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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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    utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    FWIW been using SteamOS on the SteamDeck for ~3 years now and from gaming to tinkering, no major problems. Never had to tinker hard or re-install. A couple of time it didn’t suspend properly or I had to hold power button of to force a shutdown but that’s about it.
    
    I doubt Valve would back of from the openness because that’s their one single advantage.
    
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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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