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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by kentonv on Thursday January 01, 2026 @07:50PM (#46460077)
Steam supports Debian well.

I download the nvidia drivers directly from nvidia. Their installer script is actually pretty decent and then I don't have to worry about whether the distro packages are up-to-date.

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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by siikanen on Friday January 02, 2026 @06:02AM (#46463607)
I'm curious why bot just boot SteamOS? I'd imagine that being the easiest way to go
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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by kentonv on Friday January 02, 2026 @10:17AM (#46465568)
From what I read, SteamOS isn't really intended to run on any device other than official Steam devices. In particular I read that it doesn't support nvidia GPUs at all, since all official Steam devices are AMD.

Also, I have a pretty unusual setup: my machines netboot from an shared iSCSI volume, setting up a local copy-on-write overlay on each machine.

SteamOS is based on Arch, so I'm sure it would be possible to make it do anything Arch can do. But I don't know Arch -- I know Debian. So I was a lot more comfortable installing Debian and tweaking it the way I needed, then installing Steam on top.

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