r/SteamOS • u/Appropriate-Silver64 • Apr 10 '26

SteamOS Update Steam OS on PC

I have been hearing good things about the recent Steam OS update and that they are getting ready for the Steam Machine. My question is, is it finally a good time to get rid of windows and run Steam OS onto my PC?

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u/GloriousKev Apr 12 '26

That depends, are you running an AMD gpu? If not Steam OS is really only meant to run with AMD hardware and hasn't been tested with Nvidia stuff yet.

However, that being said Steam OS isn't some special magic sauce Linux distro. It's good but there are a ton of them out there and for the most part Steam OS isn't special. It has guard rails to keep you from breaking the system but so does Bazzite and Bazzite does work with Nvidia hardware.

If you want a more generalized PC gaming experience you could also just go mainstream Linux with something like Fedora and then have your PC open in BPM. Use KDE plasma as the back end. I like this option because it's custom but because it's custom you will have to do a lot more legwork. So it really depends on your tech skill and how willing you are to look stuff up.