Tootfinder

Yes, you can run Jellyfin from your Steam Machine. It's right there in the Discovery software center.
Only quirk, other than all the quirks and fussiness Jellyfin has on it's folder structure, is that it's installed with flatpak so you gotta explicitly grant it permission to read your data directory if it isn't the default one.
Mine, for instance, is at ~/data/media so I have to:
And have to do that after install, but before setup-wizard.
Jellyfin is just nightmarish for copying to a new machine in general. Don't try and copy the config. Just be sure to always store your thumbnail images etc. alongside the files and accept it's going to be a rescan a loss of all your watched-already data I guess.
#steamMachine #steamOS #jellyfin

Three hours or so of faffing and I've managed to get it mostly working.
Turned the Steam Machine to the beta stream, deleted all network config, turned a "Force Supplicant" mode off. Dunno what turned it on.
Lots of rebooting and retrying and re-configuring.
Was hoping this machine/VR-headset might be something I could recommend to non-techy family but this is far too shoddy.
I have successfully used the dongle to stream No Man's Sky a couple of times, and it seems to reboot now into a working state.
It's not really massively better than just streaming over the normal house wifi where the repeater is in line-of-sight anyway. Weird seeing mpeg compression artifacts in your peripheral vision isn't it.
Seems to crash within 30 minutes or so of No Man's Sky play so far. Might be the game's fault rather than the streaming combinations. Stays crashed somehow even after alt-f4 closing it. Have to reboot.
Anyway. Process but still feels shonky and no way I can recommend this to newbies or the less technically proficient.
Battery needs a recharge now anyway.
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The Steam Machine has finally arrived.
Due to the fact this one will have ridiculous amounts of external storage drives plugged in, it has half as much internal SD space than the VR headset does.
But will get 25 Tb of external stuff anyway like a good media machine wants.
The WiFi dongle did work, at least a bit, sometimes. So that must be a 7.4 kernel?
Seems to claim 'disconnected' quite a lot in Desktop mode. And currently Steam VR is failing on the Steam Machine in desktop mode entirely. Though it did work for a moment at lunchtime.
So. Once again, not a great start.
Its small and pretty and cubic and has no audio-jack (but the USB-c -> optical I have is fine).
#steamMachine #vr

Arguably the main purpose of the new Steam Machine really is to be the screen and keyboard on the treadmil desk.
Finally, that thing isn't running of the portable games console, and is capable of doing actual work.
Haven't spent much time with Arch or KDE before, let alone this SteamOS variant in particular.
Weird and funny that's it's username is 'deck' and it's hostname is 'steamdeck'
Half an hour at a potentially-keep-it-up-all-day sedate pace.
The work I got done is entirely just configuring this machine though 😆
Here's the bash script I now have which I can copy to a new steam machine, and maybe any Arch / KDE machine, to install Vim and set up keyboard shortcuts so you can move the windows around with ctrl-alt-J and the keys around that on the keyboard. Nine shortcuts for nine sides/corners/center.
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