Steam OS

[Roughneck]

Hi, do you think you’ll eventually be able to install this on your desktop as a Windows replacement?
I’m interested in something like this. I’ve tried Linux Mint and enjoyed it, but I’d prefer something more gaming-oriented that can also handle YouTube, browsing, and email—that’s about all I need.

 

[Bluecube]

You can. It’s called Bazzite. I’ve been using it for the last six odd months on my gaming PC. It’s very gaming orientated in that it drops right into a SteamDeck alike game library but has the easy to access option to go to a normal desktop. It’s superb and I’ll never go back to Windows

 

[santa]

One day you might be able to, sure community efforts like Bazzite exist but it's not quite the same. They're expanding steamos to officially support some non-steamdeck handhelds, some versions of some non-valve handhelds will come with steamos installed by default, but the dream of an official steamos iso is not so set in stone. It's been years since they promised opening up the ecosystem, and they might have meant in the officially licensed to X hardware sense rather than a proper distro iso.

If and when they do round 2 of steam machines is when I expect them to do a standard distro iso, if ever.

 

[Orcvader]

Valve is still working on the standard distro of SteamOS 3 but it's still not ready yet. As mentioned above, Bazzite works well but if you have an Nvidia GPU I found Nobara works better, they have Nvidia specific builds that's more optimised for them.

 

[InfiniteNoise]

As mentioned, there's Bazzite, I even have it installed it on my Steam Deck.

I don't think we'll see SteamOS public release until they can solve the issue where gamescope doesn't work with nvidia, but I think they're getting there.

Also, with Lenovo Legion Go S SteamOS edition release in few months, the public release is probably closer than we think.