Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame

nuko147@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Zetta@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  In their announcement video, they specifically called out that you can install whatever software you want and showed somebody working on CAD. So, yeah, definitely.

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  • zexyqag@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think they mean SteamOS on other hardware, like a custom built PC.

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    • Zetta@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I mean the recovery images for the deck have been available and I’m pretty sure you can just install that on any x86 system.

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• LwL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I forgot where but some time in the last 3 hours I read that the goal for steamOS is to be supported on all PCs, though it’s an ongoing effort.

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  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s a big challenge, but a worthwhile one. The reason that Microsoft exploded in the DOS era was because it ran on everything that was “IBM compatible” aka x86. Meanwhile Apple was over there with a competitive product, but you could only run the software on their OS that ran in their hardware. People were able to get cheap third party x86 compatible computers and run MS-DOS (and later Windows), and they were not locked into a specific vendor doing top to bottom hardware/software support.

    If they do this right, they’ll be the go to option for a lot of people who generally use their PC primarily for gaming.

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Not to mention that Steam does have competition as an app store, stuff like GOG. I mean, it’s a little bit obnoxious to use both at once, but really not that much of a hassle.

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• tiramichu@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You’d have to assume so!

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• Stabbitha@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No, it’s supported on two specific pieces of custom hardware, the Steam Deck and Steam Machine. They’ll get there with general support, but SteamOS isn’t there yet.

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  • baropithecus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Well, there’s official support for some third party handhelds if I remember correctly? Asus and the like? And they just announced that the steam frame (vr headset) will also run steamos, and that’s on a snapdragon ARM SoC. Pretty exciting stuff ahead

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• Corridor8031@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  do people have issues running steamOs on different hardware? genunly wondering

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah, it’s not released or supported outside of the Steam Deck. So you’re probably not going to get Nvidia drivers or anything else that’s not built in to the kernel.

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