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Hopefully, this means an official release of SteamOS desktop. I want to switch away from Windows 11 IoT, if I can get a flavor of Linux with official backing from an 800lb gaming gorilla. While I can try out Bazzite or Cachy, I would prefer to have only one Linux for the rest of my PC’s life.

Would have stuck with Windows, if it weren’t for the fact that Microsoft has been channeling the spirit of an overly controlling parent.

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utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

official backing from an 800lb gaming gorilla

Eh… aren’t most of the largest corporations contributing to Linux already? I’m not sure what you need beside Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Samsung, etc www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members

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- tb_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Those companies aren’t exactly releasing consumer-facing distro’s, though.
  
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  - utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    True, but would one want to have a BigTech labels on their Linux distribution? Wouldn’t that kind of miss the point and bring us back to e.g. ChromeBooks?
    
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    tb_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Maybe. As it stands Valve is rather open with their implementation, but who’s to say it will remain indefinitely so.
    
    I do get the desire, though. I’ve gone to Bazzite and Fedora and – even though it’s a lot better than just a year ago – it still requires some commandline tweaking. It isn’t entirely smooth sailing yet.
    Will SteamOS be? I do have some doubts.
    
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- uniquethrowagay@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Those contribute to Linux, but not Desktop Linux and not at all gaming on Linux.
  
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  - utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I’m a bit too lazy to check for the entire stack I admit but I bet a lot of those actually do. Still to do a quick check Google for examples is on ev.kde.org/supporting-members/
    
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KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Not what you asked for but as someone else who used W11 IOT CachyOS is fantastic. It’s just Arch Linux with really strong gaming first additions.

Haven’t had a hitch.

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azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
They said there’s still a lot of work for them to do with SteamOS before it’s usable on all PCs. I wouldn’t hold my breath especially if you’re on NVIDIA, especially if it’s older than RTX-es. Besides, when SteamOS is ready for general public, the desktop Linux experience is elsewhere regardless of the distribution.

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