That’s like saying that the year of Linux came when Android release.

It’s usually “Year of the Linux Desktop” and Android is a mobile platform, not a desktop OS.

it’s a bastardized monster clone of the original.

Android developments did benefit areas like power saving, so why the hate. Android is no GNU/Linux because of the lack of glibc.

MacOS is “Unix” in paid certification dollars only.

macOS, the Darwin layer specifically, is totally a BSD. Even with the Mach bits in the kernel because Mach itself is derived from BSD.

Homebrew could provide their own casks of FOSS applications, compiled on their infrastructure and signed by their key. It’s kinda what F-Droid does on phones.

Early Valve was totally pro Windows tech. Back when HL1 launched, it was the first idTech-derived game with a Direct3D renderer out of the box (yes, Doom95 existed but that wasn’t the default, DOS was). OpenGL was still a massive force on Windows and yet Valve decided that what their fork of GLQuake needed was a Direct3D renderer.

Valve’s stance only changed after Microsoft’s attempt to force Windows Store on everyone and Valve’s subsequent “Faster zombies” experiment (because DirectX was stagnant as well).

Luckily early next year Valve releases a version of SteamOS that runs on a phone processor. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if Steam Frame with Qualcomm SoC is just a first step for a phone several years down the road, kinda like a non-crap resurrection of the XPeria Play.

Why TF would Google start caring about what users want now, especially since this issue is way less visible to most people?

EU Digital Markets Act. Google is already on the list. The watchdog is watching Google.

Hopefully he helps turn the team around

I have yet to hear a single sentence from Hamilton that suggests that he has enough technical knowledge to develop the car.

Weil Trump dadurch erpressbar ist.

Muschi-Grapscher Trump hat keine Scham und prahlt mit sexuellen Übergriffen.

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.

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

Imagine if they made SteamOS free.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/65B4-2AA3-5F37-4227

https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/download

id love to rid my pc of the bloat of Windows

You can install and use Linux since ages. SteamOS is just regular Linux but without NVidia drivers.

I’ve seen a lot of folks waiting for this to make the switch, it’s silly but having a familiar name attached to it gives them a sense of comfort, and SteamOS is solid for what it is.

And should they be not native English speakers, they’ll wonder why the desktop is only in English, why they can’t even check the spelling of their native language. Or why playback of WebM videos glitches.

I really like my Steam Deck and actually use it as desktop PC from time to time but you can tell desktop mode is an afterthought. Traditional Linux distributions are actually a better choice for regular users. Valve luckily open sources and upstreams everything of SteamOS other than the actual Steam client, so it’s not like SteamOS has some special sauce nobody else gets.

I have to rely on scalpers or stores who sell it for triple it’s value. I want the controller

The 8bitdo Ultimate 2 series of controllers are fine pieces of hardware. Yes, they don’t have the trackpads but they have TMR sticks (probably the very same model as Steam Controller 2) and they are even compatible game consoles.

The biggest problem is that there are four very similarly named controllers (“Bluetooth” is the highest end and compatible with all BT devices even phones) but that’s it. No need to throw money at scalpers if good alternatives exist.

PS: If it behaves like Steam Deck’s controller, it’ll be useless without Steam running and merely acting as mouse.

Year of the BSD when?

When Mac OS X launched?

When iPhone launched?

When PlayStation 4 launched?

It’s yet another development branch, this time for beta testing.

Question, who uses the left trackpad and what for?

Every RetroDECK user

Steam Frame is their new VR headset

And Valve literally say on the Steam Frame website that it has a desktop mode running Plasma, just running on an ARM processor instead of x86, and can be used as stand alone PC.

Not sure I wanna blow battery charge on editing spreadsheets in LibreOffice in VR but it’ll be possible.

If everything is soldered anyway, there is no reason to have separate chips for CPU+GPU, especially if that hardware already exists like the AMD Ryzen AI Max line.

Cost is a factor because just as with Steam Deck the two SKUs will only differ in storage space, not in performance. Using last gen RDNA3 is 100% a cost driven choice.

There was the story recently that AMD demanded a very high minimum order (10 million or so?) for semi-custom versions of the lasest Ryzen and RDNA iterations for some Xbox handheld which is unlikely that handheld would sell.

By going this route, Valve avoided this. Surely there is spare manufacturing capacity for RDNA3 by now.

Ive Been using KDE Plasma after upgrading Debian which it now officially supports but I’ve been experiencing crashes and bugs… This surprises me on a Debian machine.

Doesn’t surprise me. Debian’s definition of stability is “stays the same”, not “free of bugs”. In Debian Stable packages are frozen and only severe bugs are allowed to be fixed which doesn’t necessarily mean crashes but security risks.

Then there is Debian Unstable. The name already says it. It’s unstable, it’s the development branch.

For some time Ubuntu was the middle ground of a regular, bugfixed snapshot of Debian Unstable but that Snap infested POS is no longer suitable for regular users.

A friend of mine buys every Pokemon game and described this (tounge on cheek) as a compulsive mental illness of theirs.