Valve appear to have some pretty ambitious future plans for Steam, as we've seen recently in a leak (and not for the first time) that Valve has plans for ARM64 and Android support on Linux.
    • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      What would an official steamOS desktop do that bazzite can’t? Unless you need commercial support because you are selling steam machines I don’t see how a official release would be of advantage.

          • Cossty@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            My brother plays games on Windows. I tried to convert him to Linux like two times, but he doesn’t want to do it. He doesn’t even play multiplayer games. Just single-player and co-op games. So Anticheat wouldn’t be a problem. When I said to him that Steam is releasing their own Linux distro, he said: Sure, I will try that.

            That was almost 3 years ago and there still isn’t official steamos for desktop.

            • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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              2 months ago

              SteamOS at the end of the day just is an immutable distro with game mode for the steam deck. Bazzite does the same for PCs. I get that there is some level of brand recognition with Steam, but I think most people (including me) would take a while to notice there is something of when they are handed a steam deck with bazzite

    • Ashyr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      41·
      2 months ago

      I don’t really understand what this means. Can you explain the implications?

      • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        For the implications, I believe it would create a first class commercial level competition for Windows. It would open the door for a vendor trusted platform that implemented all the anti-cheat technologies. Paving the way to lift the virtual Linux ban on first day AAA games compatibility.

        • SatouKazuma@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          This is what I was getting at. Sure, most games can be run with Proton fine and well, but if anti-cheat is code for “run Windows or else”, a lot of games are just unplayable, forcing gamers to at least dual boot with Windows.

    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Full fledged SteamOS desktop release when?

      Maybe never. If I was at Valve, I would not want to open Pandora’s box of NVidia drivers.