• Jawa@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I thought this too, but unfortunately in terms of modding and general use they are very limited, afaik. When I looked into it, it boiled down to: There’s an sdk to develop stuff for it and you can get root access but good luck trying to replace the os or anything like that. That being said, this is what I remember from ~2 years ago, so if it can be customised more now, please let me know. I kinda bought 2 in hopes of being able to do that :D

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      10 months ago

      I meant that I ought to use it for its intended purpose after all.

      (But yes, I would still like the option of replacing the OS.)

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        10 months ago

        Honestly, I wouldn’t bother replacing the OS. It’ll more than make up for the cost in labor to just buy a raspberry pi and install the steam link software on it. The steam link hardware is not nearly beefy enough to do anything interesting with.

        I just let mine be a little magic box for couch gaming.

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      10 months ago

      Why would you need sdk? It’s literally linux box. Just use GCC.

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          10 months ago

          Thanks for link. Seems like regular buildroot for crosscompilation. I’m more wondering if it is using X11, wayland or KMS/DRI.

          On the first glance seems to use dri. Basically linux box.

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      10 months ago

      I thought you could literally install sunlight/moonlight on it and have an even better experience. I never got around to trying after it got recommended to me