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• SatyrSack@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nah, Valve would never allow it

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• gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Good joke

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• Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I bet you can get some version of BSD running

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  • dankm@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    More-or-less bog standard amd64 with amd graphics? Assuming the generic AMD video drivers work FreeBSD should be able to get to a graphical UI out of the box. Might not have controller or gyro drivers, but a keyboard and mouse should work fine.

    Now I have a project. Thanks, Droechai…

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    • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I assume this is some joke about Steam OS I’m not understanding.

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      • dankm@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        … no. I was dead serious about trying FreeBSD on the Steamdeck. FreeBSD supports almost all mainstream hardware you’d see on a normal desktop. Figured it’d be similar for the steamdeck. So now my weekend project is to try out booting FreeBSD 16 off a USB stick on my steamdeck.

        After a small amount of duckduckgoing I found that it somewhat works already. GPU hardware is detected but can’t initialize. That’s a reasonable starting point for someone like me who isn’t afraid of kernel-level code :/

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