almost got steam os running on Nvidia hardware
Soooooo I recently decided to see if I could brute-force the official , unmodified Valve SteamOS recovery image onto standard desktop hardware. I know community forks like Bazzite exist for this exact reason, but I wanted to see what it would take to bypass Valve’s hardware validation on an non supported hardware and what would happen if I did... Well we know.. The Hardware i used:( this is my old test bed server) CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 GPU: Nvidia RTX 2080 Target OS: Official Valve SteamOS Recovery Image The Roadblocks: If you just boot the recovery USB and try to install it without a standard NVMe drive, the script instantly fails. The official installer runs an NVMe sanitize command that is explicitly tuned for the NVMes iirc. On my experience, it throws an error and halts. If you try to restart the process, you get hit with constant "disk busy" or "resource locked" errors. Here is the triage process I used to get it installed anyway: S...
