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SteamOS could see a general distribution release, work with other handheld gaming PCs soon (www.techspot.com)
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[–] [email protected] 89 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

This would be huge and a big step to single purchase ownership.

One of my biggest griped with the modern state of gaming is how purchases are platform based.

Minecraft pe doesn’t transfer between ios and android yet on pc all my games work on linux the same as windows.

Once we have the power to load the OS where we have acces to our library publishers will rush to make sure their platform gets that access.

Valve really appears as the woke gaming authority that single handed progresses the industry. Someone link a source if that perception is wrong.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Valve really appears as the woke gaming authority that single handed progresses the industry

Nah, they just have a software platform instead of hardware one

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

The ideal platform will be hardware agnostic

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It would need to be open-source and using only open APIs when talking to the system. This isn't happening any time soon

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

Isn't that just OpenGL/Vulcan and Linux?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

It would need to be open-source and using only open APIs when talking to the system. This isn’t happening any time soon

You're describing Java which is open source since 2007.

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

Since you're talking about ownership, remember that most "purchases" via Steam have DRM in them. If you really want to own your library then purchase from GoG and have your games downloaded to an external harddrive. You can easily access your GoG library via Heroic on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I already am accessing gog on Linux trough heroic but I archpriciate the mention for others.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

That's up to the game developers, not Steam. Many games on Steam don't have any DRM, you can copy the files anywhere you want and just start the exe without Steam even being installed.

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

I bought Minecraft on pc, downloaded an apk, logged in with my Microsoft account, and I can play on online servers. Seems like it can be shared, but Microsoft doesn't want you to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Mknecraft pocket edition doesnt even need the microsoft account you connect it to to have minecraft installed

The only protection minecraft bedrock has against privacy is if it cant detect if the game was bought from the play store(at least on android, i dont know about java)

You can also find a pirated version of minecraft on the play store (the exact same game, works even in multiplayer, the only difference is that it comes with a texture pack that you can remove)

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They did promise that like 3 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

3?!? Geez my perception of time is so skewed

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

3?

Half Life 3 confirmed.

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

Take your pills, pilot

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Or Portal 3. I'd be down for either.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Not sure there was ever a "formal" announcement/promise, but yeah, this was mentioned as being the plan since before the Steam Deck was even released. People were expecting a general SteamOS ISO to be available on launch day.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

it will probably be good for handheld manufacturers to have a reliable alternative to windows but for end user bazzite is already better

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Even on Steam Deck itself?

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

I use bazzite on steam deck. The only kinda irritating thing is the game mode update changelog displays the steamos notes and not bazzite notes. It will be 99% the same for basic users and not worth switching for anyone not needing the additional nerd functionality. If it's a new installation regardless on a handheld computer then bazzite for sure especially because bazzite already accounts for many deck alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The only kinda irritating thing is the game mode update changelog displays the steamos notes and not bazzite notes

And you have to do a Bazzite update to make it go away, which is slightly annoying. I'm not sure if you can do it from the Steam UI either, although I can always SSH in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I cannot for the life of me get bazzite to use the Nvidia gpu in my laptop for shit. Like proper 3d games refuse to launch and simpler 2d games run but at like 4fps. The icon in the system tray for gpu selection/info won't let me select dgpu, only integrated and hybrid. Gpu basically never gets touched. I'm sure it's less of a bazzite issue and more of an Nvidia drivers on Linux issue, but can't really test full functionality of bazzite like this.

And that's with the Asus laptop Nvidia gpu specific image of bazzite. Very disappointed because I otherwise love bazzite. I have been keeping the windows drive in the laptop specifically for gaming until I can figure out how to fix this. I wish there were more laptop options with amd dGPUs... Looked at microcenter today and there was only one option. :(

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

My nvidia card works but is quite old and of little use. Nvidia is traditionally bad on linux and from what I can gather seems like is still hit or miss on normal distros, let alone atomic/immutable distros like bazzite. I would imagine the steam os release will be troublesome for nvidia users too but maybe valve has some more magic tricks to pull.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

Hopefully it’s for real this time. This is gonna be great!

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

Still never buying anything from Asus again. They can burn to hell for all I care.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

I'd love to see it for sure

I keep hearing good things about it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Hopefully there's some level of encryption possible.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or just use Bazzite. Already supports multiple handhelds, desktop, and you can have the same exact experience of opening into big picture like the Steamdeck if you'd like.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Jeah. I've turned my Legion Go into a Steamdeck experience with Bazzite. Best thing ever. Mostly worked out of the box except some small tinkering.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

They have been saying "soon" for two years. I'll believe it when I see it.

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

Non-ROM?