I see this mostly as pre-work for supporting the Steam machine. But nevertheless it is a Big Deal for the Handheld Market because now SteamOS now becomes an even better option for most of the Handhelds available. Maybe some manufacturers might even think about shipping their devices with SteamOS.
Me personally I am very happy with the Lenovo Legion Go S on Steam OS (just bought the Windows version and replaced it with Steam OS). With the better support we can feal more comfortable to recommend SteamOS for users of other devices.
Maybe some manufacturers might even think about shipping their devices with SteamOS.
Yes. And the first one to ship something pocket sized with SteamOS and able to run Balatro is going to break the Internet.
It’s possible to play Steam (and GOG/Epic/whatever) games on phones nowadays via GameNative
For playing Balatro on the go, I just use a tablet (Dell Latitude that is, so normal Linux desktop)
The issue with Balatro is that you or at least I need some screen estate do easily differentiate suits, and I don’t play in colorblind mode. Then the game doesn’t really benefit from joysticks, it’s rather a game where you point and click, but don’t move. So all in all just a good fit for a tablet.
Ooh. I’ll have to try that. Thanks!
I think it’s possibly the best way to play it, sure my majority of play time is on PC and it’s close but it’s way better than on the Deck, or a phone mind you. Yeah Deck has touch but Tablet is just better
So you could run it on an AMD based PC as well? 🤔
3rd party Steam Machines inbound!
I’m running the official steamOS on an AMD computer (cpu+gpu) and it works great. Sometimes switching between desktop and gaming mode messes up the audio (no audio) but I use desktop mode rarely so it’s a non issue to me. I can always fix it by manually reconfiguring the audio output device or restarting the computer. It’s a great experience otherwise :)
I basically have one (based on DeskMeet X300), although it runs on Bazzite.
Dunno if SteamOS would’ve worked back when I set it up.I preferred Bazzite, because it provides full disk encryption out of the box whereas there’s only a kind of workaround for encrypting the user profile on SteamOS - unless you want to risk breaking all by SteamOS updates.
With current prices building 3rd party Steam Machines is about as appealing as it is for Steam releasing Steam Machines.
I would’t have that “Steam Machine” if it weren’t for repurposing the DeskMeet X300 that I already had and which I no longer needed for its formerly intended purpose (it was in the end a waste running the Proxmox Virtual Environment there and I moved the PVE to a Dell Wyse 5070).
Well, that’s gone quite off-topic. What I wanted to say was simple:current hardware prices are such a pain in the ass and make building Steam Machine no fun!
I should probably worry more that Firefox on my Steam Deck is basically logged into everything. If it were to be stolen…
You should worry about all personal data/accounts.
I worry about credentials saved in Firefox, Thunderbird, Nextcloud and my Steam account.
Just playing devil’s advocate - if steamos is supposed to be for a console-like experience, why would you care if your console is FDE?
I want a console-like experience for games and a laptop like for non gaming.
I understand this might be niche, but for a handheld device were the risk of theft or losing is not insignificant, some protection seems needed.
Spot-on!
That’s what I have (gaming and working unified) both at my Steam Deck running SteamOS (with profile encryption) and my laptop running Bazzite (with FDE).
My DeskMeet is off most of the time, although it has the most beefy GPU (sporting a PowerColor Radeon RX 9060 XT, which I just managed to fit in the case) - yet it also has the highest power consumption and I rarely need that power for the games I play most often. Btw. it runs Bazzite with FDE 😉
Like @Railcar8095@lemmy.world already explained, having some strong protection of data on a device like the Steam Deck, that can easily be lost/stolen seems to be warranted.
Aside from the saved login credentials of my Steam account, there are a lot more credentials saved on it, because I love to use the desktop mode as work environment.
Having someone getting access to several accounts saved in the browser or email client would be not very great to say the least.
I mean they’ve had every opportunity to make a SteamOS handheld. And yet after all these years there’s only been one.
There were ROG Ally X and Lenovo Legion Go S, with official SteamOS support.
There was never a SteamOS version of ROG Ally
SteamOS officially supports ROG Ally X. Installing it on it is like a first class experience, as if you would have purchased a preinstalled device. Legion Go S was sold with SteamOS preinstalled. Steam Deck is not the only device with SteamOS.
This is categorically not the same thing as a “3rd party Steam Machine”. You can make your own today with virtually any PC, that’s not what’s being discussed though.
Go Legion S is officially listed on site but I guess you’re just ignoring that part.
I already said there was 1 in my initial reply.
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The os build on Linux with generally great and support, niw supports this wow.
It needs to run on non-AMD hardware too.
AMD had been contributing kernel level bindings for their hardware for many years. Nvidia is just getting started, but they have the funding so it is picking up pace quite fast. Intel is a bit better but still not there yet, also their GPUs are both the least popular and performant.
Honestly, I think AMD’s deserves this and more. Their decisions led them here. If it weren’t for what they have been doing, Linux gaming would be worse.
One step at a time. Support for an entire manufacturer’s line, not just a couple hardware configurations is a massive step already for a distro that was originally designed for specific hardware.
We all need to run on non-Nvidia hardware too.
Why would they make a big deal? You use their product, buy games on their platform and they get 30% on each game you buy. They keep making billions by using the hard work of Linux, Wine and games devs and get their dicks sucked for free by the millions of gamers who think they practically invented gaming and would take a bullet to protect their favourite billionaire. Sounds like a good deal for a business that runs a kid’s gambling scheme and doesn’t let you own your games… And yeah… blablabla they really care blablabla good billionaire, I’ve heard it all.
