Steam deck portable handheld gaming PC from Valve

Rhanyn said:

Honestly I’m more interested in SteamOS than the Steam Box. Getting tired of Microsoft’s bullshit.

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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?

TheBeagle said:

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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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.

Hekotat said:

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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Damn, I'd pay good money to be able to tell MS to fuck all the way off.

TheBeagle said:

Damn, I'd pay good money to be able to tell MS to fuck all the way off.

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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.

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.

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 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.