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If Valve hadn’t taken the initiative with Linux gaming and SteamOS, where would we be? We’ve come a long way since 2013.

That percentage hops to 33%, a third of the entire Steam catalog. If we go to ProtonDB - the unofficial database of reports of games running via Proton - over 10,000 additional Windows/Mac games have been verified to work.

It may not sound like a lot, but that percentage increases thanks to the advents of Proton. Of the nearly 80,000 titles out there on Steam right now, over 15,000 of them are natively available for Linux - that’s about 20%.

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But there’s a huge plus to all this that I haven’t covered.Īs poor as the sales of the Steam machines were (some manufacturers of whom later ditched SteamOS in favor of Windows), and as irritable as getting SteamOS to work properly was, look at where we are now. I know I’ve already offended a few die-hards out there. Ekianjo had penned his frustrations with SteamOS a few years back, and much of his thoughts I concur with - getting partitions to work along nicely, getting Wi-Fi drivers to work, outdated video drivers, a bunch of other junk I don’t need to fill you up on. Then there was the nightmare that was installing SteamOS, for creating your own Steam machine. Not only was the selection of games limited - due to the need for Steam games to be natively built for Linux in order to work with SteamOS - but console gamers reasoned, “Why should I have to pay nearly twice the money on this, when I can get a traditional console for a lot less?” Needless to say, I think we’re all aware that Valve’s partnership with various distributors like Dell and iBuyPower to get SteamOS on their machines - dubbed the Steam machines - had been met with a lot of skepticism and therefore launched poorly. So Valve decided to take matters into their own hands by using the power of Linux, and in so doing, created SteamOS - a Debian-based distribution that launches Steam Big Picture Mode on startup, thereby preventing the need for a mouse and keyboard.

#How to install nvidia drivers steamos desktop windows 8#

Gabe Newell complained of Windows 8 and its’ awful representation of being a desktop-tablet hybrid, along with their walled garden that is the Windows Store. It was an exciting time for Linux gaming. Valve had launched Steam for Linux in 2012, and the following year, introduced their idea of console gaming with SteamOS. So if it doesn't work for you, exit the session either by selecting "Shutdown" or "Restart" from the Steam Big Picture power menu or restart LightDM (press Ctrl + Alt + F1, login and type: "sudo service lightdm restart", then press Ctrl + Alt + F7 to return to the login screen).Let’s walk down memory lane to 2013. In my test, selecting "Return to desktop" didn't work with Ubuntu 14.04 and 13.10 but it worked on 12.10 (and it also didn't work with SteamOS running in VirtualBox when logging in to the SteamOS session).

to get a "Return to desktop" power menu option in the SteamOS session, in the Steam Big Picture interface settings select Interface > Enable access to the Linux desktop.

That means that even if a monitor is connected but disabled, the SteamOS session won't work and you'll get a black screen! To avoid this, make sure you boot with only one monitor connected or restart LightDM / logout after disconnecting a monitor.

the SteamOS session doesn't work if multiple monitors are plugged in.

this session loads Steam in Big Picture mode and from my experience and from what I've read, Big Picture is pretty buggy on Linux so before using this, I suggest trying the Big Picture Mode from the Steam Linux client and see if it works on your hardware/drivers, if games run properly and so on.

Here are some observations from my testing (please read!):