By the way, that little issue where you need to set the resolution for each game was fixed in an update yesterday!!! Also, I recommend going into display settings and turning off automatic resolution detection there so Steam displays at native resolution, for me it's 4K now!
That's a cool and fun project. It's so satisfying seeing spare parts sprinkled with some used than can make an awesome gaming PC. Even better with trying to make it your very own Steam machine. Great job and awesome video!
Just finding this video. I had some wonkiness with ChimeraOS and HoloISO too. I ended up landing on HoloISO_Tweaked, which is being actively maintained and IMO is a much better experience than mainline. Your point to the Xbox controllers being confusing is one the reasons why I chose PS4 as my controller of choice - when you connect them with steam input running, each one gets assigned its own color on that front LED. I managed to stuff a 5800x3D and a 6950XT in a 22L case and stick it in my media center. It absolutely TEARS UP most anything at 4k, with the rare use of some FSR to keep things buttery smooth. It's an absolute treat. Some of the QoL things I've done to get the best console-like experience: - Wake from sleep with a Bluetooth controller - Custom Fan Curve in OS - Overclocked GPU - Undervolted CPU -Steam download speed fix I don't think it's worth it for everyone...yet. The momentum of these homebrew projects like ChimeraOS, HoloISO, etc, plus the development investment from Valve...it's undeniable. I don't think I'll ever see "The Year of the Linux Desktop" in my lifetime, but the Linux gaming community and experience is only going to grow and improve.
Get an Xbox wireless adapter. You can pair your new Xbox controller without plug in keyboard to be able to enter bluetooth GUI. Just press pairing buttons on both dongle & controller. ChimeraOS are supported the dongle thanks to xone project.
Awesome! Thanks for the solution! Have a question though. With the dongle, did you ever face any issues that Funky mentioned where the controller would disconnect randomly and not show up at all? Also, can multiple controllers with their own dongles be connected and used at the same time?
Hey! I’ve been doing the same thing as you. Chimera was way too buggy and HoloISO, as you discovered was a no go. I was getting the same bugs as you were with Chimera… trouble with launchers and with resolutions. Also it WOULD NOT accept higher refresh rates. Issues with controllers too. I went with Manjaro KDE and had steam start with the PC in to big picture mode. The bugs are basically gone and the experience has been sublime. Make sure to enable compatibility for all games in the Steam settings. It’ll make your life easier. I’m running a 7800x3d and a 7900 xtx on my 120Hz 4K TV. I’ve stopped using my consoles at this point. It’s great! I’m subbing! Hope to see an update video as to how you solved or pivoted to get around these problems! One more note… if you are using an elite controller, make sure to remap your buttons in steam and create a profile. These Xbox controllers are detected improperly by steam to have incorrect button maps. Cheers!
The support for high refresh would be awesome since the TV in my office does 120Hz too. I may have to try Manjaro KDE! Thanks for the sub! I definitely want to make more videos like this one. It's been in the pipeline for months at this point and I really just wanted to push it out since I've noticed a lot of other creators talking about ChimeraOS. I'm using just a regular 'Series' controller that I got in a custom color, and they Bluetooth experience has been 'fine' but I really need to try to find my wireless adapter that I know is around here somewhere. Thank you for the wonderful comment!!
@@FunkyHQYT Steam OS 3.0+ is based on Manjaro/KDE (Plasma)... so its really as close as you can get to the real thing with out the hardware restrictions put in place by Valve to make it more compatible with the customized Steam Deck hardware. Chimera OS directly uses Valves custom configuration which means those are all still in place and they can't use custom hardware effectively. One thing that persists beyond Steam OS.... if you use Nvidia cards, regardless of the OS chosen.... you're going to have a bad time. lol I had to bail on my 3080 for this very reason. My son benefited from that lol I'm looking forward to the next installment! Thanks again!
@@Twylight85 Correction, steamOS is downstream from arch not manjaro, both are arch based but also complete different distributions, they however are forked from the same upstream source and thus by default turn out to use the same DE, kde.
I had Alienware Alpha R2 for many years. I have a tower now and I still have it the Alpha. It's great little PC for the time it was released! I should turn it into a steam machine!
Found your channel on the refurbished deck news video, but just wanted to say that you've earned a sub. Your video quality is really nice, good editing, good quality voiceover, nicely balanced music. You deserve many more subs to come. ^_^
Been running HoloISO for around 18mths on my 4K TV (5600, RX6600XT, 32GB). Been working great for me. I’ve been using 2 Steam Controllers which integrate perfectly. I initially ran Bluetooth but also ran into issues so now I just use the Steam Controllers official USB dongle. If I was to start a fresh I’d probably go ChimeraOS. But honestly, it’s been the best games console experience I’ve ever owned (previously ran Series X, PS4, PS3, X360, etc). Not convinced by using Windows and booting into Big Picture Mode. I fear I may loose some controller integration magic and/or Gamescope window scaling. Gamescope is the glue/magic layer that seems to set HoloISO/ChameraOS/SteamOS apart from other solutions when going for a big screen games console experience. I’m aware you can run Gamescope on any Linux, but there’s a level of integration here. Using it as the Window Manager, that really pulls thing together and eliminated issues so had previously when running the regular Steam Client and Big Picture Mode on other distros.
