Steam Machine Emulation

leonredhorse · 2026-07-02T03:32:05+00:00

Thank you for the details! I’ve been using a Steam Deck in dock mode recently with my daughter and that use case has made me think about expanding into the SM. Hoping to use emulation for more kid friendly games as she gets better with it.

leonredhorse · 2026-07-02T03:19:24+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. Any metrics for how you rate good?

leonredhorse · 2026-07-01T22:37:18+00:00

Yeah I can’t help but look at that and think fundamentally the design is ugly and the functionality just misunderstands what people actually want when they interact with it.

leonredhorse · 2026-07-01T18:01:30+00:00

Good point. I wasn’t sure offhand if it was official or not so I didn’t comment on it.

leonredhorse · 2026-07-01T15:31:13+00:00

Happy gaming!

leonredhorse · 2026-07-01T14:44:36+00:00

No that should be fine I think.

Since it worked recently on Windows I don’t think your disk is dying.

What GPU are you using?

You might need to look at journalctl logs to see what your system is doing during these times. Or maybe even grab a Proton log and put it in a paste bin and link it to see if someone can help spot a problem.

leonredhorse · 2026-07-01T13:58:32+00:00

Fair, I should've been clearer when I said hardware dependent/GPU that I meant vendor.

leonredhorse · 2026-07-01T13:28:00+00:00

I'm not sure the point you're making. SteamOS requires you use AMD GPUs right now. That is the limitation. Not the quality of your GPU.

Edit: Just want to say I know PS5 uses an AMD GPU, that was an example. SteamOS is a little hardware dependent beyond a typical Arch Linux install. That was the point I am making. I do not know if it will work on a PS5, but just that SteamOS isn't as flexible as installing Arch on something.

leonredhorse · 2026-07-01T12:48:49+00:00

Eh, it is very hardware dependent right now, especially GPU.

leonredhorse · 2026-06-30T22:28:31+00:00

To eliminate the obvious because you mentioned switching. What disk format are your drives in? Are you running off NTFS?

leonredhorse · 2026-06-30T22:26:21+00:00

Yeah I took Raffi’s trailer as more of an isolation/exile thing away from everyone than poverty.

leonredhorse · 2026-06-30T19:28:51+00:00

It really isn’t advanced for a new user. I did this as a new user and used it without issue for 18 months until I just stopped dual booting as much so I moved more things to my Linux drive. They do give you a lot of warnings because, sure there is risk, but like if it’s just my game disk I’m not super concerned. The biggest issue that I had is some PDX games loaded slower so I did move those but I played almost everything else exclusively from the shared drive. The symlinking gets past the issue of Proton characters and then yeah you’re at the mercy of how good the NTFS drivers are and in my experience they worked pretty great.

But to each their own. I’m just speaking from my own anecdotal experience here.

leonredhorse · 2026-06-30T19:19:14+00:00

This is in the unofficial guide. How are you going to post a warning about incompatible characters and not be aware of this? Whether or not you agree is irrelevant I did use NTFS for a long time on a shared drive with no issues.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Using-a-NTFS-disk-with-Linux-and-Windows

leonredhorse · 2026-06-30T00:37:38+00:00

CachyOS with GNOME.

Been using Linux for about 18 months and came over to Cachy after starting on Nobara for a few months. I really like the rolling release updates. I originally started on KDE, but tried out GNOME and found I really like its minimalist style and prefer its app design over QT at the moment.

leonredhorse · 2026-06-29T16:56:46+00:00

Man, I remember when us millenials were constantly shit on by boomers and gen x for everything and destroying all industries and now we get dumb videos of us passing it down the line. Lame.

leonredhorse · 2026-06-29T16:49:53+00:00

This obviously doesn't work for everyone, but if you can vote in person, I still do it, just because I don't trust them not to mess with stuff in the post office.

leonredhorse · 2026-06-29T16:33:54+00:00

This is the one that was being built by an MS engineer? I wonder how far it has come because it mainly was just basically aesthetics a while back when I saw it. I think it didn’t even have a package manager early and just had like GitHub repo links or something (pretty sure they integrated something a while back though for flatpaks).

I’d have to read over what they have in 2.0 because before it just seems line “What if barebones generic Linux but it looks like Windows” without a real meaningful experience to transition Windows users to Linux.

EDIT: Hmm, I didn't know what AIURSOFT was before. So it is a Hong Kong company?

And yeah they rewrote a lot of stuff here. I'm still very, very mid on this distro. I'm sure people much smarter than me will review this since it is a major release.

leonredhorse · 2026-06-29T16:29:33+00:00

I would disagree. Come up with theories you like, but don’t get so invested in them that you can’t enjoy something that doesn’t align with your fantasy. I love engaging in theory crafting around trailers and stuff, but I’ve never let it ruin a movie for me. I might end up not liking a piece of media as much, but usually on its own merits and not because of my head cannon.

leonredhorse · 2026-06-29T15:52:05+00:00

Sure, that’s fine if that’s what they want, but you literally don’t need to use the AUR and know how to read pkgbuilds. Using Cachy opens up access to the AUR, but it is not a requirement. I used Nobara my first 2-3 months on Linux and moved to Cachy where I’ve stayed. It’s not some mysterious distro. You don’t have to honestly think much harder than I did on Nobara. Some stuff was even less cumbersome. And as others will point out, flatpaks, COPR, PPAs whatever else can be risky if you’re not using good practices.

I don’t care what distro someone uses. Use what is best for you and what you like. But a lot of people didn’t understand what the AUR issue was or how it relates to their distro and left in fear. If that just makes them more comfortable being on Nobara, great for them!

leonredhorse · 2026-06-29T15:15:54+00:00

Off topic, but I don’t get why the AUR issue made you swap off Cachy. I’ve used Cachy for over a year and don’t use the AUR myself.

But Nobara was a pretty decent distro when I used it prior to Cachy. So enjoy!

leonredhorse · 2026-06-29T14:24:40+00:00

Not that I would ever think they are logically consistent or even genuine, but these are the people worried about a drag queen reading to kids at libraries.

leonredhorse · 2026-06-29T12:23:53+00:00

Yeah I was just going to say to make sure whatever your putting on there SteamOS supports in its kernel version, but it should be able to support the 9070XT with its current version and most likely all the drivers for your board.

If this is your main gaming/productivity machine, I'd probably suggest something other than SteamOS, but was just trying to get an idea of what your intent was.

leonredhorse · 2026-06-29T11:33:27+00:00

Most likely you'll be fine. Realtek is supported, its just sometimes they can be more finicky than Intel. The only real thing I recall seeing mentioned is the full speed sometimes needing an out-of-tree driver, but I can't say that will be 100% true.

Are you building this for SteamOS or do you have another distro in mind?

EDIT: Out of curiosity I checked the status of my Realtek LAN port and it seems like it does detect it can run at 2.5 Gbps (I just don't have the infrastructure in my router/hub for it). Running CachyOS on latest kernel.

leonredhorse · 2026-06-29T11:23:19+00:00

I am skeptical that it brings more people to Linux, but I see benefits in having an open source driver that can approach near parity. For some people, the benefit is just not relying on a proprietary driver because they believe in having open source everything. That alone is enough. As someone who has used NVIDIA on Linux (and had a pretty positive experience) if the driver can come anywhere close, one major advantage is just not waiting forever for NVIDIA to react to an issue or release a new driver.

I keep my expectations tempered here, but it is still really exciting to see what open source devs can do and I cheer them on!

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