VaporOS, an unofficial SteamOS installer

Hey everyone,

I've been working on an installer for SteamOS with additional features like better support for SSDs, Kodi is installed by default along with a lot of other software, mouse acceleration is disabled and it allows you to record gameplay with a button combination on your xbox 360 controller to name a few. Yesterday I released version 2.0 of it.

For the people who are interested, I posted it here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse/discussions/1/612823460253620427/

Enjoy!

That seems like a cool project! I definitely will take a look at it!

Great work man, keep it up

I actually building another PC soon, I'll give this a shot.

sorry for a stupid question but does this support steam in home streaming?

Not sure why you called it VaporOS installer but kool.

Steam for Linux does support in home streaming.

 

Thanks for creating this! I will have to try it out for myself sometime.

This looks cool, I'll check it out sometime

I'm downloading the ISO right now and will play around with it this weekend.

I'm guessing you mostly do apt-get's and copy over some default config files? Which would be easy to turn into a script that you can apply to any existing Debian based installation. You would not have to repackage the whole deal and waste bandwidth on a full ISO.

Have you thought about making this OS independent? The community could help out with porting the scripts to other platforms.

I think this is a great way to start a discussion about which software should be included on a gaming rig and get linux neophytes up and running quickly.

Probably because its target users are mostly vape sucking gaming fiends.

          ..."Which would be easy to turn into a script that you can apply to any existing Debian based installation."


It's not that simple. Firstly SteamOS uses a custom kernel, with the use of modified/optimised drivers in some cases.

Plus there's the constant client changes, experimental OpenGL translation layers, compatibility issues, not to mention all of the patches - most of which aren't public yet - covering the kernel/mesa/OpenGL etc.

You either add the alchemist repo, compile from source or install SteamOS - either way it'll never be OS independent.