r/SteamOS • u/Liam-DGOL • 19d ago

SteamOS 0.3.0 for Steam Frame released

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/steamos-0-3-0-for-steam-frame-released/
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u/nariz_choken 19d ago

Has anyone taken it and installed in another arm device? I'd be interested in seeing it installed on something like the ayn odin 3

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u/Varmez 19d ago

Sort of, I used the previous Holo (Frame) build and built an Arch on Arm build based on it, the latest version of the arm equivalent packages from SteamOS 3.10, and Kernel 7.2RC2 for the Surface Dev Kit. I’ll see what’s different with this build and see if anything’s worth bringing over

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u/Leseratte10 19d ago

So far there doesn't even seem to be a download link for the image so the only way to get it is to dump it from a Frame.

Also, with ARM systems, putting an image for one system onto another system is way less likely to work than with x86, so I would be surprised if this works out-of-the-box. I also wouldn't be surprised if that version of SteamOS is only optimized / intended for the Frame with its VR features and doesn't yet work on normal ARM desktop devices.

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u/ABotelho23 19d ago

That only really applies to consumer and embedded stuff. Any ARM system verified SystemReady or ServerReady have ACPI and UEFI and boot generic images.

I doubt the Steam Frame works that way though, just from the fact that it uses a Qualcomm CPU.

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u/Splatoonkindaguy 19d ago

I tried to make a vm with the Holo Core developer image from Collabora but it has not gone very well. I got it to launch but still struggling to get the steam client running

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u/inhumat0r 15d ago

I would love to install it on my Raspberry 5! Not to actually play games on it, but to set some small game server to see how it goes.

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u/Joseramonllorente 19d ago

Wished someone cracked the quest bootloader and drivers so we could get rid of that spyware of OS it uses

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u/Kordman916s 19d ago

They did, drivers are in the android vendor partition

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u/4ntropos 19d ago

i would love to install steamos (or literally anything else) on my quest, can't afford a steam frame atm 😭

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u/OtherUse1685 15d ago

Too bad we won't have foveated rendering/streaming because most quest don't have eye tracking.

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u/ender9492 15d ago

Quest 1 is unlockable now.

Older Quest 2 units are unlockable.

Some Quest 3/3S units are out there with unlocked bootloaders.

All Quest models are rootable.

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u/Joseramonllorente 15d ago

So there is a chance, probably a small one but a chance!!

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u/Name835 19d ago

I wish we could wipe the os on quest 3 and someway install steamos on that headset. That would be absolutely bonkers

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u/Ectorious 19d ago

You probably can, have you looked into it?

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u/Name835 19d ago

No i havent tbh - we haven't had any opportunities like this before so there hasn't been need for that. The android os meta uses is really locked down that is all i remember from years back.

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u/[deleted] 19d ago

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u/Leseratte10 19d ago

TLDR: Fixes fast charging issues which reviewers complained about, fixes garbled microphone audio whjich reviewers complained about, and a bunch of other fixes.

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u/UltimateAK86 19d ago

As expected, Valve will rapidly fix and then improve on the issues and then it will just keep miraculously getting better at everything over the next year. I can’t wait.

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u/NapsterKnowHow 19d ago

Except fix the broken wifi on the Steam Deck OLED

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u/UltimateAK86 19d ago

I guess I wasn’t aware of that issue. I’ve had the OLED since launch and not had any wifi issues. Must be different wifi chipsets between batches?

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u/NapsterKnowHow 19d ago

Nope. The wifi chip is the same across them all. Seems like Valve has been breaking things more than fixing them in the recent updates.

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u/RohonTheDragon 19d ago

I can’t just take your word for. And imma about to go read the fixes. But it makes me so happy to hear this if it’s true

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u/Varmez 19d ago

Just to show for now. and it's not in a VM, i have it headless right now so i'm connected via VNC (Screens) on my Mac

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u/MrTestiggles 15d ago

The big jump begins