What I’m really waiting for is a Steam box that I can hook up to my TV. I’d buy that in a heartbeat. I really don’t understand why they haven’t come out with one of those yet. Should be much easier to do than a handheld.
There’s an app, i think it only works for android TV, or Google TV, or whatever they call it. Same basic functionality, just dependent on your tv (or whatever thing you use for watching shit on your tv) hardware.
Linux with steam installed running bigscreen mode, auto login(optional), steam launch on login, bluetooth controller.
Done.
I have it setup exactly like this atm and its amazing. Dont have the suspend resume luxury, but everything else like steam link all on a very small n95 tiny pc.
I have the setup you described as well as a steam deck. The deck is a more polished experience with mangohud, game scope, auto updates, and other things I’d have to setup and maintain.
There have been recent leaks that indicate Valve is working on something going by the codename “Fremont” that is basically just that. Also some 3D models of a new Steam controller that’s much more like A SteamDeck without the screen were included in a recent update.
We’ll see though, Valve does have a bit of a problem staying focused on what they were working on when they come back from their holiday break, and sometimes things get cancelled because they lose interest over the break.
What I’m really waiting for is a Steam box that I can hook up to my TV. I’d buy that in a heartbeat. I really don’t understand why they haven’t come out with one of those yet. Should be much easier to do than a handheld.
is that not steam machine?
I liked steam link too but they killed it very sad.
There’s an app, i think it only works for android TV, or Google TV, or whatever they call it. Same basic functionality, just dependent on your tv (or whatever thing you use for watching shit on your tv) hardware.
Box, machine, whatever.
His point is that they did it already. Like 5 years ago?
10 years ago now :O
Sure. But that was then and this is now. Gaming on Linux has come a very long way since then.
With any luck SteamOS will be installable on most pcs and then you can build or buy a steam machine.
Yes, I could just use Bazzite. But i want something that works out of the box.
I think in some aspects Bazzite are better than SteamOS. It literally started as an alternative to SteamOS for the Deck.
Linux with steam installed running bigscreen mode, auto login(optional), steam launch on login, bluetooth controller.
Done.
I have it setup exactly like this atm and its amazing. Dont have the suspend resume luxury, but everything else like steam link all on a very small n95 tiny pc.
I have the setup you described as well as a steam deck. The deck is a more polished experience with mangohud, game scope, auto updates, and other things I’d have to setup and maintain.
You can already do that though??? You just need a dock.
I sometimes connect Deck to TV via dock and play using Xbox controller.
Sure. But the Deck is a bit underpowered for a 4k TV. It would have to be powerful enough to play most games at 4k with some frame generation.
There have been recent leaks that indicate Valve is working on something going by the codename “Fremont” that is basically just that. Also some 3D models of a new Steam controller that’s much more like A SteamDeck without the screen were included in a recent update.
We’ll see though, Valve does have a bit of a problem staying focused on what they were working on when they come back from their holiday break, and sometimes things get cancelled because they lose interest over the break.