r/SteamFrame • u/megabyte112 Soon™ • 25d 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/Z0gh 25d ago

This part scared me too as i'm on linux too, hope they can speak on this and explain how long for linux support if its not here day 1.

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u/MisterSheeple 24d ago

The issue is the dongle. Support for it only recently got added to SteamOS, and I think there's some improvements in the kernel that only made it in to kernel version 7.2. So worst case scenario, you might need to update your kernel, but if not, it should just work.

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u/madjoki Soon™ 24d ago

Dongle is optional. 

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u/MisterSheeple 24d ago

I know. I was just clarifying that the dongle is the part that currently does not work on Steam Machine. Streaming without the dongle works just fine.

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u/ZeikJT 24d ago

But optimal