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While I am happy to hear this, this is par for the course for Valve. The Steam Machines were also equally open, and the (otherwise streaming-focused) Steam Lin
by Nullabillity 5y ago
While I am happy to hear this, this is par for the course for Valve.
The Steam Machines were also equally open, and the (otherwise streaming-focused) Steam Link supported sideloading.
- j1elo 5y agoI still use my Steam Link, and still love how smooth and easy it is to bring the game picture to my living room's TV. (wow that sounded like a commercial) btw to this day it still receives updates! But, what were people sideloading on it? any alternative usage that might be interesting to explore?
- Fnoord 5y agoIts just a small computer, really. You can even run Steam Link on a Pi if you prefer (Steam Link are not made anymore AFAIK). So I suppose you could argue the reverse: run something on it which you'd otherwise run on a Pi.
- thefunnyman 5y agoIt can run Kodi and Retroarch natively. They released an SDK for it but it kind of flew under the radar.
- j1elo 5y agoWait you can get to run Kodi on the Link? I might be missing on some fun there... guess it's time for me to do some searching!
- Nullabillity 5y agoIt's one of the official SDK examples: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk/tree/master/examples/kodi https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk/tree/master/e...