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Remember the Ouya? This category of hardware projects don't really make sense unless you're at a scale where the price can be competitive. A realistic idea alo

by TillE 4y ago

Remember the Ouya? This category of hardware projects don't really make sense unless you're at a scale where the price can be competitive. A realistic idea along these lines would be like, a custom OS for the Steam Deck.

jeroenhd 4y ago
SteamOS is supposed to be(come) available to the general public and there are boards for sale out there that are practically the Xbox/PlayStation boards without the dedicated hardware running on a Ryzen chip. This project markets itself as an 8K HDR console, so I don't think it's trying to get into the same market the Ouya tried to get into. It appears to be an Xbox for people who own NFTs.
- giantrobot 4y ago
  More like a Phantom[0] for people with NFTs. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Entertainment https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Entertainment
- cassianoleal 4y ago
  SteamOS is available to the general public: https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown
  - jeroenhd 4y ago
    Is that the modern (Steam Deck) version? The page you linked says it's based on Debian 8 while the modern iteration is Arch based.
    - cassianoleal 4y ago
      That's the non-Deck one. Very close to the top of the page there's this: > NOTE: This image is not compatible with Steam Deck. If you are looking for the Steam Deck Recovery image, visit this link. Where the link points to https://help.steampowered.com/faqs/view/1B71-EDF2-EB6D-2BB3 https://help.steampowered.com/faqs/view/1B71-EDF2-EB6D-2BB3 I'm not sure if the Steam Deck image can be installed on a non-Deck system.
      - jeroenhd 4y ago
        My attempts at getting the Steam Deck version to work all failed. You can get the software installed but on reboot the system just seems to freeze. I'm guessing it's waiting for some kind of hardware dependent driver or service to load that isn't available in a virtual machine.
  - simjnd 4y ago
    HoloISO [1] is as close as you can get to SteamOS 3 until Steam ships the official version. From the README : "Is this official? No, but it may as well be 99% of the way there. The code and packages, are straight from Valve, with zero possible edits, and the ISO is being built on the official Steam Deck recovery image, running inside a QEMU instance." You can watch it run on a variety of hardware on YouTube. [1]: https://github.com/theVakhovskeIsTaken/holoiso https://github.com/theVakhovskeIsTaken/holoiso

by TillE 4y ago

jeroenhd 4y ago

SteamOS is supposed to be(come) available to the general public and there are boards for sale out there that are practically the Xbox/PlayStation boards without the dedicated hardware running on a Ryzen chip. This project markets itself as an 8K HDR console, so I don't think it's trying to get into the same market the Ouya tried to get into. It appears to be an Xbox for people who own NFTs.

giantrobot 4y ago
More like a Phantom[0] for people with NFTs. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Entertainment https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Entertainment
cassianoleal 4y ago
SteamOS is available to the general public: https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown
- jeroenhd 4y ago
  Is that the modern (Steam Deck) version? The page you linked says it's based on Debian 8 while the modern iteration is Arch based.
  - cassianoleal 4y ago
    That's the non-Deck one. Very close to the top of the page there's this: > NOTE: This image is not compatible with Steam Deck. If you are looking for the Steam Deck Recovery image, visit this link. Where the link points to https://help.steampowered.com/faqs/view/1B71-EDF2-EB6D-2BB3 https://help.steampowered.com/faqs/view/1B71-EDF2-EB6D-2BB3 I'm not sure if the Steam Deck image can be installed on a non-Deck system.
    - jeroenhd 4y ago
      My attempts at getting the Steam Deck version to work all failed. You can get the software installed but on reboot the system just seems to freeze. I'm guessing it's waiting for some kind of hardware dependent driver or service to load that isn't available in a virtual machine.
- simjnd 4y ago
  HoloISO [1] is as close as you can get to SteamOS 3 until Steam ships the official version. From the README : "Is this official? No, but it may as well be 99% of the way there. The code and packages, are straight from Valve, with zero possible edits, and the ISO is being built on the official Steam Deck recovery image, running inside a QEMU instance." You can watch it run on a variety of hardware on YouTube. [1]: https://github.com/theVakhovskeIsTaken/holoiso https://github.com/theVakhovskeIsTaken/holoiso