{"video_id":"tdR-bxvQKN8","title":"I'm Not Waiting for SteamOS! - Linux Gaming Update 2025","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2025-05-04T14:53:29Z","duration_s":1200,"segments":[{"start_s":0.12,"end_s":6.64,"text":"there's so many rumors swirling around valve lately a new steam controller in","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.48,"end_s":12.559,"text":"mass production steam link on Raspberry Pi 5 new branding guidelines suggesting","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.84,"end_s":16.88,"text":"powered by Steam OS consoles is that for handhelds like this one from Lenovo or","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.08,"end_s":22.0,"text":"is it for the return of steam machine game consoles either way it really looks","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.92,"end_s":27.88,"text":"like valve is ramping up to make a serious challenge to Microsoft's 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Microsoft's desktop dominance and I sure hope they do some of you probably remember that valves teos started as a response to the threat of Microsoft creating a Walled Garden with Windows 8 a threat that not only hasn't gone away but might be even greater than ever with the consolidation of the Xbox and Windows stores there's only one small problem as good as Steam OS is delivering a conso like gaming experience for thousands of PC games even ones that were only ever intended to run on Windows valve still hasn't made a version that's designed for me to put on my custom PC or have they as it turns out Val has been working away in the background preparing Ste OS for its promised official wide release so I think now is as good a time as any to see what the experience is like if you download Steam OS and throw it on your PC it's also a good time to learn about our sponsor Amazon Luna whether you're on the go or on the couch you're covered by the Amazon Luna cloud gaming service use our Link in the description to start streaming games directly to your phone TV and more before you type that comment yes I know I don't need to wait for Steam OS to be a Linux gamer but in spite of what your friendly neighborhood neck beard may claim most Linux dros still involve a lot of manual faffing about to get things working and if Linux gaming is tricky for me you're little cousin Joey mainstream is going to be screwed that is why we need steo projects like Hollow ISO Kera bite and the other one that you're furiously typing in the comments right now are glimpses at a beautiful penguin powered future that could be but the fact of the matter is that barring some kind of Earth shaking change when regular people make the great penguin migration it's going to be on a steam powered train let's see what the setup process is like now I'm no Joey I at least know what a computer is but I want to play my games and my favorite games include ano 1800 and tape to tape not GRUB boot entry simulator I want it to be actually easy as we're filming this there are two ways for a non-developer to get Steam OS 3 option one buy a steam deck easy but you're stuck with a steam deck option two download the Steam deck recovery image flash that to a USB key and install it on compatible Hardware Val is committed to making a proper installer before the the full release but that's the way you do it now less easy and it doesn't help that at the time of filming Googling install Steam OS actually leads you to the build your own steam machine page for the old Debian based Steam OS too from like a decade ago that's kind of rough for Joey though to valve's credit at least it links to the page for the steam deck recovery image so I think we can figure it out we used Rufus to image it to a USB drive booted the live image picked this option to reimage our steam deck then we basked in this glorious wall of fast scrolling text and that's it we've installed Steam OS on our hardware for a total cost of $0 take that Microsoft and thanks gabin but does it work well the thing is we won't know until we reboot because everything that you've seen so far can be done even on unsupported Hardware what do you mean unsupported Linus Linux supports like everything doesn't it well yes but also no Linux is an umbrella term that we use to describe many distinct Computing experiences and it's up to the maintainer of the Linux distribution to decide what it does and doesn't do out of the box and as you'd imagine the steam deck recovery image is developed for well the steam deck first and foremost which results in some key hardware requirements the big 2 being a discreet AMD GPU and an NVMe boot drive to install all to also this is fun during the setup process there is not any kind of prompt for which drive or which partition you'd like to install to it just assumes that you want to totally overwrite the drive of your steam deck so consider yourself warned while I'm throwing out warnings there's also limited firmware included support for Marvel network cards for example is mostly missing and there are some special requirements around sleep modes the tldr though is basically use the hardware that you can find that is most similar to a steam deck if you want to try this for yourself right now for our test system then we went with an AMD ryzen 5 500g on an Asus Prime b550 ma motherboard with 16 gigs of ddr4 memory from gskill that's a big steam Tech now we did notice some mentions of NVIDIA in recent Steam OS patch notes so we did try installing with an RTX 3060 GPU but while we were able to boot the USB drive and we were able to clone the image to the NVMe drive we were not able to continue with the setup process and instead got this garbled screen our mission today does not include troubleshooting drivers or the Linux boot process I don't care if you think it's easy Joey doesn't so we listened to valve and switched back to a Radeon RX 7600 where we had a much better time getting through the actually refreshingly simple setup pick a language pick a time zone pick a network and let it do its thing now I don't know why I get a battery low warning on a desktop but in the grand scheme of things that's a pretty small issue and a few minutes later we can sign in either with our username and password or via the Steam mobile app