The Steam Machine of the Future

[Music] bite the next generation of Linux gaming is here and this is really cool it's like my own steam machine I have a home theater PC which I'll link up here to uh where I reviewed this Mini PC it's rdna A3 it's an APU 784 HS AMD processor let's just say it's not a great computer for gaming but we're going to use it like we use a steam deck and that's kind of cool and I did the entire setup live on stream for the very first time so if you want to see the very first impressions I'll put a link down below but I want to just show you this because it's so cool it brings gaming to the masses and makes it easier than Windows in a lot of ways and a lot of people are like wait a second Linux gaming is you know uh hard and all these other things normally you know I probably agree with you a lot of times Linux gaming is harder than Windows but not with bite and one just to silence those things because I hear people running in the background going ah I can't believe you Titus hell divers 2 on my Arch Linux install does this just just to show you some bugs that happen in Linux gaming but if Dro is set up to run as a gaming box it can work extremely well as stream deck is shown well bazik kind of picks this up so you can see right here it's broken something with in protect blah blah blah it just I'll troubleshoot it they'll be some option I can add to the thing or maybe I'll download some other thing it it it's complex I get it and I don't want to make you go uh I'll just stay on Windows I want to show you this because it's kind of amazing here's the startup and as it starts up I'm kind of like okay pretty cool and we can flip around it's exactly like a steam deck but I want to show you the settings menu because this is no steam deck I've put this directly on my TV as well I'll put a uh actually photos because my wife loves using this little Home Theater box to play like Hi-Fi rush I thought that's kind of cool and the HDR worked right out of the box so I was kind of Blown Away by the display scaling and HDR working as well as it did without me having to do anything so this is what I'm rocking right now it's this steam version right here this entire build everything it's using the 7840 HS with uh 780m Graphics here's the frequency eight cores 16 threads and RAM has about 32 gigs but there's no external GPU on it and this is just what we kind of have it's it's kind of crazy and the vram is only 4 gigs but I wanted to just show a stock setting without me messing with anything and uh let's hit the hell divers because hell divers as you saw on my regular system it just kind of bombed out now this game is a little more demanding and using it through an APO is not recommended however I've kind of just set it up and it works here comes the launch and let's see what we get do we get the in protect error there's the start screen I'm going to just fast forward through this and you'll notice right off I've done some optimization for it being an APU if you're going to game without a graphics card expect Graphics to not look the best but I basically took the steam deck and I was like okay steam deck runs at 800p I'm going to crank this box to about a 720p that way I can get 60 frames per second which I don't think hell divers 2 get 60 frames on the steam deck but the cool thing is we have all the same controls over here and let's put in a little bit of performance settings okay great and I'm going to just jump in and run a quick game here now I don't have any sound going but if we let's say we wanted sound let's see what we can do here trying to do this in a Linux instance probably not the smartest idea but look at that live sound change that's just crazy now and the shadow of [Laughter] oh my word all right well I think we could easily say this is pretty darn cool uh got two kills watch out I carried this team but uh I was just kind of Blown Away with how good Everything feels right out of the gate it feels like a console using an actual PC much like the steam deck it feels just like that almost all of it is here if you need to get to the desktop to do kind of a customization you still have that switch to desktop option just like you did and I want to show a couple things on the desktop real fast because I thought those are really interesting but before we do that on the settings page if you want to update the system you can actually just go you know what let's go ahead and apply those updates and what it does is it goes in the back end updates the whole bite steam deck all of it uh OS and makes this exactly up to date with all the latest patches without breaking anything which is amazing and even more so they have this you can load on Steam deck and I might actually just wipe out my steam deck OS and roll basite on my steam deck as well because I do like a lot of the customizations the latest kernels a lot of the latest drivers so you get a little bit more performance than your typical stable release from Steam deck and the beauty of it is everything's kind of done through these oci images so it's all immutable meaning you can't really break the system uh doing anything and we'll get on the desktop and use their package manager now a lot of people know Fedora based systems use like dnf package managers this one dnf is there but it doesn't really work because it's an immutable file system you really need to use something called ujust and ujust is really cool because you can do IMU deck you can do decky loader you can do all these things that you usually would do to pimp out your steam deck well they just made it a lot easier using bazai and it's really neat the integration they have you don't see like grub menu or anything traditional that you would see in most Linux dros they really built this to basically emulate Steam OS on a PC all right we're coming back up and we're back all right we have we have our controller working now so what I'm going to do let's just loot Boot and I'm using the controller to basically manage everything for now but as we switch the desktop I kind of want to show some of the more Linux desktop features that some Gamers might want to use so