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Is Valve showcasing Godot in their new Hardware Announcement? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/godot@programming.dev
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At 3:09 during the introduction of the Steam Machine

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[–] 83 points 11 months ago (22 children)

Yep. Godot and Blender I think

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  • [–] 29 points 11 months ago (20 children)

    And running it all in KDE Plasma, so my guess is some version of arch

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  • [–] 31 points 11 months ago (19 children)

    Yup, it's the same OS as steam deck, which is based on Arch.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    I’m just hoping Valve is ready to step into the OS scene with their own distro. Microsoft is dropping the ball hard with win11

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  • [+] -9 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Imagine if they made SteamOS free. Its not a bad OS, and id love to rid my pc of the bloat of Windows

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (11 children)

    I wonder why they only give support to Steam in Ubuntu and not Arch at this point

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (10 children)

    Can you please clarify what you mean by this comment? Isn't SteamOS just a pre-configured Arch build?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (5 children)

    I don't understand it either. I'm running it on Fedora w/o problems.

    Edit: I mean the steam client. Steam OS is based on Arch.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    I'm saying that Steam is not fixing any issues in the client for anything that is not Ubuntu (and SteamOs of course)

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    That text box is obviously a leftover from the before times. Some pages on Steam's website don't get updated for ages. It's not great but not news either. Only the reality at https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues counts in this case.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    The readme in that repo says the same and I was told I wouldn't receive support on Arch in august when I reported a bug. It looks like dev team does track issues in other distros but customer team does not give support.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    The steam client is only officially supported on Ubuntu and only using KDE, Gnome or Unity. So Valve's support team won't check issues on any other Linux setup.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    The steam client is only officially supported on Ubuntu and only using KDE, Gnome or Unity.

    No. They offer a .deb package but repackaging and redistribution is allowed.

    Valve’s support team won’t check issues on any other Linux setup.

    That's false. I guess you never actually reported a bug on their Github page. Here is a random bug report from Steam on Fedora installed from RPMFusion with a Valve developer asking for details instead of closing the issue for being unsupported: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/12422

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Steam web and the readme in the repo says Ubuntu is a requirement, so they are not being very clear on what they do give support to. I know they allow redistributing the client, but that is a different thing.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Steam web and the readme in the repo says Ubuntu is a requirement

    Yeah, when their own documents don't even mention Steam Deck or SteamOS, you can just conclude that these are yet another pieces of text that have not been brought up to date by editors, especially when the website still lists Unity as supported desktop. Keeping support documents up to date is just one of the things Valve sucks at.

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    • [–] 51 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Godot has also been pushing a lot for better VR tools lately. I suspect that is another place where Valve is discretely pulling some strings.

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  • [+] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)
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    • [–] 22 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Godot is certainly the easiest and simplest to install in terms of full engine and game dev IDE.

    Whether they wanted to showcase or deliberately chose it for how it looks or not, I think the simple install onto a presentation desk/PC/Steam Machine may have been a reason as well.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    They're very much focused on gaming, which makes sense it's Valve, but essentially it's just a PC so it can run anything that you would be able to run on Windows or normal Linux, also apparently it can also run Android apps.

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    • [–] 11 points 11 months ago

    Oh wow! I missed that! So cool!

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    [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    I've been waiting for it.

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