Great Video. I'm doing the same thing but a tad different setup. I had my steam machine run headless (No monitors connected) adn connected via ethernet. I game on it either through my TV, phone or tablet via Moonlight/Sunshine (best IMHO) or SteamLink. The lag isn't noticeable and I can say for certain that it feels as if I'm playing on it directly. I play fighting games and Elden Ring, so timing your inputs is a must. Just like you, I had a bunch of issues with Chimera and HoloIso and after days of hair pulling trying to resolve them, I ended up running Win11 (de-bloated) and Steam to start in BPM. I don't have any BT controller issues as it's taken care of by either Moonlight or Steamlink, and it works flawlessly. The best thing is that I can install and use PC Gamepass and I'm not limited to the games I can play. The downside is you lose some in-built functionality from SteamOS like gamescope. To go around that issue, I run lossless scaling app from Steam.
I'm really hoping that with the official ISO, most of the issues are ironed out. I know not every game is going to be playable, but I really want Linux grow in popularity for gaming purposes. And that's super cool that you just run it headless and stream the games! I really need to find my Steam Link and mess around with it some more. It got lost in a move somewhere, but I know it's around here somewhere...
@@FunkyHQYT Thanks. I use an Ipega telescopic controller attached to a 7" android tablet. Makes it feel as if it's an actual deck but without you constantly having it plugged in a wall socket every 2-3 hours or so. I can game on it for 5-6 hours. If it runs out I just switch to another tablet and just resume the gaming session on there without having to quit the game... or on the TV or on my phone. Oh and I just use the steamlink app for android not an actual steamlink hardware. Goodluck!
Nice video. In my case, I found an old PC in my building's e-waste bin about two months ago and, after experimenting with Batocera.linux and Chimera, ended up turning it into a little HoloISO box. I'm posting this from it right now! It's much weaker than what you have though (an AMD A6-6400K, but hey it was free...). I had some spare parts I've collected over the years from upgrades and the like, so I put in 16Gb of RAM and an R9 Fury X (which is way too powerful for the CPU it's paired with honestly, and there wasn't enough room to mount the radiator in the small case so I had to get creative with zip ties). I then purchased a dirt cheap Crucial 500Gb SATA SSD (since the computer is a bit too old to have NVMe ports). The Fury X can do 4K@60 over DisplayPort 1.2, but only 4K@30 over its HDMI 1.4 port, and my LG C9 TV needs HDMI. I was able to resolve the problem with a DisplayPort 1.2 -> HDMI 2.0 dongle I found cheap at a local computer store. The keyboard I use is a Logitech K600. I also have a Steam controller, and Xbox Series X controller as well, and all are connected via official dongles instead of bluetooth. I can actually use the Steam controller to navigate the bootloader menus like this, which is a nice feature! Since I'm CPU limited in almost every game, I just use this machine to stick to lighter games (like Othercide which is entirely turn-based) as well as games of its era. It works fine for things like that. I'm planning on upgrading my main desktop soon (to prepare for Starfield since I'll need a 6+ core CPU) so will probably replace the CPU/Montherboard/RAM combo with my overclocked i7-6700K and 32GB of RAM, which will be able to do most things fine and I can just stream anything else I want to play from my new desktop. Regarding HoloISO git commits being old, that doesn't matter much. There is a little complication with having to mess with the Arch repository configuration (since Arch changed the format) and there were instructions on what to on a Reddit post somewhere, but once setup, it'll pull down OS updates directly from Valve in basically the same way that a Steam Deck does, leaving you with a great experience.
It's really cool to see someone using even older hardware, especially something from Piledriver! And I'm still sad that I never really had a Fury card. I had a Fury Nano for a few days years ago, but didn't get much time with it. All of these comments have been so helpful! It's really helped me understand what I'm missing with my OS choice, and ways around some of the issues with some of them currently, until we get the official ISO for SteamOS.
Your Bluetooth issue might not be caused by the OS, but rather by the motherboard. I also have a Gigabyte motherboard, although the B550i version, and if it suddenly shuts down due to a power outage, Bluetooth doesn't work at the hardware-level when I turn it back on To fix this, unplug the PC from the outlet and hold the power button for like a minute to drain the capacitors of their remaining charge. This would reset the Bluetooth module back to a fresh state and hopefully bring back Bluetooth functionality Hopefully this works for you as well
When doing remote play from a linux machine to remote play a windows machine, the two best experiences I have had was using Parsec or using Moonlight or the AMD equivalent for AMD gpus.
Thanks! I know... I really wanted to get the video out without thinking about it too much. I did want to add a lot more, but my organization on this video was lacking.
