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Discussion (14 Comments)Read Original on HackerNews

N_Lens•about 4 hours ago
What I can see from this release is that SteamOS is being converted from device firmware into a general-purpose distribution that happens to boot into a game launcher. Quite a bit of a version jump in the dependencies as well.
imkac•about 3 hours ago
Once KDE 6.8 is released, Valve must add Wayland support for Steam client and Proton/Wine. Also, they should drop 32-bit dependencies for Steam client on Linux, which has been done for Windows and macOS long ago.
vkaku•about 1 hour ago
Supporting old games is important for me or I'll use a distro that doesn't fuck around for me.

Microsoft fucked up many people's lives and I for one will never let working products get fucked with the same terrible people and their decisions.

dfabulich•about 1 hour ago
+1. Most games, once shipped, completely disband their development team.

If you require game developers to even so much as recompile their game, they simply cannot do it. If you want the game to keep working, you have to guarantee ABI compatibility in perpetuity.

delduca•about 2 hours ago
Must?
glimshe•44 minutes ago
Anyone has had a good experience using SteamOS on one of those $200 N95 PCs from Amazon?
chorizo•about 3 hours ago
My steam deck has been my main dev pc for a year now. Also serves Qwen 3.5 9B when I use my MacBook Air. Distrobox prevents OS updates from clobbering my environment.
sph•about 3 hours ago
Still more sensible than the 'my iPad is my main dev environment' fad from ~10 years ago. The Steam Deck is a fully fledged Linux desktop, not a defanged entertainment system.
koolala•about 2 hours ago
It's awesome as a desktop. Way better than modern windows. It's like a weird Linux laptop you can unplug from your dock and use comfortably laying down which most computers can't.
chorizo•about 2 hours ago
SteamOS is Arch Linux under the hood. Mine is setup as a desktop with 4K monitor, keyboard, mice and webcam. Upgraded internal ssd, added an external drive. 16GB ram, cooling fan and AMD unified gpu. It’s designed to tolerate close to max cpu+gpu load indefinitely and runs my Vulkan simulation code overnight.
koolala•about 2 hours ago
Me too. Are you able to run full screen programs like games on a monitor with this latest OS?

The version before this broke fullscreen when I updated to the Wayland stable branch so I had to revert to X11 SteamOS.

chorizo•about 2 hours ago
Haven’t used mine to play games in ages, not sure. Haven’t installed the update yet because I don’t want my dev environment to get accidentally borked. But yes, the previous version couldn’t even play videos full screen.
koolala•about 2 hours ago
Same. Videos too yeah. Hopefully this update fixes it but I don't see it mentioned. Weird how something like that makes it into Stable.

There is a command you can run to make the old boot partition the main partition again so reverting the update holds after reboot. Wish they built the command into the GUI.

xiaoyu2006•about 3 hours ago
Nice, they are quite close to upstream.