memo@feddit.it 1 day ago
I think an important factor people seem to forget about the steam deck is that it won’t simply cease to be supported like sony or nintendo does with their consoles. If a game comes out on steam and works on linux, it’ll work on the deck. Considering the amount of people developing wonderful but lightweight games, I doubt you’ll ever think 'this platform is dead".
But also Valve will support it.
I bought one of those physical Steam Links nobody cared about. They didn’t do well and Valve ended it fairly quickly. 10 years later it still gets occasional updates from them and benefits from broader Steam Big Picture updates.
Steam Deck has been a huge success. Of course they’ll continue to support it.
Well, Valve may drop support for the firmware.
The Deck is a regular computer and you can run any OS on it.
Not having firmware updates doesn’t mean software suddenly stops working on it.
And on the flip side, I wouldn’t be surprised if software still gets updated as Valve keeps its minimum requirements as low as possible. As long as the drivers work, there isn’t a reason for different editions of the Steam Deck to run different versions.
You‘ll need a community effort to continue driver development.
Yeah, that’s called the Linux Community
No they won’t
source: literally everything Valve has ever made still works.
hugs Steam controllers
It may work, but there are software dependencies that will become end of life. The first to go will probably be the GPU drivers. In 10 years or so, Linux will discontinue the GPU drivers and you will not be able to run the latest Linux kernel.
Weird, my ten year old laptop still works.
Linux will discontinue the GPU drivers
It’ll be community-maintained at that point. If it’s worth updating and there’s demand for it, someone will bother, just like any console, and made all that much easier running open software.
I’d actually willingly bet anyone here $1500 that the Deck will be able to boot a mainline Linux kernel in 2035.
It seems there’s a lot of misunderstanding in this thread about how linux works and upstream drivers being in the kernel works. If it works it works, it will keep working.
Valve can stop develop wtv they want and it won’t change a thing.
That’s no guarantee. It‘s naïve.
Microsoft is generally far more savage about dropped OS support than Linux. The latter undergoes fewer forced overhauls.
Steam stopped working on Windows 7
You’re trolling, right?
Sure, but since Valve makes their money back via game sales instead of hardware like other OEMs, I find that they have a much bigger incentive in keeping the firmware update to date than let’s say AYANEO or even ASUS.
Yes but thinking a piece of hardware will receive support for eternity is naive.
The entire point was that you don’t have to rely on vendor support. With proprietary consoles, unless someone hacks it, you won’t get any support when the vendor drops support.
Bro it’s fucking Linux based. Did you not think before speaking?
I wrote and didn’t speak, did you think? The drivers will need maintenance.
The drivers will need maintenance. And guess what the Linux Community is known for?
PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And if you buy a game on PC, it doesn’t stop being playable in a generation or two like consoles.
Soup@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Speaking of consoles, if you buy a game for PC boom, it’s also on your Steam Deck.
PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I pretty much always consider games through the lens of my Steam Deck. If it’s a cross-platform game that would run well on the Deck, then I get it for the Deck.
And this is primarily because I can freely install those games to other PCs. If my Nintendo Switch were to get destroyed, then I lose my games with it (outside of emulation, of course). I don’t want games being so temporary. I still play games that are nearing 50 years old!