@@FunkyHQYT Still great content, I look forward to more videos like this with even better editing. Take your time to make the video do justice to the interesting ideas you want to share :)
Its not like the SteamDeck. 1st off when in gaming mode steamos uses gamescope which 99.9% of all Linux distros do not, they use mutter (for Gnome type) and kwin (for kde type). So right off the bat there is a major difference and Valve has spent lots of time and money making that work great.
New Sub! Dryden, MI Great Video, Im currently working on (for no particular reason) Setting up Chimera in ProXmoX.. Not working just yet, but still trying
regular linux distro with steam in steam play mode trumps holo iso or chimera os due to that automatic resolution crap, welp it does not happen on garuda os
This only applies to windows and xbox one/x/s controllers but because I use to have issues with Bluetooth, I bought a usb xbox wireless adapter and haven't had any issue with my controller, it is 30 buck tho and also its only rated for windows, but i have seen people getting it to work on linux if you want to give it a try.
to rename the controllers you should go to old steam picture mode launching steam with params: -oldbigpicture Then you need to go to settings, gamepads... and then you could rename it. after a reboot to new bigpicture or gaming mode... you will see the name of your controller and it will store to the cloud the bluethoot MAC associated with that name so if you connect it to another PC it will remember the name.
@@FunkyHQYT Thank you for taking your time reading the comments. I dont know if they will be implementing renaming gamepads on new bigpicture mode, but it is a feature was before and it seems new bigpicture mode is not 100% feature parity with old bigpicture. My fear is they deprecate and eliminate old big picture before having 100% features on the new big picture. :) have a nice day!
Of course! I hope that they eventually just give us the option to rename the controllers. Having four xbox controllers connected at the same time was very confusing.
@@FunkyHQYT IMHO, dual shock 4 and dual sense 5, are better on linux because Sony writes the kernel driver by themselves And having a RGB led built in... you could adjust the colors of every controller apart from the name of the controller. I have nintendo switch pro controller, DS4, DS5 and xbox elite 2 and IMHO if you have money to waste, for a linux setup, I recommend you to use Sony gamepads. Having gyroscope, you can control the camera and the aim of your weapon just using the gyro. Anyways, I hope you will enjoy your steam machine. I hope people like you, doing what you are doing in your videos, inspire more people to adopt linux operative system. Thanks for your time :)
I have a few PS4 controllers kicking around here somewhere... Sounds like I need to start using those instead! I really appreciate the info! And it's really awesome to hear words of encouragement from people in the comments. I think projects like this are a lot of fun, and getting positive feedback is always so nice! Thank you! ❤️
Yeah having issues with bluetooth too, have too remove the dongle then plug it in again, but this problem occurs in windows too just not as often so its not a linux problem. Most games with launchers have a launch option to skip the launcher. Also try different proton versions for problematic games, some require the old 7 series proton, and some runs better with proton GE.
I think if Valve made a Steam Machine now, it could do much better than what they tried to do years ago, after all, the Steam Machine had a few problems that games didn't run well on Linux and the price point didn't offer anything over what you could get by building your own gaming rig. Now, Proton is in a good place and with that, gaming on Linux is in a good place, but we should remember, the success of the Steam Deck is on two fronts, the ease of use and attractive price point, the question is, can they deliver on the price point whiles having decent specs? After all, a home based Steam Machine would have to be more powerful than what the Deck is by quite a margin. As for ease of us, well, assuming they follow the same model as the Steam Deck, so basically, a single hardware platform that they can focus on like they did with the Deck, it could work out for them. Whereas, if it's a Steam Machine with random hardware parts and just sticking SteamOS on it, that kinda defeats what Valve is aiming to do, which is a hybrid PC/console, that offers much of the openness of the PC and much of the ease of use of consoles, in other words, a PC platform but fixed level hardware on the core specs. What Valve is doing with the Steam Deck is creating a platform, to do that, you need stability and reasonable life cycle, if the hardware is constantly changing, it might as well be a PC with all the problems that come with that, but if Valve say release 2 or 3 Steam Decks per normal console cycle and do the same for a home based PC console, whiles selling at an attractive price point and having reasonable specs, I can see that being appealing for many PC gamers that don't want the hassle of PC gaming and maintaining the system and even more appealing for console gamers that want to jump into PC gaming. Normally, consoles have too long of a life cycle of around 7 or 8 years, which a lot of hardware changes happen over that, but 2 or 3 hardware spec upgrade would likely be enough to keep up with the times, whiles making it easy for Valve to maintain with little worry for gamers and even for developers to target them more. In the end, Valve cracked it with the Steam Deck by having a good price point for the specs and ease of use which is far better than what we normally get with PC gaming, if they can pull that off for a home based PC consoles, they could be onto something and to put it another way, if Valve release their own PC console and support it, that would be far more reassuring than slapping SteamOS on any PC rig with random parts.
@@FunkyHQYT Thanks just incorporated my production company and working slowly towards that goal. Started video production over 26 years ago in high school and treated it as a side Hustle while I was a pro wrestler.
