https://www.techspot.com/news/104205-steamos-could-see-general-distribution-release-work-other.html
A mention in this week's Steam Deck firmware patch notes has some observers speculating that Valve is preparing to release its well-regarded Linux build for third-party hardware....
This would be huge and a big step to single purchase ownership.
One of my biggest griped with the modern state of gaming is how purchases are platform based.
Minecraft pe doesn’t transfer between ios and android yet on pc all my games work on linux the same as windows.
Once we have the power to load the OS where we have acces to our library publishers will rush to make sure their platform gets that access.
Valve really appears as the woke gaming authority that single handed progresses the industry. Someone link a source if that perception is wrong.
Valve really appears as the woke gaming authority that single handed progresses the industry
Nah, they just have a software platform instead of hardware one
It would need to be open-source and using only open APIs when talking to the system. This isn't happening any time soon
Since you're talking about ownership, remember that most "purchases" via Steam have DRM in them. If you really want to own your library then purchase from GoG and have your games downloaded to an external harddrive. You can easily access your GoG library via Heroic on Linux.
I already am accessing gog on Linux trough heroic but I archpriciate the mention for others.
That's up to the game developers, not Steam. Many games on Steam don't have any DRM, you can copy the files anywhere you want and just start the exe without Steam even being installed.
I bought Minecraft on pc, downloaded an apk, logged in with my Microsoft account, and I can play on online servers. Seems like it can be shared, but Microsoft doesn't want you to.
Mknecraft pocket edition doesnt even need the microsoft account you connect it to to have minecraft installed
The only protection minecraft bedrock has against privacy is if it cant detect if the game was bought from the play store(at least on android, i dont know about java)
You can also find a pirated version of minecraft on the play store (the exact same game, works even in multiplayer, the only difference is that it comes with a texture pack that you can remove)
Not sure there was ever a "formal" announcement/promise, but yeah, this was mentioned as being the plan since before the Steam Deck was even released. People were expecting a general SteamOS ISO to be available on launch day.
it will probably be good for handheld manufacturers to have a reliable alternative to windows but for end user bazzite is already better
I cannot for the life of me get bazzite to use the Nvidia gpu in my laptop for shit. Like proper 3d games refuse to launch and simpler 2d games run but at like 4fps. The icon in the system tray for gpu selection/info won't let me select dgpu, only integrated and hybrid. Gpu basically never gets touched. I'm sure it's less of a bazzite issue and more of an Nvidia drivers on Linux issue, but can't really test full functionality of bazzite like this.
And that's with the Asus laptop Nvidia gpu specific image of bazzite. Very disappointed because I otherwise love bazzite. I have been keeping the windows drive in the laptop specifically for gaming until I can figure out how to fix this. I wish there were more laptop options with amd dGPUs... Looked at microcenter today and there was only one option. :(
My nvidia card works but is quite old and of little use. Nvidia is traditionally bad on linux and from what I can gather seems like is still hit or miss on normal distros, let alone atomic/immutable distros like bazzite. I would imagine the steam os release will be troublesome for nvidia users too but maybe valve has some more magic tricks to pull.
I use bazzite on steam deck. The only kinda irritating thing is the game mode update changelog displays the steamos notes and not bazzite notes. It will be 99% the same for basic users and not worth switching for anyone not needing the additional nerd functionality. If it's a new installation regardless on a handheld computer then bazzite for sure especially because bazzite already accounts for many deck alternatives.
The only kinda irritating thing is the game mode update changelog displays the steamos notes and not bazzite notes
And you have to do a Bazzite update to make it go away, which is slightly annoying. I'm not sure if you can do it from the Steam UI either, although I can always SSH in.
Or just use Bazzite. Already supports multiple handhelds, desktop, and you can have the same exact experience of opening into big picture like the Steamdeck if you'd like.
Jeah. I've turned my Legion Go into a Steamdeck experience with Bazzite. Best thing ever. Mostly worked out of the box except some small tinkering.