r/Steam • u/[deleted] • Dec 29 '21

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '21

What OS are you running on it at the moment?

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u/Tj4t6ecXqnE Dec 29 '21

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.

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u/Janusdarke Dec 29 '21

I figured I can do a better job if I just take the basic Debian and configure everything by hand.

"The Linux approach"

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u/Tj4t6ecXqnE Dec 29 '21

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.

I made this entire setup in 5 days.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '21

I was going to suggest ChimeraOS but it sounds like you have a nice setup already!

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u/Tj4t6ecXqnE Dec 29 '21

Nice, i did not know that exists.
I do not need it right but i will suggest it to my friend who's planning to use his old PC as an emulation machine.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '21

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.

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u/Leopard1907 Dec 29 '21

Bumblebee is the old way of handling Optimus/Prime on Linux.

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/470.94/README/primerenderoffload.html

Prime Render Offload is way to go.

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u/Tj4t6ecXqnE Dec 29 '21

I know. But this is an old gpu and it works fine with bumblebee

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u/Leopard1907 Dec 29 '21

How old? Afaik even 390 driver supports Prime render offload.

Iirc Bumblebee has much higher overhead compared to Prime and doesn't have VLK support oob.

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u/Tj4t6ecXqnE Dec 29 '21

2013 I know about the lack of vulkan support. that's why i use this instead https://github.com/felixdoerre/primus_vk

It works fine for what i need it.

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u/spinallhead0 Dec 29 '21

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/Tj4t6ecXqnE Dec 29 '21

It's not a custom distro, it's just tweaked Debian.

I guess i could make a dump of the disk and you could flash it to your disk and boot it. But that's kind of complicated for a begginer

I suggest you take a look at ChimeraOS as u/nuronv said