tldw : 9800X3D, RX 9070 XT, 32g ddr5, SteamOs.

In The SteamOS installation guide it says you need an at least 8 GB USB stick. but because the image is about 8.120.000.000 b big, and a 8 GB usb stick is at least 8.000.000.000 b, which is less, it wont fit. i bet they can compress it a bit or hand out different images depending on the thing you want to do, and not one for all so they can fit on a 8 GB USB stick.

allso unrelated: Google Gemini sucks, it just told me to reinstall the bootloader when i had a graphics issue. it took a 53 page conversation for literly no progress.

Like a lot of you, I absolutely love the Deck, but I’ve always felt that the standard 2D grid library lacks a little... soul. I really missed the nostalgia of looking at a physical game collection on a shelf and flipping through cases to decide what to play. So, I decided to build something to fix that!

Introducing Finally 3D Game Cases ✨—a brand new Decky Loader plugin designed to bring your digital Steam library to life.

Instead of just scrolling through flat tiles, this plugin transforms your UI, rendering your games as actual 3D cases sitting on a virtual shelf right inside SteamOS. I wanted to keep the design clean, fast, and native to the Deck's interface while adding a massive boost to immersion.

Here is what it currently does:

• 🕹️ Immersive 3D Shelf View: Scroll through your collection with fully rendered, interactive 3D game cases. It gives your digital library a premium, tactile feel.

• 🎨 Fully Customizable Case Art: Don't like the default cover? You can easily swap out the box art to perfectly match your aesthetic or use custom community grids.

• ⚡ Smooth, Native Integration: I built this to feel like it shipped straight from Valve. It’s lightweight, blends perfectly with the native SteamOS UI, and doesn't bloat or clutter your screen.

• 🛠️ Open Source & Active Development: I'm actively working on adding more features, fixing bugs, and optimizing performance based on what you guys want to see.

Where to get it:

You can check out the source code, grab the installation instructions, and see what's planned for future updates over on the GitHub repo here:

👉 github.com/otisabiburada/finally-3d-game-cases-plugin

This is still an active project, so if you run into any quirks or have ideas you'd like to see added, drop a comment or open an issue on GitHub!

I CREATED THIS PLUGIN WITH CLAUDE JUST FOR MY PERSONAL USE, BUT WANTED TO SHARE IT, IT IS MADE WITH THE HELP OF AN LLM. PLEASE KNOW THAT BEFORE USING IT. HAVE FUN!

I've noticed Valve has been completely silent on SteamOS 3 coming to desktops, also noticed microsoft has been playing really nice with steam and releasing all their stuff on their platform, anyone think Microsoft may have done so in agreement that steam doesn't release their OS?

Last week, I very excitedly disposed of Windows 11 and went full SteamOS on my main PC. However, after some issues I went back into Windows 11.

So straight to the point: games ran very poorly on SteamOS for me. I have a 1440p 240hz Ultrawide OLED display (7800x3d cpu and 7900xtx gpu) and the games just didn’t perform as well as they did on Windows. I triple checked every possible setting, and nothing would make the games run better.

What I mean by “running poorly” is that games’ colors were not as good on SteamOS. FPS also wasn’t as good, let alone any better. The whole point was that games would perform better and that just wasn’t the case for me. On top of that, having to find a workaround for certain applications that don’t natively run on Linux was a bit annoying.

The only reason I switched to SteamOS was to have my games run muchhh better and to have the full experience of the Steam UI but honestly big picture mode fills that same purpose and CSS loader (UI customization) also works flawlessly on Windows 11.

If you want the full “console” experience on PC Windows 11 just run big picture mode on startup and customize it with CSS loader.

Maybe this won’t be, or isn’t your experience on SteamOS PC, and maybe I wasn’t smart enough to fix certain settings (even though the whole point of SteamOS is to plug and play) but just wanted to share my experience.

Pls don’t flame me lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEhBzX-6Fj chromebooks next

Can Valve partner up with Discord to get an official Discord integration with the Steam side menu, please like they have for console?

I would love to be able to install SteamOS on my gaming PC without Windows. Does Valve have any plans for releasing SteamOS for download in the similar way that Windows and Linux is available for everyone to download?

I can't be the only person out there that has a decent gaming system and would love to get rid of Windows, install SteamOS as a dedicated install.

Idk why I thought this would be a good idea but, hey, it was worth the shot-

I installed steam os from the recovery image on an SD card anddddd yeah. It went pretty much how you would expect.

I set out to make the least expensive SteamOS powered Steam Machine that I could.

This is by no means a device that is inteded to run the latest triple A games. But a neat setup nonetheless.

I am curious what everyone else has installed SteamOS on?!

https://youtu.be/plrmbHSq9U0

I've read multipule articles talking about a new deck releasing in mid-late 2025. Is this (offically) confirmed and what would the prices be?

