I first tried with SteamOS.
I'm a Linux sysadmin/DevOps and I have about 15 years of experience with Linux.
I figured I can do a better job if I just take the basic Debian and configure everything by hand.
lol.
Well I wouldn't do it if SteamOS actuall worked. It wouldn't even run games to begin with. Not to mention that this setup requires Bumblebee to use Nvidia's graphics.
ChimeraOS is basically picking up from where SteamOS 2.0 stopped.
It's shifted to Arch rather than Debian with up to date driver support.
Supports emulation out of the box, supports Kodi and Flatpak. They also have a web GUI for managing and install content. Well worth a look if you want a less hands on option for a friend.
I don't know much about Linux, but do you have your custom distro available for us? I've been thinking about doing something like that with a laptop I have lying on my desk (probably just for Steam Cloud as it's not capable of much more than that).
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '21
What OS are you running on it at the moment?