People rag on the Radeon VII and the R9 and R9 Sapphire for being terrible cards, but they still pack a damn good punch in modern titles despite chewing through power and being a heating post.
yeah these cards are power hungry but that's because they were built not for Gaming but for heavy applications that require constant interactions. but these cards are great undervolters. i undervolted a few of these and on my old VEGA 64 i got it down to the power draw pf a RX 5700 same with a VEGA 7 card with no performance lost. but catch is some brands they cheap out on memory modules so those cards dont undervolt well.
enable steam input for xbox controllers and use series x controller with the dongle, i use wired xbox series and it works flawlessly, i have 8bitdo ultimate but it barely works in linux so i went for xbox crontroller
I've been meaning to move away from HoloOS, is it possible to just replace it with ChimeraOS without formatting or should I get it on a separate HD and migrate my games and there? It's because redownloading will cause data caps.
I wonder if you would've had a better or worse experience from Bazzite OS? I've been considering switching my ChimeraOS install for it but in the fence.
@@FunkyHQYT It's a relatively new project based on Fedora I believe. There's not to many videos on it yet but the little I had seen is it working well.
I believe there are some more in-depth guides on building something like this. My main advice points would be to make sure you use an AMD graphics card and be patient. ChimeraOS is good, but it's not perfect. Some of the issues that I've had (like bluetooth not connecting) my be on the hardware level. But a fresh build, something with an AMD GPU is all you really need. That, and a flash drive to flash the OS image onto. If you've ever installed Windows or any other flavor of Linux, it's pretty straight forward!
i am having issues with audio, when the audio settings are all setup, i get crazy crackling in game/ steamUI but in the os itself its fine.. idk what to do
Did you manage to find a fix? I recently had an issue where I hooked it up to a different TV and I couldn't get sound to work. Once I changed the resolution to 1080p down from 4K, I got sound back.
i kinda just gave up in the end xD and just went with windows 11, nuke all the bloat and forced steam big picture mode on startup on machine and its like a console. Thanks for your reply!
Good video, but sadly, as usual, done by a Nvidia fanboi. And since you won't tell everyone the truth, I will. The reason why SteamOS doesn't support Ngreedia is because as usual, Ngreedia hates open source and refuses to release their drivers as such. Which is typical of their anticonsumer practices by limiting your options AMD on the other hand works with the Linux community and provides proper open source drivers. So don't be afraid of Dear Leader Jensen and call out their horrible anticonsumer practices. About the Bluetooth issues, that normal for PCs,the weird solution is to buy the Microsoft wireless adapter for windows 10( that's the name and it works with w11 and Linux).
I never said the Steam Deck wasn't good enough. I'm enthusiastic about Linux and PC hardware and I like trying out new things. If you watched the video, all of these parts are leftover from my old PC build/purchased used for the sake of the project. Putting the parts to use for something fun is better than just letting them sit and do nothing.
By the way, that little issue where you need to set the resolution for each game was fixed in an update yesterday!!! Also, I recommend going into display settings and turning off automatic resolution detection there so Steam displays at native resolution, for me it's 4K now!
That's a cool and fun project. It's so satisfying seeing spare parts sprinkled with some used than can make an awesome gaming PC. Even better with trying to make it your very own Steam machine. Great job and awesome video!
Thanks! I love projects like this and building stuff with older hardware. I really appreciate this comment!! ❤️
Just finding this video. I had some wonkiness with ChimeraOS and HoloISO too. I ended up landing on HoloISO_Tweaked, which is being actively maintained and IMO is a much better experience than mainline. Your point to the Xbox controllers being confusing is one the reasons why I chose PS4 as my controller of choice - when you connect them with steam input running, each one gets assigned its own color on that front LED. I managed to stuff a 5800x3D and a 6950XT in a 22L case and stick it in my media center. It absolutely TEARS UP most anything at 4k, with the rare use of some FSR to keep things buttery smooth. It's an absolute treat.
Some of the QoL things I've done to get the best console-like experience:
- Wake from sleep with a Bluetooth controller
- Custom Fan Curve in OS
- Overclocked GPU
- Undervolted CPU
-Steam download speed fix
I don't think it's worth it for everyone...yet. The momentum of these homebrew projects like ChimeraOS, HoloISO, etc, plus the development investment from Valve...it's undeniable. I don't think I'll ever see "The Year of the Linux Desktop" in my lifetime, but the Linux gaming community and experience is only going to grow and improve.
Holoiso tweaked is stuck at holoiso 4, version 5 is mutch better, so atm the original is newer and mutch better.
Get an Xbox wireless adapter. You can pair your new Xbox controller without plug in keyboard to be able to enter bluetooth GUI. Just press pairing buttons on both dongle & controller. ChimeraOS are supported the dongle thanks to xone project.
I bought one years ago and have misplaced, and haven't wanted to buy another one. Good to know it works though!
Awesome! Thanks for the solution!
Have a question though. With the dongle, did you ever face any issues that Funky mentioned where the controller would disconnect randomly and not show up at all? Also, can multiple controllers with their own dongles be connected and used at the same time?
