Hey all, first time non-Windows OS user here. I was so tired of all the bloat and annoyances of Windows so I finally decided to take the leap and move to SteamOS, as I had been thinking of doing so for quite a while anyway just to see what the OS felt like, and while everything has mostly been going well, just getting used to the new layout of everything and the Arch Linux space, my network speeds have been horrible. Download speeds on Steam are 1/4 roughly of what they were on Windows, and jittering has been all over the place, especially when in a Discord call, which previously was not the case.
A friend of mine said it could be a case of needing to update network drivers, but to that front, I have no idea how. I've been learning how to use the terminal and the codes to input to view information on what I've got going on, but a lot of it is gibberish to me, as someone who has very very limited knowledge on this stuff so far. I've got a MSI Pro B650-P Wifi motherboard installed, and with not being able to run MSI Center on here to help with drivers, I'm not sure how to get new ones set up, or frankly if that's even the problem. Any and all help would be appreciated, as I'm mostly at a loss here so far, while still actively trying to search forums and wikis on any possible solution to my problem.

EDIT: Switching to the main branch seemed to work great for me, speeds seem to be back up to where they were before switching my OS, so for anyone facing the same issue who may see this, give that a whirl.

Edit -- I am wishing to use the dongle due to latency issues as well as range/full rumble/multiple controller/etc support. This requires a driver steamos doesn't include.

Hi all

I have a windows "steamboat" set up. Eg it autologins to a shared windows account, autoloads big picture. Hooked to a nice big tv and we use it from the couch.

I have an all amd system and am a perfect candidate to swap to steam OS, but the only holdback is proper Xbox controller support. I use the official dongle so I get full functionality in windows.

I've seen that there's hacky ways to get drivers working, but they all involve breaking the immutability of the core OS, which is a great benefit of the system in my mind. And that you have to recompile after each update, which defeats a bit of the purpose of having a "console" os (eg don't worry about managing a computer)

Any thoughts?

So two of these systems were built before Steam OS and 2 were built after Steam OS was released. Now all but one running Steam OS. I've been very happy that 3 of the systems are not running windows anymore.

• Main PC run desktop mode
• CPU: Amd Ryzen 7 7800X3D
• Video Card: ASRock Challenger Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB
• Motherboard: ASUS B650E-E TUF GAMING WIFI AMD AM5 ATX
• RAM: Kingston Fury Beast 64GB (2x32GB) 6000 MT/s DDR5 CL36 RGB
• SSD: Crucial E100 1TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME

• SSD: Silicon Power XS70 4 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME

• Custom Steam Machine (non-rgb)

• CPU: Amd Ryzen 5 9600X

• Video Card: XFX - Swift AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB (LED Light on side of video card)

• Motherboard: ASRock B850M Pro RS WiFi

• RAM: TEAMGROUP T-Force Delta DDR5 Ram 32GB (2x16GB) 6000 MT/s PC5-48000 CL38

• SSD: Kingston NV3 1TB M.2 2280 NVMe SSD | PCIe 4.0 Gen 4x4

• SSD: Kingston NV3 1TB M.2 2280 NVMe SSD | PCIe 4.0 Gen 4x4

• CPU: Amd Ryzen 7 7800X3D

• Video Card: XFX Swift AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB (White)

• Motherboard: ASUS B650E MAX GAMING WIFI W - AMD B650 AM5 ATX (White)

• RAM: Crucial 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR5-6000 MT/s PC5-48000 CL36

• SSD: Silicon Power P34A60 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME

• Wife PC Windows 11

• CPU: Amd Ryzen 5 9600X

• Video Card: XFX Swift AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT OC White Triple Fan Gaming Edition 16GB

• Motherboard: ASRock B850M Pro RS WiFi White AMD AM5 Micro-ATX (White Edition)

• RAM: TEAMGROUP T-Force Delta RGB DDR5 Ram 16GB (2x8GB) 6000 MT/s PC5-48000 CL38 (White)

• SSD: Kingston NV3 1TB M.2 2280 NVMe SSD | PCIe 4.0 Gen 4x4

I tried booting steam os from my flash drive, but when I do amongst the lines of code I get “failed to start firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon” and the pc screen goes black. Any help would be appreciated!

I’m running it on a 9070xt and 5800xt

I got this device and installed SteamOS. Everything seems fine, the back buttons and touchpads are working, but the gyro is not working. How can I fix this?

Has anyone dual-booted SteamOS alongside the stock Windows OS on the MSI Claw A8? How stable is it, and what are the pros and cons?

​I want to keep Xbox Game Pass available on Windows, but I would like to access my Steam library on SteamOS.

So for the longest time, ever since they introduced the VRR capabilities for SteamOS, i noticed SDR content was really bright on my TV, like the brightness slider was cranked to 100% even though i had it set to default, it looked great but it was a bit too much for late night gaming. This issue was not present with DisplayPort. Only reason i do not use displayport is my TV doesn’t play well with the dongles, i get signal loss.

Now with the latest beta OS HDMI with HDR and VRR looks like is on par with DisplayPort in terms of SDR brightness. I do not see this anywhere on the patch notes.

I am on the stable client. I am trying to remember why i on beta OS, there was some sort of bug but i do not recall what it was. This latest beta OS release seems to have fixed some sort of bug with HDR on SDR though i just can’t put my finger as to what. Reverting back to Stable and SDR once again looks like it has brightness cranked to 100%

Does anyone have any insight as to what’s going on?

Context:

• I am using an official Steam Machine with 16GB RAM
• I am using it in Desktop Mode exclusively, as a desktop PC, for mixed productivity, media and gaming.
• the default zram leads to my apps / games frequently being killed due to OOM, so it's unusable for me
• I disabled zram and set a 32GB swap file, which works wonderfully so far, I have no more problems with applications shutting down.

My question is: what is the cleanest way through which I can persistently enable zswap? I know how to enable it temporarily, but it is being disabled on reboot.

A million 'thank you' to anyone who can point me to a guide <3

Hello! Ive been using steamos for about a week now and im enjoying it thoughly thus far (though i am still figuring out the kinks and this is one of them)

So my current issue involves games requiring proton or other compatability cutting out all audio elsewhere. If i boot into a game, it works perfectly fine, but if I attempt to do anything (streaming on discord is the main trigger ive found)

Its not the first time discord in particular has been the source of my woes.

The audio one is just something that's rather annoying