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Realistically, what should be expected if I run this in my desktop with AMD 9000x CPU and a NVIDIA RTX 5000x GPU?

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Use CachyOS or Bazzite instead.

Can those be used without logging in online to Steam?

Yes you can use SteamOS without logging into Steam too!

Yes, they are Arch and Fedora Atomic variants respectively and don't require any accounts or corporate affiliation.

Only if you don't want to use Steam. I'm not really sure what point you think you're making here by constantly asking whether you can use SteamOS without logging in to Steam. You can however install literally anything you like on a Steam Deck.

It's nice on something like Steam Frame where it's hard to install a new OS. Forcing a log-in like Windows is evil and sucks when you don't have internet.

Nobody knows if it will be hard to install another OS on the Frame.

The hard part is making one work on it since none already exist like the hundreds that exist for normal computers like Deck. They might not let their 6dof headset tracking code be shared and getting that working would be very hard.

Given Valve's past history in this regard I'm inclined to believe it'll be possible to install whatever you like on the thing, and that there'll be a reasonably well documented way of integrating with the sensors/display. Valve have got decades of form on being as open as possible with their hardware and I've seen nothing recently to make me think that's changed.

Software wise their SteamVR / OpenVR stuff is very closed source. Someone had to reverse engineer their Lighthouse tracking which is hard but doing that is easier than making 6dof SLAM tracking just from camera access. All I am saying is its not easy and people will have to do hard work.

why?

Easier to report issues and have a fix implemented?

they have NVIDIA

You can expect it to not work. SteamOS is not designed or meant for installation as a generic OS. It is only designed to run on the specific supported hardware devices that it comes preinstalled on.

No matter how many times you see LTT install it on a system they have assembled, its not supposed to be used that way and not supported.

I don't think it works with NVIDIA.

I just run CachyOS on my gaming desktop which is also Arch based. Works fine.

Yeah that works but they asked about SteamOS not CachyOS and SteamOS doesn't work with NVIDIA.

Ok, I was only making a suggestion which I thought might be helpful.

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