I hope so, but I’m scared to get my hopes up.
Luci@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Is this a hint at a wider SteamOS release???
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
monkeyman512@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I would be inclined to think Valve doesn’t want the responsibility of making it a “broad” OS. More likely is there are other open source communities that are taking that on and Valve is willing to work with. Much like we have Debian -> Ubuntu -> PopOS.
Railcar8095@lemm.ee 2 months ago
They already said SteamOS will be made available for OEMs and general users, they want to polish it before
monkeyman512@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Was that in what was shared above and I missed it or was that said somewhere else? Could you share that if it is easily available?
Railcar8095@lemm.ee 2 months ago
www.pcgamer.com/steamos-on-handheld-pcs/
This is from an old interview, but I haven’t seen them retract
Luci@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
No, they said it would be released. You can release a FOSS project without an installer or hardware support. But the change doc here mentions the ROG Ally directly soooooo…
Your example isn’t great btw, all three of those distros are “broad” OSes that run almost everywhere, each being built on top of the other like an idiotic house of FOSS cards. If PopOS runs on it, Debian runs on it. If Debian runs on it, PopOS might not run on it without changing DEs.
monkeyman512@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The point was simply that Debian is not responsible for Ubuntu or PopOS, but they can still interact cooperatively. Downstream benefits from the work Upstream does and downstream can contribute upstream so everyone benefits.
ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
If I’m not mistaken Valve said they want to release it for desktops
averyminya@beehaw.org 2 months ago
A long time ago but they did. I’ve been interested for a while