after a quick scroll and click We're Off to the Races in game mode now you've probably all seen the steam deck interface at this point cosmetically it's basically desktop big picture but valve tries to squeeze out a little bit of extra horsepower by running it on the lighter weight gamescope micro compositor instead of in the full top environment that we'll look at in just a moment the UI is okay with a keyboard and mouse but it's really designed to be navigated with a controller from the moment you boot to the moment you finish your last one more round and then head to bed let's give it a shot oh you got one of my favorite games on here let's go no way is this the new horory steam controller yep definitely a controller ooh these not even analog triggers oh what a terrible shot to them I know I know it sucked boom take that boom take that oh no I think the most remarkable thing about this gaming experience is that there is absolutely nothing remarkable about it this is exactly what it's like to play this game on Windows complete chaos okay we got 10 seconds one last Rush here we go here we go here we go here we go here we go oh I barely even get a shot away you know what you call it barely I call it a shot where's your shot that's what I thought oh this controller feels really cheap can I switch over to a different one I can find something yeah it's probably the controller Jordan it's got to be the it's a controller issue is the dongle in there you have a cable right in front of you you could probably use I mean that's an option I guess oh it's an Xbox controller I mean sure yeah that should work okay here we go here we go theoretically this should just flawlessly work cuz you know Steam OS let's go oh there we go yeah no that makes sense that makes sense yep all good here we go just shoot thank you finally it's such a seamless experience it's kind of mindblowing to me like I know Steam OS has been out for years now at this point but the fact that this just works so flawlessly so effortlessly is mindblowing to me okay break up pass here we go here we go here we go here we go here we go come on someone put the [ __ ] in the neck this is awful well Steam OS won't make you a better gamer that's for sure all right let's play something else installed what do we got hey how about some uh vampire survivors play some casual games oh balls oh balls I'm taking damage I'm taking damage from bats what am I the Joker nothing buddy oh yeah here we go got that King Bible oh let's go here's my king Bible boom boom boom take that zombies you got nothing oh my goodness what in the Sam heck is going on here get out of here you lousy bats man I forgot how hard it is when you don't have all the upgrades and stuff and all the better characters and everything it's freaking hard I need upgrades I can't get my Jewels I need them man I got to set this up in my living room like I have a Windows install that has Steam on it and is configured to launch steam in Big Picture Mode every time I turn it on but I never bother with it because it's Windows and it's just like stupid and tedious and Windows update and just like it's not a console like experience and that's ultimately what you want in the living room you don't want to get up and go find your stupid mouse and keyboard and like you can use a mouse and keyboard we'll talk a little bit more about that later but you don't have to you can just be ready to go that's the Steam OS experience and I'm I am loving this what about all the just like special like steam decky stuff like hardware monitor and stuff like that like can we do any of that what button that the buttons on that controller actually the buttons on the three do oh sorry wrong controller uh hit Xbox 8 no no no I'm going back to the I'm going back to the steam controller okay so I got my three dots here it's all there okay that's that's kind of cool if you don't have a steam controller yeah Xbox button and a we'll bring that up okay it's Xbox button and a yeah all right hey cool well let's disable the frame limit what do we have any of that for performance overlay level oh cool so that's just that like 60 FPS counter that we've got the normal counter thing you would get in Steam deck oh we can enable h HDR I wonder if it's going to work though we can try it and do maternal let's try it and do maternal why does it not look that HDR it's just oh cuz the game's not in HDR okay all right well that'll help cool let's go with ultra and no racing that's probably a better bet Vala has done some work on getting HDR to work in Linux with the steam Deco Leed what I don't know is how well it's going to work on a TV this TV also not the brightest HDR TV so maybe not our our best case scenario for testing in fact honestly it looks not great I do wonder how much of it is the TV though but everything thinks it's HDR maybe this is one area where there's a little bit of room for improvement here hey the game's running great though getting 163 FPS and HDR is something where the Xbox and the PlayStation are going to give you a just works experience then again like I said before I don't know how much of the problem is just the fact that this TV is not very good uh I don't know how to play this game with a controller really you could always keyboard and mouse it but you oh right what am I even doing right now oh let's go all of a sudden you got good right it's almost like there is a superior control scheme no couldn't be oh what where'd you go oh no there we go the bottom line is that for living room gaming most of what I would need is here the the 8bit do controller we tried worked out of the box with its dongle or failing that any modern wired or Bluetooth controller should pick up without too much trouble and I didn't have any issues with networking or sound though your mileage may vary there a little bit like I mentioned before I would say that one glaring problem is that games launch at the steamex native 1280x 800 resolution but this can be fixed by manually setting the system resolution in the settings and then Games should pick that up between Pro and Native Linux versions of games there is a huge library now like Man compared to the last time we did a gaming on Linux video there's an enormous library of games that just work now and while there have