Link to the actual source: https://old.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/1h7521g/looks_like_valve_is_working_on_a_steamos_device/
I won’t buy this, but as someone who uses exclusively Linux including on my self-built gaming PC, it’s great news.
Maybe I’m steeped in the past, but if your PC is for gaming, what do you gain by running Linux over Windows?
what do you gain by running Linux over Windows?
Not using Windows.
But more seriously, you’d be astonished at the progress over the last ~3 years. I don’t play that many games but have yet to run into one that doesn’t work.
Not having an update happen in the middle of a competitive game.
That happened to me and is actually why I installed Linux fully and stopped dual booting
Preference? What do I gain by running Windows over Linux? My games work just fine on Linux…
Yeah, gaming is the primary use right now, but I use my computer for other stuff as well, and I prefer Linux for all that other stuff.
You’d be surprised how many Windows-only games run better on Linux+Proton than on Windows itself. There is far less system overhead on Linux.
Coupled with the standards too: Linux tends to be more secure, it’s free, you have more choices, etc etc. I switched both of my gaming rigs to Linux a few years ago and never looked back.
freedom
Like removal of start menu advertisements and what not ?
I have Ubuntu, Win 10, and Win 11, and they don’t seem that different to me yet re: system-level ads. But I’m always reading bad news about Win 11 so maybe it didn’t roll out to me yet
ah, thank you
I’d bet it’s for the deckard standalone VR headset
The new console is just this random redditors guess. There have been no signs pointing towards that form the usual valve leaks.
The main sign in the leaked steam controller two, that’s a pretty big sign
I’d say HDMI CEC is the main sign. Why would a VR headset have that when the Steamdeck/dock didn’t?
should’ve clarified, i meant other than what was mentioned in the post.
A steam console? That might eat a lot of business from current console lines.
It would specifically hurt Xbox, which I wouldn’t be sad about.
Me neither, but competition is still good.
I’d trade xbox for an open linux box platform any day though.
Which means more reason to lock IPs to specific platforms(?)
There’s merit in a steam machine
I ended up removing the ‘gaming’ part of my gaming pc because of how little I game on it, it’s just my workstation now
I can’t bother to set up window stuff even if I got a separate pc to game on
İf anything, I would at most get a steam deck considering that it’s basically just a better switch, and Nintendo switch was amazing
i’m failing too get what you’re saying here, you said you removed the windows partition of your pc, and that you dont game on your pc because of how much of a hassle windows is?
Because if that’s the case you can play basically any of those games on any linux distro
No I don’t game on my gaming pc anymore and setting up a totally new pc would take a day of setup and week of config before it’s ready
I’m confused, what’s so complicated about it? Surely you can just install Steam and go, no? If you run Linux, you can just use the Flatpak if your package manager doesn’t have Steam.
Could you explain what’s so different about your machine that it would need a week of config? Are you running a hackintosh or something?
They should call it the Ladyshave.
