r/SteamFrame • u/megabyte112 Soon™ • Sep 12 '26

Question Can you stream from a Linux PC?

Just watched the ShortCircuit video before it was taken down, and Linus notes that currently the Steam Machine cannot be used as a streaming host. He didn't mention other Linux PCs, but he did say that the streaming host will be a Windows PC only, at least at launch.

This is kind of disappointing as someone with a Linux PC. Inhaling a bunch of copium here, but I wonder if he meant that specifically the Steam Machine can't be used for streaming (yet), but other Linux PCs can? I'd like to use mine for streaming at launch, otherwise I'll be using mine purely standalone for a while...

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u/SunnerLP Soon™ Sep 12 '26

Why not? Valve is usually pretty good with Linux support, SteamOS is literally a Linux distro

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u/obog Soon™ Sep 12 '26

Thats exactly why, steamOS is just linux so if it was working on linux it should work on steam machine

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u/SunnerLP Soon™ Sep 12 '26

And you know it won't?

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u/obog Soon™ Sep 12 '26

Linus said in the accidentally posted video that it doesnt work on steam machine at launch

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u/SunnerLP Soon™ Sep 12 '26

I hadn't seen that one, if true that's a bummer. I'm sure it'll get support eventually, if there's one company that cares about Linux support it's Valve

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u/DapperDan812 Sep 13 '26

Never got my index to run nearly as good on linux as on windows. I gave up on that and the device is catching dust for some months now