{"id":238959,"date":"2026-05-04T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/playstation-5-linux-tested-steam-pc-vs-native-ps5-games\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T11:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:25:08","slug":"playstation-5-linux-tested-steam-pc-vs-native-ps5-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/playstation-5-linux-tested-steam-pc-vs-native-ps5-games\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation 5 Linux Tested: Steam PC vs Native PS5 Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalfoundry.net\/news\/2026\/05\/playstation-5-linux-tested-steam-pc-vs-native-ps5-games\">PlayStation 5 Linux Tested: Steam PC vs Native PS5 Games<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalfoundry.net\/news\/2026\/05\/playstation-5-linux-tested-steam-pc-vs-native-ps5-games\">https:\/\/www.digitalfoundry.net\/news\/2026\/05\/playstation-5-linux-tested-steam-pc-vs-native-ps5-games<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-04 11:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.digitalfoundry.net\">www.digitalfoundry.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, Linux launched on PlayStation 5, bringing with it the wealth of opportunities afforded by an open operating system running on a closed platform. Put together by well known security researcher Andy Nguyen &#8211; aka TheFlow &#8211; PS5 Linux works via an existing exploit for launch PlayStation 5 consoles running on system software releases up to version 4.5. Prepare the appropriate Linux image, launch the PS5 exploit, then use a computer to send across the correct payload and the PlayStation 5 slips into rest mode. On waking, Linux boots from an attached USB or SSD and you&#8217;re good to go.<\/p>\n<p>A few steps further and Linux can be moved to an SSD that sits in the PlayStation 5&#8217;s m.2 bay, vastly accelerating storage speeds vs the USB alternative &#8211; though a USB stick is still required to boot the OS. Beyond that, you have full access to the Linux desktop, specifically running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Around 15GB of useable memory is available, with the user able to access all eight cores and 16 threads of the Zen 2 processor cluster. The full 36 compute unit GPU is also available. From boot, CPU clocks run at 3.2GHz with the GPU at 2.0GHz. Running an optional tool engages PS5&#8217;s boost mode with CPU frequencies at 3.5GHz, with the GPU hitting system spec 2.23GHz. The tool also allows you to increase cooling to compensate.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth pointing out that while those two paragraphs make the process of running Linux on PS5 sound quite simple, it&#8217;s far more complex if you&#8217;re not au fait with Linux generally &#8211; and I count myself amongst that crowd. It should also go without saying that actually finding a PlayStation 5 on a low enough firmware is challenging too. Firmware 4.5 launched in December 2021 and TheFlow has no plans to bring PS5 Linux support to any other system software updates. I paid \u00a3520 for an untouched firmware 2.0 unit from eBay, which is far below the usual asking price. My unit currently sits on firmware 4.03 &#8211; which is when Sony introduced support for the m.2&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalfoundry.net\/news\/2026\/05\/playstation-5-linux-tested-steam-pc-vs-native-ps5-games\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PlayStation 5 Linux Tested: Steam PC vs Native PS5 Games https:\/\/www.digitalfoundry.net\/news\/2026\/05\/playstation-5-linux-tested-steam-pc-vs-native-ps5-games Publish Date: 2026-05-04 11:00:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.digitalfoundry.net\/d27dacc2db621\/large.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[31,71,57,79],"class_list":["post-238959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-exploit","tag-linux","tag-security","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238961,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238959\/revisions\/238961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}