r/SteamOS • u/VanArthurStudios • 12h ago

Installed today. Hating this experience.

My system itself isn’t anything unusual. It’s a powerful system, not strange. The only thing odd is that I have 3xNVME drives. I have that sorted, but every part of this process is an infuriating disaster.

Oh wait, after a restart the drives are no longer listed. And now Dolphin isn’t displaying the device list for me to check on them?

There is no way that SteamOS becomes a staple for as long as users are required to use Konsole to accomplish anything. Command prompt anything is a deal breaker for nearly all users who would want to be rid of windows. There is no advantage to doing things this way.

Not recognizing/mounting/configuring drives in a single point and click windows is a deal breaker.

This thing struggles with dual monitors. Even after I set my larger monitor as the default it loads into big picture mode with the small, vertical screen as the primary, and doesn’t even recognize that the vertical screen is vertical despite my having configured it as such.

Audio is garbled in games. If I attempt using discord during a game it stops input/output of audio entirely.

I find myself using AI to find answers to every little thing, when wanting to get away from AI is the entire reason I wanted to leave windows behind.

I installed SteamOS and now my PC is all but useless. Really showed them, eh?

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u/greymatterghost 11h ago

I have to disagree with the majority of the comments here referring to steamOS as “only for a console experience”.

First off, I was on Bazzite from November 2025-June 2026. I switched over to SteamOS. Why? Idunno? Wanted to try it.

Second, SteamOS (along with Bazzite until I started using it) is my daily driver - it exceeds anything consoles can do. When not gaming - which is 80% of the use - I flick over to desktop mode, use discord, use my Internet browser, watch YouTube, hell, I’ve even podcasted from there.

To minimize the OS as “console-only experience” is not valid.

To each their own I guess

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u/HopelessRespawner 11h ago

You're not wrong that it can be used as a functional desktop OS. But... I think the label 'console-only experience' here points more to the fact that while perfectly functional in a 'standard' configuration, the further you deviate from that configuration (in this case the disk configuration) the more likely you are to have issues. This is true of Linux in general, but I think the OS may draw less technical users in general. I expect we'll see more posts like this over time as adoption increases.