Unless you're going to tell me you buy games on epic
Unless you're going to tell me you buy games on epic
KLike some kind of unicorn
CUnfortunately Steam is too good
Aoh ofc but more focus on steam is good for them
Jman I would totally be like "pricing is based on how linux friendly your shit is, so you better learn how to linux really quick because Imma charge you money."
Athey've wanted to attack windows for ages too
CI bought Ubisoft games on Epic, when they had the chain coupon thing that let you buy them for 5 bucks a pop
Atbh I think Valve's window of opportunity to get SteamOS on other handhelds is slowly disappearing.
other manufacturers are now heavily investing in Windows GUIs, Microsoft also probably isn't sitting still, and you have other options like Playtron slowly being worked on in the background
other manufacturers are now heavily investing in Windows GUIs, Microsoft also probably isn't sitting still, and you have other options like Playtron slowly being worked on in the background
J
CThe gold editions and stuff
Jlet's see if verge hearts me back
AI want them to ignore now ;p
CUp to 700 games on Epic & friends, the free stuff outnumbers my Steam library 3:1 now
Mtrue. honestly I just don’t think they have the bandwidth to work on their in-house Linux stuff alongside a wider Linux release in a timely matter
Jyeah they're just not built that way
Ayep, I think Valve really messed up on execution, they gave Windows and other options too much breathing room
AI dunno, the chief complaint every time is windows
ADeck OLED was actually a mistake imo, they should've prioritized general SteamOS release before the OLED
Ayet how many PC handhelds ship with linux now? 1
CI don't think they did, Windows is still Windows. The silver bullet for SteamOS is gamescope. Maybe Microsoft will develop an equivalent, wouldn't hold my breath
Adid ya know that Lenovo actually approached Valve for to use SteamOS, but Valve said no?
Aguess why?
ADeck OLED was taking up Valve's developer bandwidth
MGamescope vanilla support is rather garbage for these handhelds as well
Jand also, everyone forgets how hard it is to make an OS.
Mthere’s a reason we have to patch it to hell
Jyou have to hire teams of people for that
Ayeah, Valve prides itself on having a low employee count
Abut tbh I think it's hurting their overall ability to execute
CI think that's the least of their issues perhaps; how many employees does System76 have?
Alike why can't they work on both a general SteamOS release alongside the Deck OLED? not enough headcount
CWhile building a whole DE ecosystem
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FSmall floor
Pyou can make steam games launch like this but i absolutely am not handing out instructions to do so lmaoooooo
FI saw their office once
Peven if you do get games booting off an NTFS disk it'll still just end up with dementia after all that effort
Jyeah people are going to read that article and think they're getting some magical thing and it's like, if it was anywhere close to a thing you would have seen them hiring people from KDE, some kernel people, a bunch of internals people.
Jlike, they wouldn't be able to magically make a general purpose distro without having teams like that.
CMaybe it's more so that OS development is hard as j0rge said, and Valve employees generally only work on what they want to
CThe whole process is vulnerable to bikeshedding
Aor y'know, when your entire company is something like 300 employees total
Aof course you don't have bandwidth to work on both the deck OLED and a general-purpose SteamOS release
Awhich is why Valve said no to Lenovo when Lenovo reached out
MMost kernel stuff is igalia anyway
CBut even then, if you have a handful of hyperproductive lads like S76 does
Jthis is why the cloud native way wins, maintaining distros is hard. So don't maintain a distro, derive from a base image and improve. Boom.
P"don't maintain a distro. just maintain a distro"
CKick the can down the road :moyaiguy:
Ai do think the CI/CD update cadence is a bit crazy though
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