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With ChimeraOS you can get installed and gaming in no time at all. It's easy to install, gets you right into Steam Big Picture mode with their own custom built-in web app for managing games from various sources including Steam, Epic Games, GOG and others.
The highlights of this release include:
- Added support for AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT
- Added support for ROG XG Mobile external GPUs
- Added a limited work around for the Steam client selecting non-HDMI/DisplayPort audio output by default
- Fixed Xbox button not functioning on Xbox Series controllers connected via Bluetooth (Xbox One S controllers are still affected)
- Fixed wifi not working after wake from sleep on MSI Claw
- Worked around Steam running the boxtron compatibility tool at startup
- Disabled creation of status collections by default (i.e. ChimeraOS Verified, Playable, Unsupported)
- Expanded support for launching games through physical media:
- Added support for USB NFC readers
- Added support for the MIG Flash Dumper
- See details on the Physical media wiki page
See more on the website.
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Corben 3 days ago
This one is really interesting (to me)
I was never a distro hopper, but maybe on handheld pcs I'll become one
Hm... just as I got bazzite installed on the ROG Ally
- Added support for ROG XG Mobile external GPUs
I was never a distro hopper, but maybe on handheld pcs I'll become one
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udekmp69 3 days ago
@Corben Bazzite forks their gamescope-session and contains the same workaround in the quirk list that supported the XG Mobile that ChimeraOS has: https://github.com/bazzite-org/gamescope-session/blob/main/usr/share/gamescope-session-plus/device-quirks
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Corben 2 days ago
@udekmp69: I was able to use the egpu with bazzite, I just had to enable it through Windows first and then reboot. "Support" for egpus sounds to me like I would be able to do that from within ChimeraOS. Bazzite's wiki currently states that it's not fully supported: https://docs.bazzite.gg/Handheld_and_HTPC_edition/Handheld_Wiki/#egpu-support
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