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So, I guess its plays only games from Steam? I'm curious, does every game on Steam run on SteamOS? cus SteamOS is Linux.

Underphil 5y ago
I've had great results with their WINE/Proton layer.
- IggleSniggle 5y ago
  Just thought I'd mention, that I have not had great results with this. But presumably it'll be a different story when supporting one known specific hardware shared by many Steam users.
dantondwa 5y ago
Thanks to Valve and Proton/Wine, my games run great on Linux now, in most cases. So, I can say I'm really satisfied. We're certainly miles ahead of, say, 5 years ago.
heelix 5y ago
I ran Steam on Centos. You had to do some conversion to get the Steam app into an RPM format (or use one of the relases that did it for you). I've messed with it on Centos, Ubuntu, and even played with SteamOS. Last time I did this with Centos 8 and the AMD proprietary drivers, it looked like this sudo yum update -y (reboot) sudo yum install -y kernel-headers-`uname -r` kernel-devel-`uname -r` sudo dnf -y install --nogpgcheck https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.... https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-8.noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-relea... https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-8.noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/rpmfusion-nonfree... sudo dnf config-manager --enable PowerTools sudo yum -y install dkms sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo=https://negativo17.org/repos/fedora-steam.repo https://negativo17.org/repos/fedora-steam.repo sudo dnf -y install steam kernel-modules-extra libva-intel-driver (reboot) ( https://www.amd.com/en/support https://www.amd.com/en/support, grabbing the RX580 driver) tar -Jxvf amdgpu-pro-19.50-967956-rhel-8.1.tar.xz cd amdgpu-pro-19.50-967956-rhel-8.1/ ./amdgpu-pro-install -y (reboot) Mind you, you don't need the AMD propriety drivers. I'm also still trying to figure out what my long term home will be for my workstation once Centos 8 becomes Centos Streams.... so will be seeing if Rocky or one of the others becomes my long term home.
- ranger207 5y ago
  Just curious, why not Fedora?
  - heelix 5y ago
    At the time, we wanted the workstations to match with the servers. Docker sort of made that a non-issue now.
schmorptron 5y ago
Nope, you can also install any other linux app / game on it. Or even an entirely different OS. SteamOS is arch based, so you can probably just pacman install whatever you please.
- everyone 5y ago
  Is it actually a PC? Could I just put windows on it? Also as per installing any other linux stuff, Can u plug a keyboard into it so u can type in terminal? Otherwise how would u install stuff?
  - depressedpanda 5y ago
    Yes.

Underphil 5y ago

I've had great results with their WINE/Proton layer.

IggleSniggle 5y ago
Just thought I'd mention, that I have not had great results with this. But presumably it'll be a different story when supporting one known specific hardware shared by many Steam users.

dantondwa 5y ago

Thanks to Valve and Proton/Wine, my games run great on Linux now, in most cases. So, I can say I'm really satisfied. We're certainly miles ahead of, say, 5 years ago.

heelix 5y ago

I ran Steam on Centos. You had to do some conversion to get the Steam app into an RPM format (or use one of the relases that did it for you). I've messed with it on Centos, Ubuntu, and even played with SteamOS. Last time I did this with Centos 8 and the AMD proprietary drivers, it looked like this sudo yum update -y (reboot) sudo yum install -y kernel-headers-`uname -r` kernel-devel-`uname -r` sudo dnf -y install --nogpgcheck https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.... https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-8.noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-relea... https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-8.noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/rpmfusion-nonfree... sudo dnf config-manager --enable PowerTools sudo yum -y install dkms sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo=https://negativo17.org/repos/fedora-steam.repo https://negativo17.org/repos/fedora-steam.repo sudo dnf -y install steam kernel-modules-extra libva-intel-driver (reboot) ( https://www.amd.com/en/support https://www.amd.com/en/support, grabbing the RX580 driver) tar -Jxvf amdgpu-pro-19.50-967956-rhel-8.1.tar.xz cd amdgpu-pro-19.50-967956-rhel-8.1/ ./amdgpu-pro-install -y (reboot) Mind you, you don't need the AMD propriety drivers. I'm also still trying to figure out what my long term home will be for my workstation once Centos 8 becomes Centos Streams.... so will be seeing if Rocky or one of the others becomes my long term home.

ranger207 5y ago
Just curious, why not Fedora?
- heelix 5y ago
  At the time, we wanted the workstations to match with the servers. Docker sort of made that a non-issue now.

schmorptron 5y ago

Nope, you can also install any other linux app / game on it. Or even an entirely different OS. SteamOS is arch based, so you can probably just pacman install whatever you please.

everyone 5y ago
Is it actually a PC? Could I just put windows on it? Also as per installing any other linux stuff, Can u plug a keyboard into it so u can type in terminal? Otherwise how would u install stuff?
- depressedpanda 5y ago
  Yes.