Honestly, what would you get out of SteamOS anyway? Just install Linux, set up the drivers you need, launch Steam at startup, and default it to Big Picture Mode.
Boom, SteamOS.
Hominine@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The temerity to repeat ‘soon’ for well over a year is one of Valve’s worst traits. One wonders if reflexively lying to customers is baked into their culture.
Telorand@reddthat.com 7 months ago
bioemerl@kbin.social 7 months ago
Steam OS is a lot more powerful than big picture
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
In what way?
My desktop with endeavour OS and SteamDeck can do all the same things… In fact doing some things is more tricky because it’s limited to installing flatpaks.
bioemerl@kbin.social 7 months ago
In fact doing some things on the deck is more tricky because it’s limited to installing flatpaks.
That's the advantage. A PC with a layer on top is a PC with a layer on top. It still wants you to have a mouse and keyboard. You still have to update it like a normal desktop PC.
Steam OS is controller and controller only. It's a no bullshit durable system designed to be put on a box and just leave it that way.
You can do the same things, but I'm not putting a norma lLinux box running steam under my TV.
Telorand@reddthat.com 7 months ago
Right, and I never said it was only Big Picture. What can it do that Linux + Big Picture can’t?
IronSage@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Its a fair take, but the “game mode” where the is is running gamescope allows valve to do some magic that’s not super possible with the current big picture
mykneedoesnthurt@kbin.social 7 months ago
Does it have more oomph? More chutzpah? More mileage? More HP? More pep in its step? More ability to go the distance? More firepower? More brass? More boldness? More flavor?
bioemerl@kbin.social 7 months ago
Yes
helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 months ago
I dunno but I tried that and it didn’t work at all. Had to go searching around online for how to even install a damn game. Then when I launched it, the game started running at like 2FPS.
The same game runs on the same PC on Windows at 144FPS.
And that’s the story of the time I tried to game on Linux.
Gabagoolzoo@kbin.social 7 months ago
Installing games is same as Windows, download and launch via Steam. As for lack of FPS, willing to bet you had an Nvidia card but didn't install the drivers for it.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 months ago
Installing games is same as Windows
So it sounds a lot like you’ve never actually done this before because that’s factually incorrect.
As for lack of FPS, willing to bet you had an Nvidia card but didn’t install the drivers for it.
Wrong again.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I dunno but I tried that and it didn’t work at all. Had to go searching around online for how to even install a damn game.
Just for shits and giggles I fired up a VM and did a clean Steam installation from Flathub. This is the default:
Steam Play (=Proton) is on for supported Windows games. For unsupported games it’s off.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Had to go searching around online for how to even install a damn game.
Wait, you had so much trouble to look if the “Enable Steam Play” checkbox was ticked? 🙄
helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 months ago
Yet another person missing the point 🤦
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
I think Valve has good intentions and wants a lot of things done soon, but they just don’t have enough people on their Steam Deck team to get things done at the speed they want.
Tau@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Yeah, and that’s probably why development for 3.5 has also been this slow. They were busy with the OLED model
Hominine@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Your guess has the right feel for me too. A lot of people were hungry for OLED and this is the trade off.
I’m just ready for Linux to grow. Maybe it is naive to think that one distro will carry us much further but with the proper solution I can easily imagine a lot of people dual booting their PCs soon.