Comment on Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1.
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 10 months ago
Ow.. and Windows 11 also have stronger hardware requirements, making your laptop not usable in the future if Windows 10 is also deprecated. Causing more and more e-waste ;( just because of software from Microsoft.
reddig33@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Steam would be smart to package their steam deck OS as a dual boot installer for PCs. Boot right into steam when you want to play games.
Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They’re eventually going to release SteamOS onto desktop platforms, but for now you can just install Linux.
SteamOS has so many deck and handheld specific features that it’s not really a good OS for desktop hardware. HoloISO is something you can install, though, as long as you don’t have a Nvidia card, which is just SteamOS packaged in a way that let’s it run on other hardware
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 10 months ago
SteamOS has a normal linux desktop, its only in deck mode where everything is deck specific
Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, it’s just Arch with KDE plasma
BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
I think StreamOS has been around longer than the Steam deck, actually; but I’m sure it’s been tailored somewhat for the hardware.
Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 10 months ago
SteamOS was scrapped and rewritten. SteamOS 2 into 3 aren’t related at all.
Cupcake1972@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Yes, but the previous version has been based on Debian.