Valve have confirmed the Steam Machine's price will be comparable to a custom-built PC with similar performance, rather than subsidised like a console.
All Steam installations include the SteamOS GUI “Big Picture Mode”, so you don’t need to install SteamOS to use the nice console/controller interface. I believe you could just set Steam to launch on startup and also configure Steam to open in Big Picture Mode by default
Gave this a shot… something is horribly wrong with my system, for whatever reason steam could read my controller but never responded to any buttons in big picture mode.
Also, apparently my controller works as a mouse though, which is pretty neat.
I’m on atomic fedora, so I’ll try out bazzite (had no idea it was that easy to switch distros on atomic)
I have atomic fedora cosmic, so I’ll see what levers I need to pull to make this work. Maybe I need to add steam to the os tree and break it out of its flat pack.
All Steam installations include the SteamOS GUI “Big Picture Mode”, so you don’t need to install SteamOS to use the nice console/controller interface. I believe you could just set Steam to launch on startup and also configure Steam to open in Big Picture Mode by default
Gave this a shot… something is horribly wrong with my system, for whatever reason steam could read my controller but never responded to any buttons in big picture mode.
Also, apparently my controller works as a mouse though, which is pretty neat.
I’m on atomic fedora, so I’ll try out bazzite (had no idea it was that easy to switch distros on atomic)
Well I know what I’m doing after work this week.
I have atomic fedora cosmic, so I’ll see what levers I need to pull to make this work. Maybe I need to add steam to the os tree and break it out of its flat pack.
Thank you for the tip!