock and play using Xbox controller.
Sure. But the Deck is a bit underpowered for a 4k TV. It would have to be powerful enough to play most games at 4k with some frame generation.