we'll have our regular keyboard and mouse they have a really neat terminal ptxs is what this one called and I'm just going to take this and we're going to zoom in just a hair here's the commands that it has you got to have Neo fetch that's just just so cool but youjust is the main package manager and look at all the built-in options here you can do auto update you can do uh virtualization W Droid is here now obviously this is going to require some bit of tinkering around but after seeing all this I'm like I love all these options I wish almost every Linux drro gave these types of options right out of the gate but you can install like open razor which is a great open source utility to manage razor gaming appliances it's really meant for those Gamers out there that want to switch to Linux but are afraid to they they go oh you know what I really don't want to mess with so much of the technicals but if you're just using your PC for Gam and all your games have Linux compatibility this could be a game changer this could be the console for the PC as most games have Linux compatibility they just require some tinkering and one thing I want to point out is like the g u deck that's one thing that almost everybody does on Steam deck which is great they also have decki here too so if you're trying to do Dey loader you can actually do that through youjust so I've already actually installed AMU deck on this system but I want to actually show that but at the same time I also want to install Dey loader as well so let's just try real fast what happens if we just go you just set up Dei it's not installed so let's hit install Dei we'll put in our password and it's installed Dey loaders now on your system same thing kind of goes for uck too since I've already installed it let's exit out I just wanted to show that package manager we thought it was unique you can also download flat packs and the things that you normally would do in like a Linux environment even like zero ad and other open source games maybe tux cart if that's your thing but I want to return to gaming mode and kind of show you UDC uh specifically just launching an emulation station showing that so I could install all my games but I have a pretty extensive emulation library and what I want to do here is just showcase a few things like let's go like PlayStation 2 emulation this is something like pie couldn't handle well we'll go ahead and grab like Fatal Frame one of my wife's favorite games of all time and you'll notice there's still some things like launching full screen mode uh we could we could fix that and some little tweaks to UD deck you can make we'll just go new game now to show the sound here again I like the sound on the fight now I'm using a little bit of a weird capture device that's why it's it's not really liking a a lot of the change you can't hear it right so let's let's change the audio we do it on the [Music] Fly I mean it's so cool so you can play your old game and you can upscale this you can do a lot of things with it as well oh man so cool but we're just going to we're going to exit right back out and we're back on the main screen and I got a few things here like uh probably my favorite game of all time like Final Fantasy 3 I absolutely love this one and we got the the classic intro for Final Fantasy 3 with the organ music here oh it just never gets old I still love it to this day [Music] [Laughter] I'm sorry I'm having too much fun here I need to quit wrap up this video and just kind of give you my final thoughts because there's just so much cool stuff that you can do with bite and I see a future with the like the ultimate steam machine that is built by a Linux community in a mutable disto like it's packaged in bite that's not perfect there's been a few things specifically like launching dolphin and Wii emulation can be a little bit hit and miss so I I I'll mess around with that a little more I've also had some power management issues like let's say leave it on for an extended period time I've had a couple lockups sometimes when I go to turn it off it doesn't turn off all the way uh and I have to go and hard power it off but that's about it from the con side of things those little things for such a new project uh is not bad they've polished this thing to an extent that no other Linux Dro out there I think I would recommend to to a gamer except for maybe this one this is insane I hope you guys enjoy it try out bite and if you look on the main screen here the download button from like the official basite website the cool thing about picking out your Hardware how do you want to use it if you want to use it like a home theater PC you want KDE and and you're have an AMD as your main GPU you just say hey I want to use it like a steam machine it'll recommend basite deck or if you say no it'll just recommend download regular basite if you want to just get kicked to a desktop without going directly into the steam deck type interface and this is really good and if you're using like an Nvidia card for your PC you could switch that out and then it automatically loads all those drivers this takes out all the guesswork that you have in Linux even a a veteran like me I still run into problems when I I'm messing around in Linux with certain things and having a a team of Gamers uh on the bite team here all these people this this is the people that made it happen and they're sitting there gaming every day and when they find things wrong they go ahead and tweak the system so it works easily for you so you don't have to spend any time tinkering and I think that's amazing I will I run this for my main system maybe I mean I you know it's been almost a month now and you know me I like to reload my system every month and and this looks like a fun challenge to see if I could use it for an entire uh as my main box will I do it I don't know maybe maybe on another drive we'll see we'll see but with that let me know your thoughts down in the comments and I'll see you in the next one

Channel: Chris Titus Tech

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Length: 14min 23sec (863 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 17 2024