Huh. I never even considered the possibility of putting SteamOS on a laptop/desktop… I have a spare engineering laptop sitting around, might try it.
I completely advocate for it. It costs you nothing but time and disk space. You can still run games from other sources with only slight tinkering.
Open source is so beneficial for humanity and for gaming there aren’t really downsides for tons and tons of games.
You lose all the spyware from microsoft, the incessant mandatory patching and upgrade notifications and loads of other things that provide no value.
Nothing stops you from being able to dual boot windows or run it in a VM either.
AFAIK, VM gaming is still a pain in the ass. You need to jump through a lot of hoops for any kind of GPU passthrough.
SteamOS installs for laptops aren’t supported yet. If you want something alike consider Bazzite
I thought that was still not officially available, only forks or rebuilds of sorts?
What would be the advantage of installing it on a laptop? Can’t you just run steam on Ubuntu or whatever and use Big Picture mode?
Personally I can’t run steam and a game on a my laptops. They’re good enough to run games like subnautica and stalker on wine but steam requires like 1gb of RAM and runs like shit.
Edit: on older Ubuntu lts versions, not 24
Hm so SteamOS uses less resources that the steam app? I assumed SteamOS was just a streamlined way to run Steam?
