Valve discontinued the Steam Link hardware device in November 2018, in favor of supporting its software-based Steam Link application for mobile devices and smart televisions, as well as providing Steam Link as a software package for the Raspberry Pi microcomputer. Steam Link was originally released as a hardware device alongside the debut of Steam Machines in November 2015. I think it has to do with Gamescope which is a great technology from what I've read into.Steam Link is a hardware and software product developed by Valve Corporation for streaming Steam content from a personal computer or Steam Machine wirelessly to a mobile device or other monitor. I have no idea when they might make the app run like normal but the steamlink app I believe runs it's own compositor which is the reason it can't run in X11 which makes sense. It's way better than the steamlink app was before which is great! It basically just used to be Steam Big Picture which was fine but not quite as sharp as this new hotness. I believe the interface is straight up from the Steam Deck because it's referenced a lot but it's not big deal. Still in the TT2, I ran steamlink to start it up because I know, just like regular Steam, it starts up and has to pull extra packages to do it's thing so let it install all those extra packages and it will ask you to press enter at a few places to continue on.Įventually in the TT2 it will startup Steam all fancy like. Logged in again in the TTY2 and ran sudo apt install steamlink and installed everything the package initially pulls in. I run the video output to my TV with HDMI from the mini port. So as of 1/10/22 it was a fully updated, pretty vanilla install with just PiHole running and an install of Home Assistant in a Docker container which I hadn't really messed much with to be honest. I ran a casual sudo apt update & sudo apt full-upgrade "I'm running the Raspberry Pi OS Full 64bit Desktop version with Debian Bullseye (I referenced this guide from Ian which below is just how it went for me.) I did a summarized writeup of what worked for me, I am running the full desktop 64bit but it should still work because the issue isn't that it's 64 bit: