Good, I believe that SteamOS has the ability to bring Linux to the masses, but we don’t need a repeat of last time.
Valve tried selling Linux boxes for gaming back in 2013, but noone wanted to sell/make/buy them b/c the library wasn't there and it's a hard sell when Windows is already baked into OEM hardware pricing anyways (so it wasn't any cheaper to buy a pre-made Steam Machine than it was a similar-spec windows box).
As someone who doesn't have or tried steamos, is there a reason to choose it over existing distros? Is anyone here running it on their pc?
Mainly that it's specifically calibrated for running games on Linux. I've tried the Steam Deck and it works pretty damn well out the box, compared to any other distros, so a PC version would be cool.
What I really appreciate is that it's geared toward handhelds, but has a decent desktop experience and is powerful enough to be a nice mobile media/piracy box with a remote and a USB-C breakout dongle. You don't even need to change the read-only filesystem if you use WireGuard VPN (this might take some legwork to generate the .conf files you need, depends on VPN provider) and a streaming/torrenting program that comes in flatpak.
EDIT: Also forgot, you can add a custom shortcut to your Steam Library and have (some) programs launch from the SteamOS frontend rather than desktop.
Aside from native proton, being able to do everything (easily) from the controller. It's amazing how often you still need a mouse, or just the windows key, in windows :(
Such good news. I hope someone can answer this either theoretically or practically as I’m not as knowledgeable in this.
One of the things I love about the steam deck is the ability to just turn it off and back on a few days later and the game is exactly where I left off. If steamOS is on a PC or another handheld deck. Would it still be possible to still have this feature? I guess my question is whether this is a software or hardware feature.
I'd imagine this is something the HW has to support, and the software has to implement a solution via that HW support. I'm really excited to see SteamOS coming up as the next mobile linux platform. With the support from Valve, I'd consider a steam deck or similar over other tablet options.
I'm using HoloISO (it's like 95% SteamOS) on a mini PC (all AMD, 680M iGPU because I wanted to get close to the deck specs). I mostly stream games from elsewhere in the house, but it has a few titles installed locally.
The sleep works perfectly so far for local titles. I assume other Arch based distros with all of the steam software installed (like ChimeraOS) work just as well. If the hardware maker who puts it on their box makes sure their hardware is well supported it shouldn't be an issue.
I'm glad to hear they're still working on it, they are one of the few companies I would actually trust to follow through with what they're saying. It is in their best interest to deliver it so I'm sure they will.
I don't care for other platform support from the money I spent on steam. I prefer to get some discount instead
No thanks, I'm not replacing proprietary bullshit with more proprietary bullshit
