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[–] Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I bet you can get some version of BSD running

[–] dankm@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

More-or-less bog standard amd64 with amd graphics? Assuming the generic AMD video drivers work FreeBSD should be able to get to a graphical UI out of the box. Might not have controller or gyro drivers, but a keyboard and mouse should work fine.

Now I have a project. Thanks, Droechai...

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I assume this is some joke about Steam OS I'm not understanding.

[–] dankm@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

.. no. I was dead serious about trying FreeBSD on the Steamdeck. FreeBSD supports almost all mainstream hardware you'd see on a normal desktop. Figured it'd be similar for the steamdeck. So now my weekend project is to try out booting FreeBSD 16 off a USB stick on my steamdeck.

After a small amount of duckduckgoing I found that it somewhat works already. GPU hardware is detected but can't initialize. That's a reasonable starting point for someone like me who isn't afraid of kernel-level code :/