--- title: How I forked SteamOS for my living room PC — iliana.fyi description: The author describes how they forked SteamOS for their living room PC, exploring the update system and making changes to the root filesystem. canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-forked-steamos-for-my-living-room-pc-iliana-fyi-qpythqlro twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How I forked SteamOS for my living room PC — iliana.fyi | daily.dev og:description: The author describes how they forked SteamOS for their living room PC, exploring the update system and making changes to the root filesystem. og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-forked-steamos-for-my-living-room-pc-iliana-fyi-qpythqlro og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/QPYTHqLRO.png og:image:alt: How I forked SteamOS for my living room PC — iliana.fyi og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How I forked SteamOS for my living room PC — iliana.fyi **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 15 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The author describes how they forked SteamOS for their living room PC, exploring the update system and making changes to the root filesystem. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#steamos](https://daily.dev/tags/steamos) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-forked-steamos-for-my-living-room-pc-iliana-fyi-qpythqlro) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How I forked SteamOS for my living room PC — iliana.fyi","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-forked-steamos-for-my-living-room-pc-iliana-fyi-qpythqlro","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-forked-steamos-for-my-living-room-pc-iliana-fyi-qpythqlro"},"datePublished":"2023-12-31T17:48:12.193Z","dateModified":"2026-06-18T02:15:16.367Z","description":"The author describes how they forked SteamOS for their living room PC, exploring the update system and making changes to the root filesystem.","image":"https://iliana.fyi/netscape.gif","thumbnailUrl":"https://iliana.fyi/netscape.gif","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-forked-steamos-for-my-living-room-pc-iliana-fyi-qpythqlro","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"linux,steamos","timeRequired":"PT15M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"How I forked SteamOS for my living room PC — iliana.fyi"}]} ```