Comment on Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1.
reddig33@lemmy.world 8 months agoSteam 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 8 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 8 months ago
SteamOS has a normal linux desktop, its only in deck mode where everything is deck specific
Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, it’s just Arch with KDE plasma
BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com 8 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 8 months ago
SteamOS was scrapped and rewritten. SteamOS 2 into 3 aren’t related at all.
Cupcake1972@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Yes, but the previous version has been based on Debian.