Steam OS anyone?

[zixi]

That's it really... anyone tried it?

[DoctorKaizeld]

Try the steam operating system?

[zixi]

Hi - yes, I wondered if anyone has tried SteamOS and if they liked it. :happy:

[smschulz]

steam os? i thought someone was asking if steam would ever make a steam os to compete with microsoft

[zixi]

That'll teach me to be more careful over topic titles... :laugh:

[TheGreatFalro]

I tried it a while back, so I don't know if it's changed any since then, but I wasn't particularly impressed. It really is (or was, at least) just enough OS to run Big Picture. In my opinion, you'd be much better off running a distro you really liked and setting up Steam on that.

[zixi]

Thanks! That's useful. I have a spare machine currently running Mint and Cinnamon and I have toyed with trying Steam on that. But the reality is I quite like Mint and Cinnamon - sufficiently different from Ubuntu and Gnome so as to be interesting but not so different that I can't find anything! Thank you for the insights!

[Striker879]

Zixi ... in my mind's eye I'm picturing one of those old time rock star keyboardists with the keyboards arrayed front and back and stacked so that both hands are on various keyboards. Would this be a somewhat accurate description of your "office"?

[zixi]

Not quite! I do have two PCs side by side (I'd actually forgotten about the other one until recently even though it is on my desk! :ohmy:) It uses a half size keyboard and a very small monitor. The other is larger and I use it for gaming and heating my study.

 

I do get out and do things BTW... I play a musical instrument, weave, braid, grow tomatoes, make paper etc etc and I'm a pretty good cook ; so don't go thinking I'm here with cold pizza and a can of beer... :laugh:

 

But the reality is, having given up Windows I'm really interested in the different distros. My husband buys a Linux magazine which comes with loads and loads of distros and I feel that we ought to try out as many as we can! :geek:

[phoneyLogic]

I tried it once after the first versions were released and as far as I remember it was just like a lightweight debian with includes Steam client.

 

If you are just focused on gaming and don't want to bother too much with linux, this might haved worked.

 

However as TheGreatFalro already said, as a linux user, you'd prefere to have your favourite distro and just install steam there.

 

(For the interested I'd recomment to use Manjaro, Fedora, Debian or Suse, since other distros like Arch Linux or Gentoo are not that user friendly.)

 

To quote https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_under_Linux

 

Debian Steam packages are available for jessie and sid. To install Steam, use apt-get install steam or aptitude install steam. If you are on a non-i386 architecture (e.g. amd64), you need to enable multiarch. Further installation and usage instructions can be found in the Steam Debian wiki article.

 

 

Fedora RPM packages are available from RPMFusion for all supported Fedora releases. The package works fine on both i686 and x86_64 systems and already contains support for the S3 Texture compression library for open source drivers (radeon, intel and nouveau) along with all the required libraries to start playing with Steam games. To install, after enabling the RPMFusion repositories, simply issue a yum install steam or dnf install steam, depending on your Fedora version. Note: There is also a staging repository where additional options are added to the package, like Valve's xpad driver, packages for running the SteamOS client in SteamOS mode and a "noruntime" package to disable the Ubuntu Runtime. These features might not end up in RPMFusion. The repository is available at negativo17.org.

 

 

openSUSE / SUSE Install the RPM package for openSUSE. Further information: https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Team_Fortress_2

Edited January 16, 2020 by phoneyLogic