We know that official support for the Ally is coming, so this could be considered a preview of what that will be like.

  • Ulrich@feddit.org
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    12 days ago

    I mean “real SteamOS” has always been available. It was just never tailored to those devices.

    • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      12 days ago

      As well, Bazzite is for all intents and purposes just SteamOS with support for other handhelds. It runs the exact same gamemode package that the Deck does.

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        11 days ago

        Bazzite is great but people are going to be far more likely to install SteamOS just because it’s Steam.

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        12 days ago

        Bazzite is awesome, have been using it on my main laptop for over 6 months now.

        It’s slightly different than SteamOS as it’s immutable Fedora rather than Arch. But with distrobox, none of that really matters anyway.

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          Yeah I do understand the differences, that’s why I said they are essentially the same, because to a less tech-inclined end-user they function in the same way.

          I dunno, I guess I just don’t super understand the hype around SteamOS coming to desktop. I do get the excitement for OEM devices with it though.