Hey! I’ve been doing the same thing as you.
Chimera was way too buggy and HoloISO, as you discovered was a no go. I was getting the same bugs as you were with Chimera… trouble with launchers and with resolutions. Also it WOULD NOT accept higher refresh rates. Issues with controllers too.
I went with Manjaro KDE and had steam start with the PC in to big picture mode. The bugs are basically gone and the experience has been sublime.
Make sure to enable compatibility for all games in the Steam settings. It’ll make your life easier.
I’m running a 7800x3d and a 7900 xtx on my 120Hz 4K TV. I’ve stopped using my consoles at this point.
It’s great!
I’m subbing! Hope to see an update video as to how you solved or pivoted to get around these problems!
One more note… if you are using an elite controller, make sure to remap your buttons in steam and create a profile. These Xbox controllers are detected improperly by steam to have incorrect button maps.
Cheers!
The support for high refresh would be awesome since the TV in my office does 120Hz too. I may have to try Manjaro KDE!
Thanks for the sub! I definitely want to make more videos like this one. It's been in the pipeline for months at this point and I really just wanted to push it out since I've noticed a lot of other creators talking about ChimeraOS.
I'm using just a regular 'Series' controller that I got in a custom color, and they Bluetooth experience has been 'fine' but I really need to try to find my wireless adapter that I know is around here somewhere.
Thank you for the wonderful comment!!
@@FunkyHQYT Steam OS 3.0+ is based on Manjaro/KDE (Plasma)... so its really as close as you can get to the real thing with out the hardware restrictions put in place by Valve to make it more compatible with the customized Steam Deck hardware.
Chimera OS directly uses Valves custom configuration which means those are all still in place and they can't use custom hardware effectively.
One thing that persists beyond Steam OS.... if you use Nvidia cards, regardless of the OS chosen.... you're going to have a bad time. lol
I had to bail on my 3080 for this very reason. My son benefited from that lol
I'm looking forward to the next installment! Thanks again!
@@Twylight85 Correction, steamOS is downstream from arch not manjaro, both are arch based but also complete different distributions, they however are forked from the same upstream source and thus by default turn out to use the same DE, kde.
I had Alienware Alpha R2 for many years. I have a tower now and I still have it the Alpha. It's great little PC for the time it was released! I should turn it into a steam machine!
wait what, i looked at the subs and was shocked. with this quality i thought you were a big channel. good stuff
Very kind of you to say! Thank you!
Found your channel on the refurbished deck news video, but just wanted to say that you've earned a sub. Your video quality is really nice, good editing, good quality voiceover, nicely balanced music. You deserve many more subs to come. ^_^
Thank you so much!! I really appreciate you saying this! ❤️
Been running HoloISO for around 18mths on my 4K TV (5600, RX6600XT, 32GB). Been working great for me. I’ve been using 2 Steam Controllers which integrate perfectly. I initially ran Bluetooth but also ran into issues so now I just use the Steam Controllers official USB dongle.
If I was to start a fresh I’d probably go ChimeraOS. But honestly, it’s been the best games console experience I’ve ever owned (previously ran Series X, PS4, PS3, X360, etc).
Not convinced by using Windows and booting into Big Picture Mode. I fear I may loose some controller integration magic and/or Gamescope window scaling.
Gamescope is the glue/magic layer that seems to set HoloISO/ChameraOS/SteamOS apart from other solutions when going for a big screen games console experience.
I’m aware you can run Gamescope on any Linux, but there’s a level of integration here. Using it as the Window Manager, that really pulls thing together and eliminated issues so had previously when running the regular Steam Client and Big Picture Mode on other distros.
Great Video. I'm doing the same thing but a tad different setup. I had my steam machine run headless (No monitors connected) adn connected via ethernet. I game on it either through my TV, phone or tablet via Moonlight/Sunshine (best IMHO) or SteamLink. The lag isn't noticeable and I can say for certain that it feels as if I'm playing on it directly. I play fighting games and Elden Ring, so timing your inputs is a must.
Just like you, I had a bunch of issues with Chimera and HoloIso and after days of hair pulling trying to resolve them, I ended up running Win11 (de-bloated) and Steam to start in BPM. I don't have any BT controller issues as it's taken care of by either Moonlight or Steamlink, and it works flawlessly. The best thing is that I can install and use PC Gamepass and I'm not limited to the games I can play. The downside is you lose some in-built functionality from SteamOS like gamescope. To go around that issue, I run lossless scaling app from Steam.
I'm really hoping that with the official ISO, most of the issues are ironed out. I know not every game is going to be playable, but I really want Linux grow in popularity for gaming purposes.
And that's super cool that you just run it headless and stream the games! I really need to find my Steam Link and mess around with it some more. It got lost in a move somewhere, but I know it's around here somewhere...
@@FunkyHQYT Thanks. I use an Ipega telescopic controller attached to a 7" android tablet. Makes it feel as if it's an actual deck but without you constantly having it plugged in a wall socket every 2-3 hours or so. I can game on it for 5-6 hours. If it runs out I just switch to another tablet and just resume the gaming session on there without having to quit the game... or on the TV or on my phone. Oh and I just use the steamlink app for android not an actual steamlink hardware. Goodluck!