Is this it? I haven't noticed any changes or improvements to SteamOS for quite sometime... all the updates seem to be fixing the odd game or two and playing catch up with the Debian boys... which let's be honest... that's going to be a continual thing.

I'm using the beta so I can try and test new things, report back, be a part of making something great. not just be a number on stats that will be as surprised as everyone on other platforms when new (probably broken) features get added... if they do at all...

I get excited when I boot and there is an update... nothing new... look at the change log... nothing great. if this is released next year they have allot of work to do. And at the rate it is going... its looking like SteamOS 3... :/

Apologies if this does come across as lazy and has been asked before. But I'm really looking forward to being able to turn my PC into a console - as much as possible. The reality is my PC is superior to my PS5 in most ways, games available, performance. But there's something about being able to lie down on my sofa, against the big screen and just cozily play my games. And that is why I still primarily game on my playstation. But the day I can replicate that experience is the day where I can break free of sony's vendor locking. SteamOS looks promising, but I really only think it matters if they support a general release, otherwise it will forever be a niche, thing that requires hackarounds and just won't give that comfort, no headache setup that you can just trust.

I am not a huge Linux user, but GNOME looks very plain and boring, even compared to something like Unity. I know it's still in beta and this may not have been their primary focus but if the final product ships with nothing more than being a plain linux distro with a button to launch Steam in Big Picture mode, it just seems unpolished. I think the average person is going to be a little underwhelmed.

The installation process also could use a rework, it is not exactly easy for the average consumer.

So I've been using Windows casually since like XP. I always been annoyed by it. Just feels like things always get lost or are never where I expect them to be. Just gets cluttered and confused in layers. Always feel the need to micromanage if I don't want to lose things.

The only OS I never had issues with was MacOS for the short time it tried to use it and it just seemed to click and make sense. Especially because I could just use finder and type what I was looking for an 90% of the time it would pull up what I was trying to find. Which search on windows never seemed to be as useful.

Then there is things like what's going on in this picture where sometimes I'll download something, try to run the .exe and it'll ask me what to open it with? Like what? What does it mean? Most times .exe's just start. I've downloaded Fluffy before and it never asked this? Windows would do that too with somethings.

So anyway eventually I want to dump windows on my main PC for something like SteamOS at some point just because I'm interested in it.

Any good tutorials to really understand the OS? Do you all find it as convoluted as Windows or is it easier to use? Anything Linux based that is more streamlined as MacOS?

Hey guys, first time writing here because I feel like I'm out of options.

My goal is to simply install SteamOS on my secondary M.2 SSD within my system.

My specs:

RX 7900GRE
Ryzen 5 7600X
32GBs of DDR5 6000 CL30 from Corsair

Full AMD system, should have no problem with installing it.

Here is what ends up happening when I try to boot into the image from a flash drive.

I boot into the flash drive, I get a bunch of terminal lines and OK across the board, I get the Welcome to SteamOS message and at some point the lines get stuck either on: "Finished SteamOS Boot Registration" or "Graphical... something Adapter" (can't remember the exact wording)

After that I either get a black screen with an "_" at the top left that doesn't flicker which makes me think it starts hanging and after 2 - 3 minutes i get a cursor, but no desktop. The cursor is either extremely laggy, completely stuck or very smooth.

And after that, no matter what I try to do, there's no light at the end of the tunnel, I can never boot into KDE Plasma.

Things I tried:

- I tried re-flashing the image 3 times, twice with Rufus and once with BalenaEtcher
- I got the image file directly from Steam, the official one
- Tried only 1 monitor with HDMI at 60Hz
- Tried directly through the iGPU of my CPU
- Tried with the iGPU disabled through the dGPU
- Tried without XMP on
- Tried with a different brand new working flash drive
- Tried Ctrl + Alt + F4 that prompted a CLI and the steamdeck login (50% of the time it would ask for a password and it wouldnt let me enter at all, and the other 50% it wouldn't ask and I could type in commands)
- Tried commands like steamos-session-select plasma-wayland (persistent, etc.)

I'm at a loss, I really want to install SteamOS to make a YouTube video about me trying to daily drive it for a week to see what its like. I'm not a linux noob and I've installed numerous distros in the past and while I have encountered some issues with some installations, nothing of this sort has ever happened.

My main theory is that due to the lack of wide hardware support, maybe my configuration just doesn't like SteamOS at all or it just can't initialize the GPU driver properly to show the DE.

Either way, I'm in need of some advice as troubleshooting this has put me way behind schedule.

I've attached some videos of me showing exactly what happens.

Thank you in advance!

P.S: I just noticed I can't submit videos, so I'll just use some screenshots.

Asking this because I've bought a new laptop and gonna put steam os on it wondering if it would detect cracked games and maybe ban my account?