They should pay someone to finalize the jailbreak of the PS5, because SteamOS should run great on it if you have a hacked console.
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2026
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We shouldn’t need a jailbreak.
If Apple has to allow 3rd party stores, why not Sony?
Apple only allows 3rd party stores in the EU*
Yeah and even then, the compliance is malicious
And Google is about to copy it worldwide
It's gone beyond the EU. Last week Apple announced third party app stores will be coming to Brazil and
Apple has already allowed alternative app stores and/or third-party payment systems on iOS in the EU, Japan, and South Korea, and it will likely be forced to do so in the UK and Australia too, due to similar regulations in those countries.
I mean their tablets/phones are still locked to ios.
This would make me use it again, it's just gathering dust since I have a gaming laptop (bought on sale years ago, much better than the ps5), but mostly just use blender and watch tv, would be sick if it made it so I can play simracing games on it with my moza wheel because I never want to close out of my projects on my laptop.
It'd be nice to use it as a homeserver too, just leave it connected to the router and throw some selfhosted apps on there or whatever. Be so much more useful as another linux pc now that I don't really game and if I do it's never an exclusive. Just don't care for linear single player story games.
I still get use of mine through my steam deck using Chiaki4Deck remote play, I had a big PS digital library built up and it’s the easiest way for me to access it with minimal setup. I’m not buying Skyrim again, I refuse
If your firmware is old enough you can jailbreak it and run steamos already
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just use bazzite and live in the future
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Wasn't that always allowed?
Allowed but janky, this is probably a more polished installer.
I see, and yes, you needed some technical savvyness (is that a word?) to do this on your own before
"Savvy" is both the noun for the trait and the adjective for someone who possesses it.
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It wasn't officially supported for a long time even if they never stopped you. No real installer, etc. But now they started adding a lot more driver support even for hardware they aren't going to use, which you only do if you want to let people use 3rd party hardware
Awesome, thanks for the info
They only had the old SteamOS available for installing to anything but a Steam Deck. But they had said the current SteamOS was going to be available for all PCs a long while back, anyway.
Allowed and available, but not endorsed.
Gotta put in on my Steam Deck
Dude that'd be so sick!
Have someone managed to jailbreak it?
AMD only for now.
AMD only forever unless you want to reinstall nvidia drivers every month, because the cunts will never support linux properly
And at least AMD doesn't catch on fire and screw over their own power delivery interfaces.
The open source Nvidia drivers are coming along nicely I hear.
I'll believe it when I see it
I have an HTPC I put together running EndeavourOS with an RTX 2060 Super. Haven't had a single issue with it in the ~6 months I've had it up and running. Handles every game I've thrown at it really well
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Tbh not even the fucking Windows drivers work properly either. In all my years of gaming every single time I’ve had an issue with my Nvidia GPU it’s the fucking drivers not working properly. Ranging from wild performance benches in games that only work on one specific driver, but fucks up the rest of my library, to crashes that cause me to force restart.
Once I switched over to AMD with my 580 back in the day, drivers have been absolutely seamless. Fuck that DLSS shit and fuck Nvidia. I just want my $500 GPU to work properly.
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Love it, giving us an easy arch-based gaming distro basically. Now they just gotta give us half-life 3 as well.
This appears to be the page to pay attention to for actually doing this. https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/65B4-2AA3-5F37-4227
It appears support is not yet there, but is intended to be.
Support started with 3.8 release. It might say steam deck in the file name, but as long as the version is 3.8.xx then it should be good.
Direct Link to download: https://steamdeck-images.steamos.cloud/steamdeck/20260618.10/steamdeck-oobe-repair-20260618.10-3.8.10.img.zip
We could always do this, by the way. SteamOS has been available since the release of the Steam Deck. The main drawback is that core updates will wipe a bunch of changes you've made to your OS. I got tired of reinstalling AUR and a bunch of other things every month, so I changed distros.
Once that issue goes away, I'll likely switch back.
I dont think thats really an issue and more so a design choice to keep steam os immutable. I doubt that'll change since it does make it much harder to break the system.
Yep. I think its actually pretty ideal for a pure gaming machine that lives under the TV. If I were going to build a machine for that I would go with SteamOS.
On immutable fedora, I can layer packages. Is this not possible on SteamOS?
My understanding is SteamOS was lacking hardware support for most devices, and that they've been slowly fixing this. It's been mostly functional for awhile now, but used to be completely broken, and it's only now that Valve is saying it's actually ready for most AMD devices.
It's part of why people had needed to use things like Bazzite/ChimeraOS on other gaming handhelds, because bare SteamOS wouldn't work. There were things like hardcoded support for just the Van Gogh chipset, hardcoded TDP management that would cause system crashes on different hardware, no support for network devices, etc.
Need to make all changes through ansible, then you just run one job post update :)
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I prepped for this a long while. Right down to having an AMD CPU and AMD rdna 2 GPU.
I've never seen a computer that's a Radiator. Thank you everyone have a great evening
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