How did you set up the steam library? Did you have to set up a virtual network or something?
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There is nothing special about setting up the library. It's just your normal steam. You install the distro and then log into your steam account. That's it. No virtual network or anything. If you meant something else, please elaborate so I can answer to the best of my abilities
Sorry I somehow failed to include the word "sharing". Last time I tried setting up a steam family it said we had to live at the same address.
No worries. The sharing of the library is done on the library owner's side. My friend added me as a family member to his account and I had to turn on family sharing on my end, and all of his games just showed up
After faffing around with Steam Link to no avail again last night, I'm seriously considering something like that.
I have put this off for a long time because of my son. He has this one friend who only plays Roblox and he's a good friend of his, so we kept windows for him on this machine. But he has had so many issues with it where so many other games either crashed his whole PC or just refused to work (because it's an older machine? I don't know, it's windows). Eventually he came to me fed up with it and said "put Linux on this thing right now" 😂. Me being a sucker for Linux, I of course obliged. He's been having a blast, all of his games work and I've also found an app called "Sober" for his Roblox. Win win.
The bluetooth controller in the machine needs to support wake on pcie/usb. The one in the steamdeck does, which is how it achieves the ability to be woken from a controller.
The one in the steamdeck does, which is how it achieves the ability to be woken from a controller.
Small correction, only the OLED model has that, it's essentially the only gripe I have with my Deck.
You can also wake up the original Stram Deck with USB if you don't mind.
I've tried with it for a while, but couldn't get it to work. I'll keep messing with it.
You're giving me Ideas lol
Brother. Lmao. I was like a child in a playground. Go for it. The process alone was so much fun.
Did you follow a guide? If so, can you link it?
A guide on the installation? Just a normal distro install if you've ever installed one. I chose the HTPC iso to make sure I'm getting the full desktop power alongside the gaming mode and installed. I have several drives and it was so cool to realize that Bazzite set them to mount automatically at boot (one of them is even NTFS), all I did is tick them in the installer alongside the one I installed the system on and the distro like understood that I needed them mounted at boot automatically.
Here their guide in case you need it :)
Yeah, people complain about some Windows games not working, but it easily blows any console out of the water.
It had windows on it and some games kept crashing the whole PC. This is the main reason why we switched it to bazzite. My son was fed up with windows and asked me to install Linux on it. Now he has no issues with all the games he plays. I love seeing my boy enjoying his time.