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Linux updates tease Valve 'Galileo' and 'Sephiroth' - Steam Deck refresh? Or new VR? (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Someone in the comments of that article made a note about having a "Steam Brick" that would be a steam deck like console.

I've been investing a lot of time into ChimeraOS and Bazzite for universal Blue lately. I highly recommend building a small form factor PC in something like a fractal ridge with an old 5700XT (or the cheapest AMD RDNA GPU you can find really) and give it a go!

We can all steambox again if we just believe!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I tried installing Bazzite on a couple different computers. It just didn’t work. The Bazzite Portal, which is supposed to come up in first boot, never did. I must have installed it 5 or 6 times.

Clicking on it in the menu did nothing. Running from the CLI makes it come up but one time it just hung on the second or third step with no option to recover (and then wouldn’t run again), and another time it ran through but failed to produce a usable system in any way (again, with no option to recover).

I like the idea but I don’t have infinite time to fiddle with it so now I’m running Ubuntu with auto-login to the gaming user account which starts Steam Big Picture automatically.

It’s as close to a console experience as I can get.

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