

On Monday, Valve's Sam Lantinga announced that the Steam Link app is now available in beta form on the Raspberry Pi 3 and 3 B+. Valve, however, is offering an alternative, and it comes in the form of Raspberry Pi. The Steam Link app continues to live on in mobile devices and smart TVs, so it's not the end of days, but this doesn't offer the same latency-mitigating clout as Ethernet-wired hardware. The simple black micro PCs designed to let you play games in the living room - or anywhere else in the house away from your gaming rig - is sold out everywhere and it seems Valve has no plans to produce more. I think it has to do with Gamescope which is a great technology from what I've read into.Steam Link boxes are no more. I have no idea when they might make the app run like normal but the steamlink app I believe runs it's own compositor which is the reason it can't run in X11 which makes sense. It's way better than the steamlink app was before which is great! It basically just used to be Steam Big Picture which was fine but not quite as sharp as this new hotness. I believe the interface is straight up from the Steam Deck because it's referenced a lot but it's not big deal.


Still in the TT2, I ran steamlink to start it up because I know, just like regular Steam, it starts up and has to pull extra packages to do it's thing so let it install all those extra packages and it will ask you to press enter at a few places to continue on.Įventually in the TT2 it will startup Steam all fancy like. Logged in again in the TTY2 and ran sudo apt install steamlink and installed everything the package initially pulls in. I run the video output to my TV with HDMI from the mini port. So as of 1/10/22 it was a fully updated, pretty vanilla install with just PiHole running and an install of Home Assistant in a Docker container which I hadn't really messed much with to be honest. I ran a casual sudo apt update & sudo apt full-upgrade "I'm running the Raspberry Pi OS Full 64bit Desktop version with Debian Bullseye (I referenced this guide from Ian which below is just how it went for me.) I did a summarized writeup of what worked for me, I am running the full desktop 64bit but it should still work because the issue isn't that it's 64 bit:
