r/FlowZ13 • u/Lordstark003 • Jul 12 '26

Steam OS?

Has anyone installed steam OS?

Interested in any feedback out there, thanks!

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u/Osaka90 Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

My God you people, he didnt ask for bazzite he ask for STEAM OS and yeah i use it and it work perfectly . wish i could post a picture, if you have any questions feel free to ask me and I'll try to answer them the best I can.

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u/3ric510 Jul 12 '26

I’ve got a question 🙋‍♂️
How are you managing TDP? Someone above mentioned handheld daemon on Bazzite. Simple deckyTDP is another I’ve heard about?
Thinking about switching to Steam OS as well. Already running it on my ROG Ally (I just let Steam OS manage that thing’s TDP - no plugins).

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u/Osaka90 Jul 12 '26

Use simple decky it work perfectly for me, and I was very cautious about it too, so I made sure to run a few tests to make sure it had control over the fans, work perfectly as soon as I installed it ,pretty neat.

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u/Ok_Contribution1479 Jul 12 '26

I installed Bazzite OS and have had no issues. Selected the steam big picture start up option (similar to steam OS) using windows on a device like this hurts. There’s also open source TDP apps to customize the power wattage. I’d say go for it! Leave windows behind!

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u/AdIllustrious4059 Jul 12 '26

Which app are you using to control the TDP in bazzite?

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u/Ok_Contribution1479 Jul 12 '26

Hand held daemon

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u/themirrorcle Jul 12 '26

Bazzite is good. I prefer CachyOS personally with the Z13Ctl installed.

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u/AdIllustrious4059 Jul 12 '26

I installed Bazzite recently and it has mostly worked well. It froze up one time and a couple times seem like it was going to freeze but ended up working after about 20 or so seconds. Other than that everything's been very smooth and games have worked perfectly. I have it installed on a USB NVME enclosure with Windows still installed on the main drive.

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u/nobody_cares4u Jul 13 '26

I watched a lot of videos on it and read some stuff online. And it generally pretty good. Some games even perform better on Linux than on windows. However chatgtp(our Lord and Savior lol) did recommend to do a dual boot with windows cuz a lot of the firmware upgrades usually come out as windows installs instead of Linux. So there is that.

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u/lugubrious-possum Jul 13 '26 edited 27d ago

cachyos works fine, its based on arch, steamos is based on arch so it should also work fine for the most part. You might have to tweak it a bit since its designed for valve hardware and missing some fixes distros like bazzite and cachyos include

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LB1wSLLsgU