been some regressions notably for online competitive titles where the developers don't want to maintain their anti-che on Linux game compatibility has mostly been growing steadily I think with the right Hardware I'm pretty much ready to say that building a Steam OS game console for your living room is pretty awesome however I can totally see why valve has held off on saying the same most Gamers demand more than just my steam game works and there are some essential tools that can't simply be added from inside game mode like Discord and Alternate game stores like goog and Battlenet and hey this is a PC right what if I need to get some actual work done how is desktop mode coming along I guess now is a great time to continue using the mouse and keyboard that I've got right here power and switch to desktop that was quick it looks like pretty much any other Linux desktop although it isn't quite Ste os3 is what's known as an immutable operating system if you already know what that means and you have strong feelings about it steo it's probably not meant for you if you don't know what that means the oversimplified tldr is it means you can't screw it up too badly because it locks down critical system components and it will reset itself when you reboot that doesn't mean you can't install software it just means that you're effectively limited to what's available in their flat pack based discover software Center these flat packs might not be as efficient as if you installed via a package manager but what it shows is that valve learned very well from their community's love of hey how do I fix X and Counterstrike press F10 trolling that has taken place over the years they've made Steam OS pretty hard hard to bung up too badly cuz think about it realistically poor Joey would almost certainly fall for the old rmrf asterisk trick at least once now to be clear there are ways outside of their all applications list here to install software we even found this script on GitHub that allows us to install dozens of non- steam stores but for the joy out there here's a standard disclaimer about running scripts that you find on the internet all willy-nilly I'd recommend that you stick to the the software Center the question is if you do that can you get any real work done here let's see our browsers oh internet there okay web browsers Li wolf Vivaldi Brave just the chromium web browser man there's a ton of options here this is great and if you consider how much of it you do in a web browser these days there's a good chance that we can get a lot of what we need to do done uh what about Discord though we mentioned Discord earlier hey there it is four stars boom install Shameless plug for the LTT commuter backpack we've got a lot more information available on it now but in a nutshell great backpack 150 bucks go for it LTT Store.com what else we got here oh dude oh no we've lost them forever space conet pinballs in here here we go here we go here we go here we go let's go B really B come on come on oh come on on come on come on okay coming back to Discord realistically if you want to be able to use it while you're in game mode you need to add it as a non- steam app in desktop mode first it's not a big deal but it is the kind of thing that could trip up a less informed user you can also do that with other apps like non- Steam games and browsers a browser can really come in handy over time in game mode now of course it is worth noting that since you're not concerned about conserving battery life and squeezing using every last drop of performance out of mobile Hardware you don't actually need to go back to Game Mode at all steam works just fine here on the desktop and as much as I love touchpads and joysticks sometimes a keyboard and mouse is just plain a better way to use a computer with standard peripherals I can happily use my browser and apps just like I would on Windows macOS or any other Linux the slome folder is persistent so you don't have to worry about losing your files when you reboot it just resets the system files so that the turn it off and turn it back on really does work to fix most things and other than that it pretty much just works like I would expect a computer to work pretty much we did run into a funny scenario a little while ago we were trying to get an old printer working with generic drivers and I had a brainstorm that went oh man Linux I bet Linux will work well I'll just grab a steam deck that already has Linux on it and yeah that's when I learned that Steam OS does not include support for printers out of the box and you might come across similar gchas over time let's see if they've added it no they have not neat so steis it's pretty great right now but it's clear that there's a bit of work to be done so what about those rumors we were talking about could new Steam Machines be announced and released at any time absolutely and I think we're due valve has spent years getting Steam OS to the point where it's at they've made some hard decisions along the way but overall it works great on the right hard hardware and it keeps getting better and the playable game library is huge now with no signs of slowing down with that said is steam os3 ready to Dethrone Windows not yet there's enough prickly edges that keep it from being a totally smooth experience and you can make the argument that Windows has a lot of prickly edges too but the difference is that so many more people know how to troubleshoot it so here's what I'd say as on valves to-do list they need a simple installer they need outof thee boox support for a lot more hardware and just one or two more passes of spit and polish also printer support I do believe that they're going to get there though especially if Microsoft decides they want to risk their market share by forcing their store on everyone or if they keep making unreasonable Hardware demands now I think all that's left is to unreasonably demand that you hear this message from our sponsor Amazon Luna Amazon Luna has free games that's right you can get access to games just like that thanks to Amazon Luna a cloud gaming platform that lets you use the Luna app to stream games directly from almost any smart device like your phone or TV all you need is a reliable internet 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