Going to give SteamOS a try

[linuxgnuru]

I have a spare 1TB drive that i’ll be using to give steamOS a try; gonna make a review of sorts later.

[strider]

Would have loved to try it, unfortunately my mobo is to old to have UEFI support. Currently considering to upgrade mobo + cpu + ram + psu, but I don’t think it’s worth it, I already have Steam on Linux, what would I have more ?

[Pedro Mateus]

At this point I think it’s better to just install Debian 7.1, sacking its repos and using Valve’s instead.

[Freejack_]

Pedro good suggestion…..thanks.

[strider]

HA! Tonight’s PSA for sure: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/co … s_machine/

[turnover]

I tried SteamOS. meh, guess it could be a nice living room console. My biggest
gripe is that it offers windows only games? Also I keep wanting to increase the resolution on the system menu, hurts my hair to look at. Sound didn’t work for me. I think I will stick with ubuntu for now.

[Freejack_]

Windows only games on a linux native system? Something is wrong there.

[PizzaDude]

it doesn’t offer any windows only games, but you can supposedly stream your windows games from a windows PC to steamos

[Pedro Mateus]

PizzaDude wrote:

it doesn’t offer any windows only games, but you can supposedly stream your windows games from a windows PC to steamos

Not yet.

[linuxgnuru]

well, got it installed and everything (also found out my laptop has uefi; who knew) but no sound at all. Next step is to see if I can copy all the games I already have downloaded to the steamos drive. still bummed about the lack of audio… maybe i’ll see if it’s set to hdmi…

— EDIT —

turns out it wasn’t just me; steam OS is set to only output audio via HDMI unless you enable desktop, then rm -rf ~/.pulse/*

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamu … 828671946/

[Pedro Mateus]

Installing Pavucontrol and remapping the audio to the internal analog is not a valid option?

[kloinka]

Whats up guys? I didn’t hear one whine about the “.zip” packages! you all must be mellowing out in your old age.

[Pedro Mateus]

I extracted it and used mkisofs to create an .iso.

[linuxgnuru]

yeah, except the “idea” is that this is the OS the steam-boxes they plan to sell to people who probably would like to pick where audio goes without having to enable desktop, run a terminal, you know normal linux stuff. If you bought a new PS4 but you have no choice but to use audio via the HDMI you might get a tad upset. like with my setup, my HDMI tv only has 2 speakers so I use my bluray player that has 7.1 surround with optical inputs.

[Pedro Mateus]

That’s the thing, we’re not console tards.

We have our systems set in a certain way and if we are to use some else’s OS, we make it so it works for us. So yeah, enable the desktop and do it proudly!

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