Valve will finally let you build your own Steam Machine with SteamOS for desktop
Valve will finally let you build your own Steam Machine with SteamOS for desktop
Valve 终于允许你使用桌面版 SteamOS 构建自己的 Steam Machine
If you don’t get lucky with Valve’s Steam Machine reservation system, you can make your own Steam Machine instead. Valve says that “starting with the SteamOS 3.8 release, you can put together your own Steam Machine using whatever PC parts you want.” SteamOS 3.8.10 launched last week with a slew of updates, including “improved compatibility with recent Intel and AMD platforms.” Alongside that improved compatibility, Valve is giving gamers the green light to install SteamOS on their own desktops.
如果你没能通过 Valve 的 Steam Machine 预订系统抢到名额，你完全可以自己动手打造一台。Valve 表示：“从 SteamOS 3.8 版本开始，你可以使用任何你想要的 PC 部件来组装自己的 Steam Machine。” SteamOS 3.8.10 已于上周发布，带来了大量更新，包括“改进了对近期 Intel 和 AMD 平台的兼容性”。除了这些兼容性提升外，Valve 也正式允许玩家在自己的台式机上安装 SteamOS。
In an interview with The Verge, Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais said Valve has been “rolling out improvements to [SteamOS] so it’s more compatible with desktop hardware,” including eventual support for Nvidia graphics.
在接受 The Verge 采访时，Valve 的 Pierre-Loup Griffais 表示，Valve 一直在“对 [SteamOS] 进行改进，使其与桌面硬件更加兼容”，这其中也包括未来对 Nvidia 显卡的支持。
Griffais says Valve has “a growing team” working on Nvidia driver support for SteamOS, adding, “We’re collaborating with Nvidia very closely.” While he mentioned that Nvidia support might not come this year, Griffais emphasized that “it’s certainly something that we’re working on in the background.”
Griffais 表示，Valve 有一个“不断壮大的团队”正在致力于 SteamOS 的 Nvidia 驱动支持，并补充道：“我们正在与 Nvidia 密切合作。” 虽然他提到 Nvidia 的支持可能不会在今年实现，但 Griffais 强调，“这绝对是我们正在后台推进的工作。”
It’s technically been possible to run SteamOS on your own hardware for a while now, but compatibility has been mostly limited to AMD systems. So far installing it has also required using a Steam Deck recovery image, a process that, speaking from experience, is much less straightforward than the installation process for most other Linux distributions. Trying to run SteamOS on Intel or Nvidia hardware has not been easy so far.
从技术上讲，在自己的硬件上运行 SteamOS 已经有一段时间了，但兼容性主要局限于 AMD 系统。到目前为止，安装它还需要使用 Steam Deck 的恢复镜像，根据经验，这个过程比大多数其他 Linux 发行版的安装过程要复杂得多。目前尝试在 Intel 或 Nvidia 硬件上运行 SteamOS 并不容易。
According to Griffais, Valve is working to change that, which could mean that down the line, you’ll be able to run SteamOS on just about any gaming PC hardware you want, including Nvidia.
据 Griffais 称，Valve 正在努力改变这一现状，这意味着在未来，你将能够在几乎任何你想要的电竞 PC 硬件上运行 SteamOS，包括 Nvidia 显卡。
For the more immediate future, Griffais says SteamOS in its current state should offer a “good experience” on console-like PC setups: “If you have something that is similar to the use case of a Steam Machine, where you have a PC that’s gonna be plugged into a TV, and has a single hard drive that you’re not going to try and dual boot […] you can put SteamOS on there, and you’ll have an experience that is very similar to a Steam Deck docked or a Steam Machine, with some caveats, of course,” like a lack of HDMI-CEC support. But “the core bits of the experience are there. The SteamOS graphics driver, the shader precompilation […] you can get at all of that with the SteamOS.”
对于近期而言，Griffais 表示，SteamOS 在当前状态下应该能在类主机 PC 设置上提供“良好的体验”：“如果你有类似 Steam Machine 的使用场景，比如一台连接电视的 PC，且只有一个硬盘，不需要双系统启动……你可以在上面安装 SteamOS，你将获得与底座模式下的 Steam Deck 或 Steam Machine 非常相似的体验，当然也有一些限制，”例如缺乏 HDMI-CEC 支持。但“核心体验都在那里。SteamOS 的图形驱动程序、着色器预编译……你都可以通过 SteamOS 获得。”
While Griffais mentioned a “SteamOS installer,” he also said it’s not designed for dual-booting alongside another OS just yet. “There’s not yet an install wizard where you can easily, you know, move another OS out of the way and partition your hard drive.”
虽然 Griffais 提到了“SteamOS 安装程序”，但他同时也表示，它目前还不是为与其他操作系统共存的双启动而设计的。“目前还没有一个安装向导能让你轻松地移动其他操作系统并重新分区硬盘。”
The current SteamOS installation process is still intended to put a fresh OS on a new PC, but Griffais says he imagines “a time where it’s a better experience to install on your desktop and have it coexist with a different operating system.”
目前的 SteamOS 安装过程仍然旨在为新 PC 安装全新的操作系统，但 Griffais 表示，他设想“未来会有更好的体验，让你能在台式机上安装它，并使其与不同的操作系统共存。”
Building a gaming PC right now will probably be at least as expensive as a Steam Machine due to the ongoing RAM shortage. But if you don’t want to wait for a Steam Machine reservation, the DIY route is now an option. You can also install SteamOS on an existing gaming PC that’s running Windows or a different operating system, but you will need to wipe your drive in the process (so back up everything beforehand).
由于目前内存短缺，现在组装一台电竞 PC 的成本可能至少与购买一台 Steam Machine 相当。但如果你不想等待 Steam Machine 的预订，DIY 路线现在是一个选择。你也可以在运行 Windows 或其他操作系统的现有电竞 PC 上安装 SteamOS，但在此过程中你需要清除硬盘数据（所以请务必提前备份所有内容）。
There are also other gaming-focused Linux distros to try if you’d rather wait for more improvements to the SteamOS desktop experience, like Bazzite or Nobara.
如果你宁愿等待 SteamOS 桌面体验进一步完善，也可以尝试其他专注于游戏的 Linux 发行版，例如 Bazzite 或 Nobara。