• twinnie@feddit.uk
    16·
    3 months ago

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

    • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
      31·
      3 months ago

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

      • Neshura@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
        32·
        3 months ago

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

        • icogniito@lemmy.zipEnglish
          9·
          3 months ago

          That is not why it failed.

          It failed because the market of Linux native games was minimal and at that time compatibility tools like proton didn’t exist and wine was nowhere near sophisticated enough and required too much fiddling to get to work, especially for the layman which steamos very much was and is targeted towards.

            • icogniito@lemmy.zipEnglish
              4·
              3 months ago

              Being based on Debian is not one of them, and any others are honestly made irrelevant by the gave that a gaming centric OS couldn’t run 99% of the games out there

    • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzOPMEnglish
      9·
      3 months 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.

    • DannyBoy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      SteamOS 2 came out almost 10 years ago (!) with the release of Steam Machines in 2015. 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.

    • pogodem0n@lemmy.world
      31·
      3 months 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.

      • woelkchen@lemmy.world
        11·
        3 months 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.