--- title: Someone merged SteamOS with NixOS, and the result is the... description: Jovian NixOS is a community-driven Linux distribution that layers Valve's SteamOS components on top of NixOS. It delivers a Steam Deck-like console gaming... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/someone-merged-steamos-with-nixos-and-the-result-is-the-strangest-linux-distro-i-ve-ever-loved-0srcr9fis twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Someone merged SteamOS with NixOS, and the result is the strangest Linux distro I've ever loved | daily.dev og:description: Jovian NixOS is a community-driven Linux distribution that layers Valve's SteamOS components on top of NixOS. It delivers a Steam Deck-like console gaming... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/someone-merged-steamos-with-nixos-and-the-result-is-the-strangest-linux-distro-i-ve-ever-loved-0srcr9fis og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/0SrcR9fis.png og:image:alt: Someone merged SteamOS with NixOS, and the result is the strangest Linux distro I've ever loved 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. # Someone merged SteamOS with NixOS, and the result is the strangest Linux distro I've ever loved **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Jovian NixOS is a community-driven Linux distribution that layers Valve's SteamOS components on top of NixOS. It delivers a Steam Deck-like console gaming experience — including Gamescope, controller support, and firmware handling — while retaining NixOS's declarative configuration model. Instead of incremental updates, the system builds new generations per change, enabling easy rollbacks. AMD hardware gets close to native SteamOS quality; NVIDIA support is less polished. Users can selectively enable only the components they need, from gamescope integration to full auto-login session management. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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