I’m definitely interested in a modern Steam Machine and I wish them luck. But it’s tough to manage the logistics of crowdfunded hardware if you’re inexperienced and I’ve been burned before. Hopefully they can handle it.

They stopped the flash sales after they implemented their refund policy.

I don’t have an Nvidia card myself but have you tried the latest Wine-GE through Heroic?

Worst case, you can pick up the native Linux version on Steam right now for 80% off.

I’ve been running it for about a week now and I’m very happy with it. Thanks for the recommendation.

I think Nobara is also still a one man operation with GloriousEggroll being the sole maintainer in addition to his GE-Proton work.

SteamOS has a lot of bleeding edge code for newer features like HDR support that work well on the Steam Deck. But those features are still buggy and not as well tested on other hardware. That’s why there’s no general purpose SteamOS 3.x release yet.

So gaming distros like Nobara that also use the same code are going to have some problems and you can’t really fault them when upstream isn’t stable yet. If you want something less bleeding edge, use Fedora, Debian, etc.

The good news is that things will get better. It’s just going to take some more time.

I’ve had a lot of stability issues with past versions. An update crashed Wayland and I couldn’t recover. I’m going to try Bazzite next.

The original SteamOS was based on Debian. But that’s been unmaintained for years. Don’t use it.

SteamOS 3.5 is currently available for the Steam Deck only and is based on Arch Linux. Valve plans on generally releasing it but they haven’t yet.

The latest Debian or Ubuntu should work fine.

I’d be pouting too. Poor kitty.