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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

For those of you who is hyped, what is that so good with SteamOS, please? Honest question.

Own a Steam Deck myself. I ran SteamOS for about two months, I think, then I finally had enough of it because I really want to install some software of my choice on it, and having some control over the machine in general. But SteamOS is putting an immutable layer on top of it somehow and reset the changes I made every time I updated it. Forgive me for I don't remember much detail.

Now I run Gentoo on it. I can still install Steam and all the games if I want, and I have full control of it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

SteamOS itself isn't what's great, what's great is the game mode that came with SteamOS. It's also available in a couple other distros, like Bazzite for example. If you aren't taking advantage of the game mode, and the Steam Input that came with it, then you're missing out on one of the best features of the Deck.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You seem to be comparing it to other Linux distros. The success is that it's not Windows, can still run pretty much all the games, and lowers the hardware requirement.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

What makes it appealing imo is the immutable aspect. It makes it much harder to break which is what the average user needs. And Distrobox is now included by default which makes it possible to install whatever packages you need inside a container.