Nice video. In my case, I found an old PC in my building's e-waste bin about two months ago and, after experimenting with Batocera.linux and Chimera, ended up turning it into a little HoloISO box. I'm posting this from it right now! It's much weaker than what you have though (an AMD A6-6400K, but hey it was free...). I had some spare parts I've collected over the years from upgrades and the like, so I put in 16Gb of RAM and an R9 Fury X (which is way too powerful for the CPU it's paired with honestly, and there wasn't enough room to mount the radiator in the small case so I had to get creative with zip ties). I then purchased a dirt cheap Crucial 500Gb SATA SSD (since the computer is a bit too old to have NVMe ports).
The Fury X can do 4K@60 over DisplayPort 1.2, but only 4K@30 over its HDMI 1.4 port, and my LG C9 TV needs HDMI. I was able to resolve the problem with a DisplayPort 1.2 -> HDMI 2.0 dongle I found cheap at a local computer store.
The keyboard I use is a Logitech K600. I also have a Steam controller, and Xbox Series X controller as well, and all are connected via official dongles instead of bluetooth. I can actually use the Steam controller to navigate the bootloader menus like this, which is a nice feature!
Since I'm CPU limited in almost every game, I just use this machine to stick to lighter games (like Othercide which is entirely turn-based) as well as games of its era. It works fine for things like that. I'm planning on upgrading my main desktop soon (to prepare for Starfield since I'll need a 6+ core CPU) so will probably replace the CPU/Montherboard/RAM combo with my overclocked i7-6700K and 32GB of RAM, which will be able to do most things fine and I can just stream anything else I want to play from my new desktop.
Regarding HoloISO git commits being old, that doesn't matter much. There is a little complication with having to mess with the Arch repository configuration (since Arch changed the format) and there were instructions on what to on a Reddit post somewhere, but once setup, it'll pull down OS updates directly from Valve in basically the same way that a Steam Deck does, leaving you with a great experience.
It's really cool to see someone using even older hardware, especially something from Piledriver! And I'm still sad that I never really had a Fury card. I had a Fury Nano for a few days years ago, but didn't get much time with it.
All of these comments have been so helpful! It's really helped me understand what I'm missing with my OS choice, and ways around some of the issues with some of them currently, until we get the official ISO for SteamOS.
@@FunkyHQYT The Fury Nano was such a nice card too. I had one in my work desktop back in the day to drive a 4k display. So tiny!
Your Bluetooth issue might not be caused by the OS, but rather by the motherboard. I also have a Gigabyte motherboard, although the B550i version, and if it suddenly shuts down due to a power outage, Bluetooth doesn't work at the hardware-level when I turn it back on
To fix this, unplug the PC from the outlet and hold the power button for like a minute to drain the capacitors of their remaining charge. This would reset the Bluetooth module back to a fresh state and hopefully bring back Bluetooth functionality
Hopefully this works for you as well
I'll give this a try!
This channel deserve more subs great quality content
Thank you!
very entertaining video! really suprised you don't have more than 500,000 subscribers yet keep it up!!
Thank you! I'm working on it! >:)
When doing remote play from a linux machine to remote play a windows machine, the two best experiences I have had was using Parsec or using Moonlight or the AMD equivalent for AMD gpus.
Great video! But please, more B-roll and less staring straight to my soul haha! Great work man! 👌
Thanks! I know... I really wanted to get the video out without thinking about it too much. I did want to add a lot more, but my organization on this video was lacking.
@@FunkyHQYT Still great content, I look forward to more videos like this with even better editing. Take your time to make the video do justice to the interesting ideas you want to share :)
@@FunkyHQYT Nah, stare into my soul more xD
@@xGGamingx I agree. More soul staring
mango hud always works and it is what the steam compositor uses
Its not like the SteamDeck. 1st off when in gaming mode steamos uses gamescope which 99.9% of all Linux distros do not, they use mutter (for Gnome type) and kwin (for kde type). So right off the bat there is a major difference and Valve has spent lots of time and money making that work great.
But, can it run crysis?
Damn, I have a GTX1070 in storage somewhere, i should dig it out and build a SteamPC myself, great idea
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Great Video, Im currently working on (for no particular reason) Setting up Chimera in ProXmoX..
Not working just yet, but still trying
Great video, very informative!
Glad you enjoyed it!
holy crap that's a lot of thermal paste
I did it because I wanted someone to say something 😏 you win!
regular linux distro with steam in steam play mode trumps holo iso or chimera os due to that automatic resolution crap, welp it does not happen on garuda os
This only applies to windows and xbox one/x/s controllers but because I use to have issues with Bluetooth, I bought a usb xbox wireless adapter and haven't had any issue with my controller, it is 30 buck tho and also its only rated for windows, but i have seen people getting it to work on linux if you want to give it a try.
