You can use this method to tweak a few settings. More importantly, this method has an Expert Install mode. What you’re installing is mostly just a customised version of Debian. Part of the reason for this is because once you install the OS, you still need to download Steam. For starters, the download is significantly smaller. There are two primary differences between this method and the previous one. If you’re feeling more adventurous (or want to minimise how much you have to download directly from Steam), you can use the secondary method. The SteamOS Installer (Here’s an unofficial torrent)
Support is reportedly coming in the future, but for now if you don’t have an NVIDIA graphics card, you’ll have to sit this one out.īefore you get started, here’s what you’ll need to download and/or collect: Keep safe and remove all hard drives except the one you want to install SteamOS on. Depending on how your boot tables are set up, you might inadvertently lose data on your other drives as well. The basic method is not optimised for installing on systems with multiple drives. This may wipe your secondary hard drives, too.Once you have SteamOS installed, you can create a new Windows partition, but this will wipe your existing setup. If you want to play around with it in a non-destructive manner, you can try it in a virtual machine.
This is a recovery image and your partition table will be wiped clean if you attempt to install it on the same hard drive. Due to the way Valve has distributed this image, you cannot partition a hard drive or dual boot it with your existing set up. Here’s how to do that.īefore we begin, there are some very important caveats: While 300 lucky preview testers scored Steam hardware as well, most of us have to install it on our own machines if we want to try it out. SteamOS has finally dropped in all its beta glory.
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