• Mindlight@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    A bit off topic:

    ChimeraOS, which essentially is SteamOS for PC, can be used to setup a couch gaming station. A PC a console if you may.

    My Xbox One Wireless controllers and the Microsoft usb-dongle worked out of the box with my old PC (i5 w Intel graphics). A majority, if not all, of my Steam games with controller support works flawlessly.

    ChimeraOS also has built in support for different emulators and also Epic game store and some more

    https://chimeraos.org/

    • DoakSteezy@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 year ago

      Wait - the Microsoft wireless dongle? That looks like a small USB drive? If that works out of the box I’m definitely setting up a second drive with ChimeraOS on it. I got it working in PopOS but it was a pain in the ass IIRC. That was awhile ago though.

      • Mindlight@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        yes! it just works!

        the only problem I had was getting any doing via HDMI. But the solution was found by googling and it was fixed by following this:

        Open tty using ctrl-alt-f3

        Login w/ un/pw of ‘gamer’

        sudo frzr-unlock

        This allows writing to the partition

        sudo pacman -Sy

        sudo pacman -S pavucontrol

        Installs pavucontrol. Once that’s done, add it as a non-steam shortcut through the UI, and you’ll be off to the races.

  • pixxel
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    Love my steamdeck, it’s a bit of a shame that it hasn’t seen more use lately though with Zelda not being available on pc natively.