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2025 is the year of Linux!
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Edit: All fine now. It was only a temporary thing.
I get a bad Gateway error. Does this link work for anyone? Or did Valve take the document down / private?
Works for me.
OH right, now it works for me too. Must be a temporary thing. Thanks for the reply, everything fine now.
Opens for me.
And with funny I mean awesome
However the details of this pan out, the timing of this news is beautiful. It’s right there alongside the headline in my feed about the Windows 11 market share going down.
And it’s not about being anti-Microsoft, it’s just that the market conditions are great for cementing Linux as an expected place to release your games. And I personally love seeing VR as part of it.
The image with a bit more pixels (hopefully)
Hopefully there are mandatory support periods.
Remember all those Google Home devices from 3rd-party partners that got updated to stay current? Remember? Remember?!?
It depends on how the program works. If SteamOS works like Android then yeah we might be cooked on the hardware support. If SteamOS works like a normal linux distro/OS we'll get more support.
In practice this is a good thing because most of the parts of SteamOS are open source, meaning that as long as you don't have a device with a locked bootloader you'd be able to run comparable OS simply using all the software that's bundled in Steam OS.
Agreed, and I would get if it was the former, projects like Bazzite will switch direction and become the LineageOS of SteamOS
What do you mean to the public? Isn't it already available for 10 years?
It's beyond me why Valve hasn't yet deleted that page or at least updated it to make it clear that it's an obsolete version that hasn't received an update in 8 years.
You're not wrong.
While I very much hope that this finally happens, I can't help but think that these labels are kinda not very clear. Too many "levels"/distinctions to make, and not enough visual queues to indicate them. But then again, I'm no graphics designer!
Finally Steam Machines?
Deckard will probably be a split unit: a lightweight headset with a small stationary unit for wireless streaming. That stationary unit will also work as a normal steam machine connected to a TV and will be on sale seperatly. (This is all speculation)
KDE is now working on releasing an atomic Arch-based distro themselves, which sounds a lot like SteamOS. I wonder how they will compare.
Steam Machines: "First time?"
For those of you who is hyped, what is that so good with SteamOS, please? Honest question.
Own a Steam Deck myself. I ran SteamOS for about two months, I think, then I finally had enough of it because I really want to install some software of my choice on it, and having some control over the machine in general. But SteamOS is putting an immutable layer on top of it somehow and reset the changes I made every time I updated it. Forgive me for I don't remember much detail.
Now I run Gentoo on it. I can still install Steam and all the games if I want, and I have full control of it.
SteamOS itself isn't what's great, what's great is the game mode that came with SteamOS. It's also available in a couple other distros, like Bazzite for example. If you aren't taking advantage of the game mode, and the Steam Input that came with it, then you're missing out on one of the best features of the Deck.
What makes it appealing imo is the immutable aspect. It makes it much harder to break which is what the average user needs. And Distrobox is now included by default which makes it possible to install whatever packages you need inside a container.
Possibly related, but I was able to download a distrobox image of SteamOS through BoxBuddy. Dunno if it's legit or what, but I was able to play games through it (though made no sense to). This was a week or two ago that I saw it on the dropdown when installing a new box.
Edit: I see other people in this thread mentioning some old steamos so maybe it's that I dunno, maybe I will check later.
Finally