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

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 day ago

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

    • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      1 day 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.

  • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

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

    • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      1 day ago

      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

      • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        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.

        • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.worldOP
          3·
          1 day 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

        • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          1 day ago

          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 :)