And omfg!!! I'm amazed and blown away. I have this old PC that I've had since 2016. Replaced the old 1080Ti that died with an RX6600. Connected it to my TV in the basement and installed Bazzite OS HTPC on it.

A friend of mine has over 2500 games on his steam and gave me access through this family sharing feature. Man, I'm amazed. I didn't know that steam mode has built in upscaling where all the games I play are now running ~50 - 60 FPS on medium to high settings on this 4k TV. It's like having an actual console but with more games and better graphics. For controller, I got this Gamesir cyclone 2 and it's freaking fantastic. Just trying to figure out how to wake the "console" using the controller. I don't think I'll ever touch my PS4 pro ever again.

I did have one issue where Bazzite wouldn't wake up after suspend, but fixed that by disabling runtime power management for AMDGPU by Adding options amdgpu runpm=0 to /etc/modprobe.d/amdgpu.conf and disabling the wake up animation for steam mode.

That's it. Just came here to share with you all this amazing discovery. lol

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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Yeah, people complain about some Windows games not working, but it easily blows any console out of the water.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    After faffing around with Steam Link to no avail again last night, I'm seriously considering something like that.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Have you tried Sunshine+Moonlight?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    See the other comment about what Sunshine and Moonlight are, but I wanted to toss in I use that, as well as a stand alone instance of Steam on my living room PC. My living room PC is noticeably weaker than my main PC, so for some games I stream them via Sunshine/Moonlight, but for a lot of indie titles I just run them right in the living room PC.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    You're giving me Ideas lol

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Brother. Lmao. I was like a child in a playground. Go for it. The process alone was so much fun.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Did you follow a guide? If so, can you link it?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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 :)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    How did you set up the steam library? Did you have to set up a virtual network or something?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago

    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

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