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[twilo99]

Andy Nguyen (@theflow0)

I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine. Running GTA 5 Enhanced with Ray Tracing. 🤯

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Running some Steam games apparently.

Is this a console or a PC???

 

[Unknown?]

If hackers hadn't ruined things we'd still have official Linux on PS3/4/5.

 

[poppabk]

Wouldn't the PS5 have to have been hacked to do this? Wouldn't that be the bigger news?

 

[saintjules]

Why does this matter exactly? And why does he have the PS5 upside down?

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Is this

Hardware  Thread 'PS5 turned into Linux Steam Machine, but only on older unpatched firmware'

Mar 6, 2026

Andy Nguyen, known online as theflow0, has shown Linux running on a PlayStation 5 and used it to turn the console into what he describes as a Steam Machine. His clip shows Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced running with ray tracing at 1440p and 60 FPS, which is enough to move this project beyond a simple boot demo.

Andy said 4K HDMI video and audio are working, and all USB ports are functional. He also said his current setup runs at 3.2 GHz on the CPU and 2.0 GHz on the GPU, while a higher 3.5 GHz and 2.23 GHz configuration is possible, though his PS5 Slim reportedly overheats too...​

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[Hudo]

I mean, PS5 runs on BSD (FreeBSD kernel fork, I believe), which is a Unix system. Arguably even more so than Linux.