Even though I used to have a partition with [[NixOS]] in [[My Desktop PC|my desktop PC]], in late 2025 I started noticing that I was not really using it anymore as a PC. That, mixed with the frustration that [[Windows]] was inducing, made me start a journey to strip everything (or at the very least, hide it) from that machine and turn it into a complete overkill of a gaming console. This is the collection of hacks that made it possible. ## Booting into [[Steam]] Big Picture I really like the [[Steam]] Big Picture interface, and my ideal use case was booting up the PC and automatically enter in it, being able to handle it with my controller. That would al