(Mostly) Open Source SteamOS Forked into Homegrown ISO For Other Machines

"While Valve has yet to actually release a proper ISO for SteamOS 3 used on the Steam Deck, others have been taking it into their own hands to provide," reports GamingOnLinux, "like with the new HoloISO.

99% of what SteamOS uses is open source, so people can easily hack away at it to do whatever they want. The developer says that HoloISO is the closest he has seen to SteamOS 3, with the main packages coming directly from Valve.

It's described as a "first beta release."

Neowin supplies some context: Back in early March, Valve released the Steam Deck recovery image for Deck users who need to get back to a factory state. When it was released, many of us over at the Steam OS subreddit did the first thing any reasonable enthusiast would do and tried installing it on a standard PC. The results of this approach were mixed, and only partial successes were achieved. Then HoloISO happened....

The first release, called Ground Zero, allows users to install Steam OS on any machine. There are some things you need to know before you install this on your own.

There's a bunch of caveats, but the article still concludes that "If you're team red and you want to give this a shot, head over to the project's Github page to read more and download."

Thanks to Slashdot reader segaboy81 for sharing the story!