I bought one of those a while back, but I'm not sure where it went to. I'm sure it's in a box somewhere. I'd hate to have to buy another one!
to rename the controllers you should go to old steam picture mode launching steam with params:
-oldbigpicture
Then you need to go to settings, gamepads... and then you could rename it.
after a reboot to new bigpicture or gaming mode... you will see the name of your controller and it will store to the cloud the bluethoot MAC associated with that name so if you connect it to another PC it will remember the name.
This is very helpful! Thank you!
@@FunkyHQYT
Thank you for taking your time reading the comments.
I dont know if they will be implementing renaming gamepads on new bigpicture mode, but it is a feature was before and it seems new bigpicture mode is not 100% feature parity with old bigpicture.
My fear is they deprecate and eliminate old big picture before having 100% features on the new big picture.
:) have a nice day!
Of course! I hope that they eventually just give us the option to rename the controllers. Having four xbox controllers connected at the same time was very confusing.
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IMHO, dual shock 4 and dual sense 5, are better on linux because Sony writes the kernel driver by themselves
And having a RGB led built in... you could adjust the colors of every controller apart from the name of the controller.
I have nintendo switch pro controller, DS4, DS5 and xbox elite 2 and IMHO if you have money to waste, for a linux setup, I recommend you to use Sony gamepads.
Having gyroscope, you can control the camera and the aim of your weapon just using the gyro.
Anyways, I hope you will enjoy your steam machine. I hope people like you, doing what you are doing in your videos, inspire more people to adopt linux operative system.
Thanks for your time :)
I have a few PS4 controllers kicking around here somewhere... Sounds like I need to start using those instead! I really appreciate the info!
And it's really awesome to hear words of encouragement from people in the comments. I think projects like this are a lot of fun, and getting positive feedback is always so nice! Thank you! ❤️
Yeah having issues with bluetooth too, have too remove the dongle then plug it in again, but this problem occurs in windows too just not as often so its not a linux problem. Most games with launchers have a launch option to skip the launcher. Also try different proton versions for problematic games, some require the old 7 series proton, and some runs better with proton GE.
great video! will do something similar with a secondary pc of mine, just not sure which amd gpu to go for. cheers!
Nice! It's nice to take something that maybe isn't being used and repurpose it. Also, nice profile pic! I love ravens and crows! 🪶
I think NVIDIA GPU works on winesapOS, which is another fork of SteamOS
I think if Valve made a Steam Machine now, it could do much better than what they tried to do years ago, after all, the Steam Machine had a few problems that games didn't run well on Linux and the price point didn't offer anything over what you could get by building your own gaming rig.
Now, Proton is in a good place and with that, gaming on Linux is in a good place, but we should remember, the success of the Steam Deck is on two fronts, the ease of use and attractive price point, the question is, can they deliver on the price point whiles having decent specs? After all, a home based Steam Machine would have to be more powerful than what the Deck is by quite a margin.
As for ease of us, well, assuming they follow the same model as the Steam Deck, so basically, a single hardware platform that they can focus on like they did with the Deck, it could work out for them.
Whereas, if it's a Steam Machine with random hardware parts and just sticking SteamOS on it, that kinda defeats what Valve is aiming to do, which is a hybrid PC/console, that offers much of the openness of the PC and much of the ease of use of consoles, in other words, a PC platform but fixed level hardware on the core specs.
What Valve is doing with the Steam Deck is creating a platform, to do that, you need stability and reasonable life cycle, if the hardware is constantly changing, it might as well be a PC with all the problems that come with that, but if Valve say release 2 or 3 Steam Decks per normal console cycle and do the same for a home based PC console, whiles selling at an attractive price point and having reasonable specs, I can see that being appealing for many PC gamers that don't want the hassle of PC gaming and maintaining the system and even more appealing for console gamers that want to jump into PC gaming.
Normally, consoles have too long of a life cycle of around 7 or 8 years, which a lot of hardware changes happen over that, but 2 or 3 hardware spec upgrade would likely be enough to keep up with the times, whiles making it easy for Valve to maintain with little worry for gamers and even for developers to target them more.
In the end, Valve cracked it with the Steam Deck by having a good price point for the specs and ease of use which is far better than what we normally get with PC gaming, if they can pull that off for a home based PC consoles, they could be onto something and to put it another way, if Valve release their own PC console and support it, that would be far more reassuring than slapping SteamOS on any PC rig with random parts.
I never been able to install Chimera OS, I spent days tying using 3 old PC and nothing worked.
Sounds like chimera os had a kernel update that borked your bluetooth.
It may be a hardware issue as well. Another commenter said something about draining the power to the system fixed it for them.
@@FunkyHQYT hm maybe they had some bios issues and draining the power reset that. Just a guess. But yeah it could be hardware related too.
You should be ashamed by that thermal paste application
Get triggered
I was impressed he had the guts to apply thermal paste on camera. Someone is always going to complain.
I absolutely did it for the meme.
