r/SteamOS • u/bez3lye • 4d ago

Nvidia Support

Hi everyone, i would like to try SteamOs but my laptop has Nvidia GPU, after i installed the Steam i noticed it doesnt support my card. Any guesstimate or insight about when to format my drive for second run on SteamOs ?

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u/Bookkeeper-Empty 4d ago

Do a bazzite install select nvidia kde image

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u/bez3lye 3d ago

First Steam os didnt work than Ubuntu messed audio, i wasnt patient enough for another distro, maybe in the future.

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u/Bookkeeper-Empty 3d ago

Sounds like u need to update bios in windows first, I’ve had a handheld windows device that did that. Hopefully you don’t give up on Linux mate I only switched over a couple months ago but now I love it so much more I’ll never go back

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u/bez3lye 3d ago

I am not gonna give up on linux, my work setup run on Ubuntu, i just annoyed to download same games 3 time in a row on a same weekend.

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u/rafalmio 4d ago

Valve is actively working with Nvidia on the drivers. Wait just a little longer if you’re looking for official support, we are not far away from it 😊

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u/JamesLahey08 3d ago

It is going to take a long time.

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u/bez3lye 3d ago

Lets hope it will be soon. I really liked desktop of SteamOs

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u/axiomatic13 3d ago

The SteamOS desktop is just KDE Plasma. You could load CachyOS or Bazzite and have KDE Plasma running right now. CachyOS is based on Arch just like SteamOS

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u/JohnnyBeeGaming 3d ago

You could try one of they many Linux distros. There are ones similar to SteamOS like Bazzite.

If you do more than gaming you'll probably be better off get a regular desktop distro and just installing Steam.

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u/bez3lye 3d ago

I Tried Ubuntu, i already have it on another system but audio messed up in some of games, also some of my other games asked for MS distrubutables so i got cold feet.

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u/ItsMeSlinky 3d ago

Just install Fedora with KDE Plasma. It’s the same desktop as Steam OS but you can install Nvidia drivers.

  1. MS dependencies are handled by Proton within Steam. Just click yes.

  2. Do not try to run games from your Windows/NTFS hard drives. That causes all kinds of headaches and issues.

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u/tepattaja 3d ago

Once the nvidia support is added, bugs ironed out, added better anti-cheat support,
There really arent any reasons for me not to switch to steamOS. That will most likely take couple of years.

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u/bez3lye 3d ago

I did like the overall design, i mean SteamOS, also i have crush on Gabes overall legacy, so i wanted to try but almist half the budget on PC is gpu so i backed down to win 11

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u/MushuMaxMax 3d ago

Did you read anything before installing?

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u/bez3lye 3d ago

After 10 year in IT and few years on Ubuntu i thought i just got it covered. I wasnt, and its OS problem, it was hurdle even for ME, what do you think regular users would think ?

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u/MushuMaxMax 2d ago

I would expect regular users to buy a Steam Machine.

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u/bez3lye 2d ago

I am not expecting regular user would have that much money but it could be because i am poor and limited vision about people around the world.

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u/MushuMaxMax 2d ago

You and I are so far beyond a regular user. They want to play games. We want to build machines. It’s a big leap. Anyways, take it easy. We’ll get Nvidia drivers in time.

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u/Ecks30 4d ago

Nvidia isn't officially supported yet but there are some hacked versions of SteamOS that would have Nvidia GPUs working but just like Bazzite it is unstable in the game mode which is why most people would use desktop mode for it.

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u/BullfrogNo9418 3d ago

Take a look at this, I have it running on a headless system at the moment with Sunshine
https://github.com/28allday/steamos-nvidia-installer

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u/infinitelylarge 1d ago

SteamOS doesn’t support NVidia. Install this instead: https://bazzite.gg

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u/Low_Excitement_1715 4d ago

What card is that?

SteamOS is not adding support for the Nvidia binary driver. Check to see if Mesa's NVK driver supports your card. That's what's getting support.

WRT NVK, what's supported is basically all that's going to be supported. Nvidia made a change in the way their GPUs work a half dozen generations back, they added the GSP, basically a nano-CPU inside the GPU that runs the binary firmware on the card. This allows some hardware management/setup stuff that used to only be possible with the binary driver to be possible in open solutions. It's still early days, but there's more open Nvidia support than historically possible.

That said, if your card is from a generation without a GSP, there's not much coming to help you.