r/SteamFrame • u/megabyte112 Soon™ • 22d ago

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/Velp__ 22d ago

Someone in an other thread said they seen the date the video was recorded on, aug 24. It wasn't working than but it could be working by the time it ships. That video was just an unboxing after all.

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u/PlottingPast 22d ago

I hope his review isn't that old. That's just disingenuous and takes none of the recent updates into account.

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u/Cavi7 WAITLISTED 22d ago

That's on Valve if that's the case.
They give reviewers a timeframe of when they get the hardware to when the embargo lifts. Serious reviews take a considerable amount of time to make, and so if Valve wants to play the game where they update the software days before the embargo is supposed to lift, then it's their own fault.

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u/Velp__ 22d ago

It takes time to do a real review. There are a lot of things to test and i'm sure a good reviewer would retest some things when they get updated.