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ChimeraOS Landing Page

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ChimeraOS

Steam, Epic, GOG, retro consoles, and more... all from your couch

If you like SteamOS and want something like it on desktop, though, I'd look for something with the same base/underlying system (Arch Linux) and the same desktop environment as the Deck's desktop mode (KDE/Plasma). My favorite is Manjaro in my desktops/laptops. This'll be very much like the Deck's desktop mode without the gaming mode (though Steam's Big Picture mode is basically the same interface now). Or if you're setting up some kind of a set-top box and want a game mode, ChimeraOS is a gaming-first distro very similar to SteamOS but compatible with more types of hardware (nVidia cards really don't work at all with HoloISO).

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Manjaro Landing Page

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Manjaro

Manjaro Linux is a linux distribution which is based on arch linux. It uses the PACMAN package manager.

If you like SteamOS and want something like it on desktop, though, I'd look for something with the same base/underlying system (Arch Linux) and the same desktop environment as the Deck's desktop mode (KDE/Plasma). My favorite is Manjaro in my desktops/laptops. This'll be very much like the Deck's desktop mode without the gaming mode (though Steam's Big Picture mode is basically the same interface now). Or if you're setting up some kind of a set-top box and want a game mode, ChimeraOS is a gaming-first distro very similar to SteamOS but compatible with more types of hardware (nVidia cards really don't work at all with HoloISO).

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Batocera.linux Landing Page
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Batocera.linux

Batocera.linux is an open-source and completely free retro-gaming distribution that can be copied to a USB stick or an SD card with the aim of turning any computer/nano computer into a gaming console during a game or permanently.
Pricing:
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I don't think many people have done that, as u/tonymurray was explaining. But to be fair, there are a few other decent gaming-first distros. Someone might want to install ChimeraOS or Batocera, to give a few examples. Others might have bought the Deck to serve as a cheap home computer, and replaced the OS with one that doesn't have a gaming mode (say, Ubuntu, or Manjaro). I think those numbers would be extremely low, but there are still cases where replacing SteamOS with something else might be an appealing idea to some.

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