Possibly related, but I was able to download a distrobox image of SteamOS through BoxBuddy. Dunno if it’s legit or what, but I was able to play games through it (though made no sense to). This was a week or two ago that I saw it on the dropdown when installing a new box.
Edit: I see other people in this thread mentioning some old steamos so maybe it’s that I dunno, maybe I will check later.
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I get a bad Gateway error. Does this link work for anyone? Or did Valve take the document down / private?
Works for me.
OH right, now it works for me too. Must be a temporary thing. Thanks for the reply, everything fine now.
(I’m a real sicko)
shits about to get real
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.
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.
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.
You seem to be comparing it to other Linux distros. The success is that it’s not Windows (but can still run pretty much all the games).
If this takes off the Xbox handheld will be DOA and Microsoft once again looses a very lucrative market due to pure incompetence.
KDE is now working on releasing an atomic Arch-based distro themselves, which sounds a lot like SteamOS. I wonder how they will compare.
The image with a bit more pixels (hopefully)
Significantly better thank you!
what’s a steamo and how is it used to power things?
Not sure if that’s a joke about a since-corrected typo or if you’re serious.
Just in case serious, it’s the Linux-based operating system that runs on the Steam Deck, and soon to be related devices. So, Linux modified to work better for gaming, especially with Steam.
i wasn’t trying to poke fun at any typo, i was just trying to make light of the logo looking like it says “STEAMOS”. but i appreciate you taking the time to give an earnest response :)
Oh as if “steamos” is the plural of “steamo”? I think the plural of “steamo” would be “steamoes.”
I legitimately didn’t know what the steam OS was, so thanks. I was very curious about something that has very little to do with my interests, but I like playing games have always been curious about the steamdeck
Looking forward to swapping bazzite with steamos on my ally x
And with funny I mean awesome
In close collaboration with Valve
Sounds to me like they will open it to other manufacturers, but this could mean that they are releasing it publicly also. I’m excited!
Steam Inside.
Steam Machines?
Deckard will probably be a split unit: a lightweight headset with a small stationary unit for wireless streaming. That stationary unit will also work as a normal steam machine connected to a TV and will be on sale seperatly. (This is all speculation)
This sounds great, if the streaming to the headset is lossless. And the streaming isn’t a huge drain on the battery. (High bandwidth super low latency streaming is usually a strain on batteries).
All of the high quality wireless adapters for things like the Vive and Index have gotten hot, too.
If it’s just h.265 streaming… fuck that. Dark scenes always look like shit.
So far every streaming option for Oculus Quests have the option to choose h264 or h265, and now AV1, and I assume eventually h266. Lossless if using USB-C.
Hopefully there are mandatory support periods.
Remember all those Google Home devices from 3rd-party partners that got updated to stay current? Remember? Remember?!?
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.
Agreed, and I would get if it was the former, projects like Bazzite will switch direction and become the LineageOS of SteamOS
