Steam Deck

[Stephen Partington]

Whatever their faults, Valve/Steam has been a huge proponent for gaming on
Linux and helped push it forward more than just about anyone except those
behind Wine I think. (Very much perception more than fact)



On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 8:55 AM Matthew Gibson <
guanjun.de.geliqian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, but can I compile Gentoo on it. :')
>
> It certainly is exciting to see the progression of gaming on Linux. It
> will be fun to see how this is received among the community.
>
> Matt
>
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2021, 8:35 AM Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> SteamOS was built for the creation of Steam Gaming consoles. And while
>> they never quite took off as the hardware vendors wanted to steamos has not
>> gone away.
>>
>> https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/
>>
>> But based on some reading SteamOS 3.0 is coming, and the way it is talked
>> about makes it sound like arch is the thing. Although I am not seeing any
>> hard announcement of SteamOS 3.0 yet
>>
>> This si also really interesting to ready through
>> https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/steamdeck
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 7:16 AM murph via PLUG-discuss <
>> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>> ----- Original message -----
>>> From: Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
>>> On 7/16/21 12:41 AM, der.hans via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>> > moin moin,
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > It's Linux-based and they claims to support installing 3rd party
>>> software
>>> > and even other Operating Systems.
>>> >
>>> > That'll make games even more dynamic since NPC won't respawn, they'll
>>> > recompile :).
>>> >
>>> > https://social.gould.cx/@ted/106586487578801896
>>> >
>>>
>>> This is a *huge* win for Linux and Linux Gaming. Here's hoping that it
>>> is popular and does well.
>>>
>>> -Matt
>>> ---------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> *May* be a huge win.  Haven't we seen a few Linux-based consoles come
>>> out and not really move the needle at all?  Wasn't one of them from Valve?
>>>
>>>     --murph
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>>
>>
>> --
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>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>
>> Stephen
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rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen
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