Linux Gaming

16057 readers

67 users here now

Gaming on the GNU/Linux operating system.

Recommended news sources:

Related chat:

Related Communities:

Please be nice to other members. Anyone not being nice will be banned. Keep it fun, respectful and just be awesome to each other.

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

698

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

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

65 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hopefully there are mandatory support periods.

Remember all those Google Home devices from 3rd-party partners that got updated to stay current? Remember? Remember?!?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It depends on how the program works. If SteamOS works like Android then yeah we might be cooked on the hardware support. If SteamOS works like a normal linux distro/OS we'll get more support.

In practice this is a good thing because most of the parts of SteamOS are open source, meaning that as long as you don't have a device with a locked bootloader you'd be able to run comparable OS simply using all the software that's bundled in Steam OS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Agreed, and I would get if it was the former, projects like Bazzite will switch direction and become the LineageOS of SteamOS