TheBeagle
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Is the plan to be able to put Steam OS on my desktop and be able to remove every shred of MS from my computer?
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Steam deck portable handheld gaming PC from Valve
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Hekotat
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They do not recommend doing this, but they did say it's easy to load another OS in tandem with SteamOS. I don't know if this in a traditional sense of dual booting or something else. They really need to do a showcase on the OS at this point, it should have been done before the prices were revealed for the steam machine but I assume it's being held back for a big reveal with the Steam Frame and potentially a new HL VR title.
They shot themselves in the foot by not making it the literal first thing they announced/showed off.
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TheBeagle
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Damn, I'd pay good money to be able to tell MS to fuck all the way off.
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Hekotat
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I agree, the other angle I would consider is it could potentially be such a modifiable OS that nerds will make it good enough to switch off of Windows. That sounds exactly like something Valve would think about doing. Put the tools in the hands of the community to build what needs to be built, save a ton of money on R&D costs and leverage that position.
At this point it's all speculation, they're definitely still holding something back. There is no other reason to not show it off, the magnitude of the impact of the product will determine if Valve still has it or has gone the way of every other bloated company on the planet.
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Noodleface
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With proton, if you don't play competitive games (which is for fags), there's no reason to not switch to Linux and dump MS. It offers 0.
Araxen
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All you need to do is install CachyOS or Bazzite. There really isn't a need for SteamOS on the desktop. I was also one of the people waiting for SteamOS desktop, but I installed CachyOS and haven't looked back. I still have my Windows partition but rarely use it. I only used it this last weekend to give Forza Horizon a try via PC Game pass. There isn't a solution yet for playing game pass games on Linux though Heroic Launcher is working on that. Before that I haven't used Windows in a couple of months.
You'll be surprised at how well some games run on Linux vs Windows.
You'll be surprised at how well some games run on Linux vs Windows.
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Vorph
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I like it when it works, but there's just too many 'quirks' with it. Like my PS5 -- the TV turns on the receiver which is supposed to turn on the currently selected input... except that it doesn't matter what input is currently selected, the PS5 just turns on anyway. And it's a crap shoot as to whether the actual selected input turns on too or if I have to do that manually. Sometimes when I have a device on but not being actively used on the TV, like if I want to download something on a console while watching something in Plex on my Shield TV, the inactive one will constantly tell the receiver to switch over to it.
I've got an LG OLED, Pioneer receiver (had an Onkyo before that and it didn't work any better, which isn't surprising I guess since it's the same company), Shield TV, and all the usual consoles. If it doesn't work well with the most popular brands, I decided it wasn't worth the headache to bother messing with it. I disabled it on all my devices and only left it so that the TV and receiver will turn each other on and off. Even then I still can't control the receiver volume with the TV remote.
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