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Full fledged SteamOS desktop release when?

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What would an official steamOS desktop do that bazzite can’t? Unless you need commercial support because you are selling steam machines I don’t see how a official release would be of advantage.

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I think there’s just people that trust Valve more than Linux in general.

SteamOS on the deck is extremely foolproof, and people who are otherwise scared of Linux seem to think SteamOS magically fixes every perceived issue with desktop Linux.

That’s my best guess but I’m just some dude.

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Sounds like a good guess. I would use it just because I’m already familiar with it.

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Desktop mode is kind of funky, though. You need to open steam to type on the on-screen keyboard, lol. App store got patched and it’s better, but sometimes the apps get stuck downloading and I need to open up the command line to make them install

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4 points

It could be more convenient for people

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Cause no one has heard of bazzite

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I don’t really understand what this means. Can you explain the implications?

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28 points

They mean when will Valve release an official Steam OS 3 ISO that we can install on our own PCs.

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Isn’t Steam OS currently built on Arch?

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For the implications, I believe it would create a first class commercial level competition for Windows. It would open the door for a vendor trusted platform that implemented all the anti-cheat technologies. Paving the way to lift the virtual Linux ban on first day AAA games compatibility.

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This is what I was getting at. Sure, most games can be run with Proton fine and well, but if anti-cheat is code for “run Windows or else”, a lot of games are just unplayable, forcing gamers to at least dual boot with Windows.

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Full fledged SteamOS desktop release when?

Maybe never. If I was at Valve, I would not want to open Pandora’s box of NVidia drivers.

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NVidia drivers

Goddamn it why did you have to remind me of that :/

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Who says they have to?

Lol, fuck nvidia.

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Who says they have to?

The people demanding a full fledged SteamOS desktop release. It’s not full fledged when they’d ignore 80% of desktop GPUs.

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This would make a lot of sense if valve plan on releasing new iteration of their handheld.

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This would make a lot of sense if valve plan on releasing new iteration of their handheld.

It makes more sense that for the immediate future this is for ARM Chromebooks. Steam for Chromebooks currently only works with x86 CPUs. For the longer term, all kinds of options open up because of this, of course.

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Git hype for Crysis running on the rpi 5!

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git: 'hype' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

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Ah fuck, forgot

apk add git-hype

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apt: E: Invalid operation add

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ANDROID??? can we play Triple AAA games on android that would be soo fire

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ANDROID??? can we play Triple AAA games on android that would be soo fire

You have it the wrong way around. It’s about Android games on SteamOS. Oculus/Quest runs a variant of Android, it just makes sense to have a Proton-style porting aid for Quest games on SteamOS.

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oh

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4 points

You may want to look into Winlator

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I have a exynos cpu and I remember winlator only worked on snapdragon

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Yeah pretty accurate

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Been waiting for them to get into mobile gaming. Hopefully they’ll force their mobile storefront to be less predatory. Maybe they’ve been waiting for when they could get a mobile/android game sold on their store to be playable on every other device, like how you expect with your purchases right now.

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x86 emulation on ARM is likely foremost about expanding Chromebook support as currently only x86 Chromebooks can use Steam. Android emulation is probably about getting Oculus/Quest games on the in-development stand-alone VR headset.

Nothing points to Steam games on mobile phones.

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HOW DARE YOU!!
MY DESIRE FOR ANDROID SUPPORT FOR ALL 🐧SUPPORTED STEAM GAMES MEANS THEY’RE LOOKING AT ARM CHIP SUPPORT SPECIFICALLY TO SATISFY MY DESIRE TO PLAY 1 SPECIFIC GAME ON MY PHONE BECAUSE IT’S REALLY FUCKIN GOOD, AND IT’S A REAL BIG FAFF TO HAUL MY GODDAMN LAPTOP EVERYWHERE WITH ME, AND IF I WANNA PUT A FEW MINUTES INTO IT RANDOMLY DURING A SLOW BIT AT WORK, IT ALWAYS GETS ME TOLD OFF FOR HAVING MY LAPTOP ON THE SCAFFOLD!

That said… you’re probably right…

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SUPPORTED STEAM GAMES MEANS THEY’RE LOOKING AT ARM CHIP SUPPORT SPECIFICALLY TO SATISFY MY DESIRE TO PLAY 1 SPECIFIC GAME ON MY PHONE BECAUSE IT’S REALLY FUCKIN GOOD

In all seriousness, there is a decent chance that as a byproduct, Steam on “regular” ARM Linux will run as well, meaning even stuff like RaspberryPi and PinePhone.

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