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If you don\u2019t get lucky with Valve\u2019s Steam Machine reservation system<\/a>, you can make your own Steam Machine<\/a> instead. Valve says that \u201cstarting with the SteamOS 3.8 release, you can put together your own Steam Machine using whatever PC parts you want.\u201d SteamOS 3.8.10 launched last week<\/a> with a slew of updates, including \u201cimproved compatibility with recent Intel and AMD platforms.\u201d Alongside that improved compatibility, Valve is giving gamers the green light to install SteamOS on their own desktops.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In an interview with The Verge<\/em>, Valve\u2019s Pierre-Loup Griffais said Valve has been \u201crolling out improvements to [SteamOS] so it\u2019s more compatible with desktop hardware,\u201d including eventual support for Nvidia graphics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Griffais says Valve has \u201ca growing team\u201d working on Nvidia driver support for SteamOS, adding, \u201cWe\u2019re collaborating with Nvidia very closely.\u201d While he mentioned that Nvidia support might not come this year, Griffais emphasized that \u201cit\u2019s certainly something that we\u2019re working on in the background.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s technically been possible to run SteamOS on your own hardware for a while now, but compatibility has been mostly limited to AMD systems. So far installing it has also required using a Steam Deck recovery image<\/a>, a process that, speaking from experience, is much less straightforward than the installation process for most other Linux distributions. Trying to run SteamOS on Intel or Nvidia hardware has not been easy so far.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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According to Griffais, Valve is working to change that, which could mean that down the line, you\u2019ll be able to run SteamOS on just about any gaming PC hardware you want, including Nvidia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For the more immediate future, Griffais says SteamOS in its current state should offer a \u201cgood experience\u201d on console-like PC setups: \u201cIf you have something that is similar to the use case of a Steam Machine, where you have a PC that\u2019s gonna be plugged into a TV, and has a single hard drive that you\u2019re not going to try and dual boot [\u2026] you can put SteamOS on there, and you\u2019ll have an experience that is very similar to a Steam Deck docked or a Steam Machine, with some caveats, of course,\u201d like a lack of HDMI-CEC support. But \u201cthe core bits of the experience are there. The SteamOS graphics driver, the shader precompilation […] you can get at all of that with the SteamOS.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While Griffais mentioned a \u201cSteamOS installer,\u201d he also said it\u2019s not designed for dual-booting alongside another OS just yet. \u201cThere\u2019s not yet an install wizard where you can easily, you know, move another OS out of the way and partition your hard drive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The current SteamOS installation process is still intended to put a fresh OS on a new PC, but Griffais says he imagines \u201ca time where it\u2019s a better experience to install on your desktop and have it coexist with a different operating system.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Building a gaming PC right now will probably be at least as expensive as a Steam Machine due to the ongoing RAM shortage<\/a>. But if you don\u2019t want to wait for a Steam Machine reservation, the DIY route is now an option. You can also install SteamOS on an existing gaming PC that\u2019s running Windows or a different operating system, but you will need to wipe your drive in the process (so back up everything beforehand).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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There are also other gaming-focused Linux distros to try if you\u2019d rather wait for more improvements to the SteamOS desktop experience, like Bazzite<\/a> or Nobara<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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