Most of the people who like to play games prefer Windows over Linux for only one reason ie., Linux is incapable of running those high-end games. Apparently, That’s not true and to explain that in this article I’ll be showing How to Dual Boot SteamOS on Windows PC or Laptop
#1 SteamOS is developed on top of Linux so it has all the Linux functionalities and support.
The OS will boot up and have you choose between two options: SteamOS GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.10-3-amd64 and SteamOS GNU Linux, with Linux 3.10-3-amd64 (recovery mode). Jul 30, 2021 SteamOS is a public release of our Linux-based operating system. The base system draws from Debian 8, code named Debian Jessie. Spark city world rewritten. Our work builds on top of the solid Debian core and optimizes it for.
I followed some guides, both debian wiki and something else on Steam/nvidia forums Basically nvidia-detect says that I should use jessie-backports to update graphic drivers, I tried to set up sources of jessie (archived by debian) but the installation needs dependencies and doesn't find necessary packets in the repo. SteamOS is a public release of our Linux-based operating system. The base system draws from Debian 8, code named Debian Jessie. Our work builds on top of the solid Debian core and optimizes it for. I followed some guides, both debian wiki and something else on Steam/nvidia forums Basically nvidia-detect says that I should use jessie-backports to update graphic drivers, I tried to set up sources of jessie (archived by debian) but the installation needs dependencies and doesn't find necessary packets in the repo.
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#2 We all know that Steam Library of Games is large and has many popular titles which constitute of First Person and many AAA titles.
Valve was very successful with Steam Library and decided to make a fully dedicated Steam Machine’s that are Game Ready devices out of the box.
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Even popular brands liked the idea and started a partnership in building them but Valve decided to let users install SteamOS on their very own Machine.
They even posted a dedicated DIY post for building a Steam Machine. But, In this article, I’ll be explaining a Dual Boot Tutorial which can help you Install SteamOS alongside your favorite Windows.
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Don’t worry about following the tutorial. I’ve included a Video Tutorial for Easier Installation.
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- First of all, we need to download the SteamOS public Linux Distribution. To do so head over to http://repo.steampowered.com/download/
- From the Steam, repository download the OS in ISO format for easy Installation. You can also download the default .zip format from here
- But burning .zip is somewhat difficult than burning an ISO. So, burn the ISO onto a USB drive using Rufus.
- Meanwhile, Press Win+X and open disk management. Then Shrink your C Drive for allocating space for SteamOS
- Shrink minimum of 50 gigs for SteamOS because unlike other Linux distro’s SteamOS occupies larger space.
- Now boot your PC or Laptop using the Flash Drive and then select UEFI as your boot option. This step is crucial because SteamOS only supports UEFI booting
- Also, Don’t forget to choose Expert Install or else we can’t dual boot Steam OS. Follow the basic procedure for installation like Location and language stuff.
- During this step click on undo changes to partitions to get to the allocated free space.
- Then highlight the free space and click continue to select the partitioned Free Space area for use in order to load SteamOS in it.
- Select ” Automatically Partition The Free Space ” from the options list and click continue to proceed.
- Then select “Finish Partitioning and write changes to the disk” to write SteamOS to the allocated Partition.
- Here you need to choose your Harddisk to install Grub on top of Windows Bootloader.
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Dual Boot SteamOS alongside Windows Video Tutorial
Here’s the video tutorial of the same for more precise instructions.
Source: YouTube
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Once the Installation is completed, Reboot the PC into SteamOS and connect to the internet to complete the setup. The First boot will take longer than normal
At this step, It’ll search and install the required hardware drivers present of the current dual booted machine. Once you’re on the SteamOS Gnome interface
Connect it to the Internet via WiFi or Ethernet, Then Steam Installer will download the SteamOS interface libraries and it’ll install the interface once downloaded.
From the next restart, you’ll enjoy Dual Booted SteamOS on your Windows Machine. Dual Booting SteamOS has lot’s of advantages over traditional out of the box Steam Machine. One of them is Customization.
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Since SteamOS was first released in December 2013, Valve has been quick to squash bugs and add much-needed functionality. It still isn’t clear when Valve will launch the final version of SteamOS (hopefully later this year), but it took a big step forward recently by releasing an ISO version that includes an easy-to-use Windows installer and dual-boot functionality. SteamOS itself is still pretty much just a customized Debian distro with Steam pre-installed.
A couple of weeks ago, back when Valve unveiled its Steam Machine hardware partners at CES 2014, SteamOS also gained support for AMD and Intel GPUs. Previously, only Nvidia graphics cards had been supported. The AMD Catalyst driver implementation is fairly preliminary at this point, with slow-than-Windows performance and some visual glitching, but it should improve over time (as long as SteamOS actually goes on to be a critical success).
The SteamOS installer looks a lot like the Debian installer… because it is
The new ISO version of SteamOS includes a Windows installer (the standard Debian installer for Windows), official support for dual-booting, support for legacy BIOS (non-EFI) systems — and if you burn the ISO to disc, it obviously supports installation from DVD. (You can happily mount the ISO in Windows and install from there, too.) Valve says that dual-boot support has received “very little testing,” so you shouldn’t yet try it out on your main computer — unless you’re prepared to lose everything. (Read: What is EFI, the long-overdue replacement for BIOS?)
Curiously, most of the changes in this most recent build of SteamOS were borrowed from Ye Olde SteamOSe — a modified version of the SteamOS installer that was released very soon after Valve first published its code, and has been developed side-by-side since. There are still lots of features in YOS that the official SteamOS lacks, though, such as real support (including 3D acceleration) for VMware and VirtualBox. (And indeed, YOS is a much simpler way of virtualizing SteamOS than our original guide, which was really rather convoluted.)
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Moving forward, there isn’t a whole lot of transparency on Valve’s plans for SteamOS. It looks like the company is just going to slowly trudge forward until everything is polished, with sporadic releases when something major occurs. SteamOS’s major features, such as in-home streaming of PC games to your living room Steam Machine, or better-than-Windows performance, are still nowhere to be seen. The incompleteness of SteamOS, combined with the recent change to the Steam Machine controller, suggest that we won’t see the final build of SteamOS (or the Steam Machines) until mid-2014 at the earliest.