• twinnie@feddit.uk
    18·
    10 days 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
      30·
      10 days ago

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

    • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzOPMEnglish
      10·
      10 days 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
      7·
      10 days 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
      3·
      10 days 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
        1·
        9 days 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.