@@FunkyHQYTYou should’ve scooped it on with an ice cream scoop and then spread it around with your tongue! 😂
brb going to find my ice cream scoop
dude whats that hook beat playing lol love it
Thanks!
You bet! ❤️
Try putting the old cpu back in it may require bios flash that supports the new cpu
Always down to help a fellow youtuber to get to that Partner status something I will be working on shortly.
Thanks and good luck!
@@FunkyHQYT Thanks just incorporated my production company and working slowly towards that goal. Started video production over 26 years ago in high school and treated it as a side Hustle while I was a pro wrestler.
People rag on the Radeon VII and the R9 and R9 Sapphire for being terrible cards, but they still pack a damn good punch in modern titles despite chewing through power and being a heating post.
I still think they're worth looking at these days!
@@FunkyHQYT I agree, theyre fantastic cards!
yeah these cards are power hungry but that's because they were built not for Gaming but for heavy applications that require constant interactions. but these cards are great undervolters. i undervolted a few of these and on my old VEGA 64 i got it down to the power draw pf a RX 5700 same with a VEGA 7 card with no performance lost. but catch is some brands they cheap out on memory modules so those cards dont undervolt well.
@@matthewjuarbe5826 i have mine undervolted for gaming on Linux and it's absolutely. Dream.
enable steam input for xbox controllers and use series x controller with the dongle, i use wired xbox series and it works flawlessly, i have 8bitdo ultimate but it barely works in linux so i went for xbox crontroller
If you are on Chimera can you still say "I run Arch BTW" ?
Yes, Chimera is Arch-based.
@@FunkyHQYT but its a fork, so does it really fit the meme?
You bricked an Alienware Alpha!?
I've been meaning to move away from HoloOS, is it possible to just replace it with ChimeraOS without formatting or should I get it on a separate HD and migrate my games and there? It's because redownloading will cause data caps.
I've never done that, but moving your games to a different drive sounds doable.
ChimerOS is for playing games only, if you want a more complete OS i can recomend PikaOS or Nobara.
man i use my alien ware alpha but my died finally i might replace my mother board in general and put in a new cpu or ram .
That was sooo much thermal paste
You can never have enough thermal paste
When I get my AMD card I'm gonna dual boot windows 10 and steamos
Nice! Which card are you getting?
I wonder if you would've had a better or worse experience from Bazzite OS? I've been considering switching my ChimeraOS install for it but in the fence.
I haven't heard of that one!
@@FunkyHQYT It's a relatively new project based on Fedora I believe. There's not to many videos on it yet but the little I had seen is it working well.
i have never in my life seen a cmos change brick a motherboard, but ok
Neither had I
I want to build à steam OS machine on Linux system dedicated to. Is existing tutorial?
I believe there are some more in-depth guides on building something like this. My main advice points would be to make sure you use an AMD graphics card and be patient. ChimeraOS is good, but it's not perfect. Some of the issues that I've had (like bluetooth not connecting) my be on the hardware level. But a fresh build, something with an AMD GPU is all you really need. That, and a flash drive to flash the OS image onto. If you've ever installed Windows or any other flavor of Linux, it's pretty straight forward!
i am having issues with audio, when the audio settings are all setup, i get crazy crackling in game/ steamUI but in the os itself its fine.. idk what to do
:(
Did you manage to find a fix? I recently had an issue where I hooked it up to a different TV and I couldn't get sound to work. Once I changed the resolution to 1080p down from 4K, I got sound back.
i kinda just gave up in the end xD and just went with windows 11, nuke all the bloat and forced steam big picture mode on startup on machine and its like a console. Thanks for your reply!
Wth is a Radeon 7 ???
It's a cool graphics card 😂
@@FunkyHQYT very cool indeed🤣
Just subbed #772 i beilve🎉
Thank you!
@@FunkyHQYT you are welcome I'm looking forward to watching more videos !
Good video, but sadly, as usual, done by a Nvidia fanboi.
And since you won't tell everyone the truth, I will.
The reason why SteamOS doesn't support Ngreedia is because as usual, Ngreedia hates open source and refuses to release their drivers as such.
Which is typical of their anticonsumer practices by limiting your options
AMD on the other hand works with the Linux community and provides proper open source drivers.
So don't be afraid of Dear Leader Jensen and call out their horrible anticonsumer practices.
About the Bluetooth issues, that normal for PCs,the weird solution is to buy the Microsoft wireless adapter for windows 10( that's the name and it works with w11 and Linux).
Thanks for the engagement, I guess?
@@FunkyHQYT if that is all that you can say, then you are welcome.
steam os is meh.
you're meh.
dude said he doesnt want to play on a pc so he buys a pc...after finding out that the steamdeck isnt a good enough pc
logic
literally what is this lol
I never said the Steam Deck wasn't good enough. I'm enthusiastic about Linux and PC hardware and I like trying out new things. If you watched the video, all of these parts are leftover from my old PC build/purchased used for the sake of the project. Putting the parts to use for something fun is better than just letting them sit and do nothing.
The only difference between consoles and PCs these days is the OS