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Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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Nindelofocho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
SteamOS has a normal linux desktop, its only in deck mode where everything is deck specific

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- Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah, it’s just Arch with KDE plasma
  
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BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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- Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  SteamOS was scrapped and rewritten. SteamOS 2 into 3 aren’t related at all.
  
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- Cupcake1972@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yes, but the previous version has been based on Debian.
  
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