Looks like Valve is preparing to release SteamOS to the public (or at least to third-party hardware manufacturers)

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• troyunrau@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Good for gaming, good for linux, good for a lot of the other open source projects involved. It’s so close to being critical mass :)

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• steal_your_face@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The image on the tweet with a few more pixels

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• twinnie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m out of the loop and I don’t own a deck but didn’t Valve have a Linux OS years ago?

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  • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They silently switched from Debian to Arch under the hood for the Deck and never released it to the public for download.

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  • amelore@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They didn’t maintain it, let it die, and made a new one.

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    • neshura@bookwormstory.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      tbf back then they picked possibly the worst base for a gaming distro, a problem that has been remedied with the new SteamOS

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  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    As someone else mentioned, that one was based on a different distribution of Linux, and had a lot of differences in function/setup to the current version of SteamOS on the steam deck. The steam deck’s version is steam deck exclusive right now, and people have to use other options like Bazzite and HoloOS if they want a Steam Deck-like experience on another device.

    This implies that Valve is finally ready to let other vendors use SteamOS, which is great news.

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  • DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    SteamOS 2 came out almost 10 years ago (!) with the release of Steam Machines. That one was public but it seems Valve has pulled the links to download it. SteamOS 3 is what is on the Steamdeck which isn’t publicly available yet.

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  • pogodem0n@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    While SteamOS is open-source and everyone can build one for themselves, it is only officially supported on Steam Deck. They promised to release a generic version of it targeting more devices in the past, and this post hints that that day is closer.

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They promised to release a generic version of it targeting more devices in the past, and this post hints that that day is closer.

      This post says that Valve is talking about hardware by Valve partners with SteamOS developed in collaboration with these partners. It says nothing about it being generic.

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• AlexisFR@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  So, Steam Machines could be back?

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  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There’s definitely plans to bring SteamOS to more handhelds, we’ve seen partial support for the ROG Ally being added over some recent patch notes for example. This may just be for other handhelds for right now.

    On the other hand, we just recently started getting links on the new Steam Controller. That could just be a Steam Deck accessory, but maybe Valve is planning on trying Steam Machines again.

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• _____@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I didn’t do any reading because I’m a bastard but I hope it is Linux or nix like at the very least

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  • DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s a modified version of Arch Linux.

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  • secret300@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Have you seen what valve has been doing over the past like 13 years. Of course it’s going to be Linux.

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  • Blisterexe@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    people got pissed at your comment because you spent a few seconds making a comment when you could have googled it instead

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  • asudox@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Linux or nix?

    Do you know the difference between them?

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    • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Before nix was used as the name of a dependency manager and linux distribution it was used to describe unix style operating systems.

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    • _____@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      typo

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• merthyr1831@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This isn’t big news IMO. SteamOS has been planned for a “hardware agnostic” release with a proper installer for a while now. Makes sense they’d add some graphics to market devices with.

  That being said, it would be nice if it’s truly a precursor to some new handhelds supporting SteamOS as first party options; more Devs and more users on Linux is a great thing. But I wouldn’t take this as a sign of anything certain yet

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• Mwa@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yooo Steam Machines 2???
  And also it makes sense releasing it to other manufacturers, due to Linux kernel being GPL.

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