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Good for gaming, good for linux, good for a lot of the other open source projects involved. It’s so close to being critical mass :)
Still waiting for official steamOS 3.x generic installer.
I remember reading like a year ago that they wanted to get it on other handheld devices first (which this post looks to cover), so don’t hold your breath but hopefully it’s a step closer
They promised a generic release (no date) when steam deck was first revealed lol. Typical valve time but I know they’ll deliver a decent starting experience. They’ve leaned a lot and improved the steam deck software a lot too.
“Late is for a while suck is forever”
Hopefully getting some OEMs on board (that want SteamOS on their handhelds) makes it easier to maintain - I’m sure that’s what they’re kind of hoping for before releasing a general release.
I bet the reason we don’t have it yet starts with N and ends with Vidia
I’ve been feeling for a while now that Nvidia’s more recent approaches to open source drivers has been encouraged by their background talks with Valve, getting pressured by such a wildly successful new device.
I really don’t understand why people even want that when great alternatives like Bazzite exist.
I don’t even run SteamOS on my Deck anymore, so I can’t imagine running it on another PC.
I’m out of the loop and I don’t own a deck but didn’t Valve have a Linux OS years ago?
They silently switched from Debian to Arch under the hood for the Deck and never released it to the public for download.
They didn’t maintain it, let it die, and made a new one.
tbf back then they picked possibly the worst base for a gaming distro, a problem that has been remedied with the new SteamOS
tbf back then they picked possibly the worst base for a gaming distro, a problem that has been remedied with the new SteamOS
The actual runtime the games run on is still based on Debian, though.
As someone else mentioned, that one was based on a different distribution of Linux, and had a lot of differences in function/setup to the current version of SteamOS on the steam deck. The steam deck’s version is steam deck exclusive right now, and people have to use other options like Bazzite and HoloOS if they want a Steam Deck-like experience on another device.
This implies that Valve is finally ready to let other vendors use SteamOS, which is great news.
SteamOS 2 came out almost 10 years ago (!) with the release of Steam Machines in 2015. That one was public but it seems Valve has pulled the links to download it. SteamOS 3 is what is on the Steamdeck which isn’t publicly available yet.
While SteamOS is open-source and everyone can build one for themselves, it is only officially supported on Steam Deck. They promised to release a generic version of it targeting more devices in the past, and this post hints that that day is closer.
The image on the tweet with a few more pixels
So, Steam Machines could be back?
There’s definitely plans to bring SteamOS to more handhelds, we’ve seen partial support for the ROG Ally being added over some recent patch notes for example. This may just be for other handhelds for right now.
On the other hand, we just recently started getting links on the new Steam Controller. That could just be a Steam Deck accessory, but maybe Valve is planning on trying Steam Machines again.
I didn’t do any reading because I’m a bastard but I hope it is Linux or unix like at the very least
edit: damn I kinda wish I knew what it is in this message that really pisses people off
It’s a modified version of Arch Linux.
people got pissed at your comment because you spent a few seconds making a comment when you could have googled it instead
Linux or nix?
Do you know the difference between them?
Before nix was used as the name of a dependency manager and linux distribution it was used to describe unix style operating systems.
You’re thinking of *nix.
typo
Have you seen what valve has been doing over the past like 13 years. Of course it’s going to be Linux.
