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Recent patch notes sounded like they might be hinting at upcoming ROG Ally support, but it’s now confirmed.
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Hell yes! More Linux more better!
Insert =“More, More!”= meme here.
@ipha @Fubarberry u wonder when or if at all well get a desktop version thats as easy to install as installing steam os on the steam deck is
They keep saying it’s coming, bazzite is pretty solid for now, but I’d really like to get an official valve iso.
Great news! The more devices running SteamOS the better
It would make the Ally usable. Windows holds it back a ton because it’s a trash OS.
There’s still some hardware issues to contend with. Like the fact that it fries SD cards due to poor card slot placement… and the control stick bug…
Let’s just say my wife has one and we recently got her a Steam Deck instead. I had to replace one of the sticks on the Ally and still had problems. She also can’t use the SD card slot at all. It’s flawed hardware with potential (after a couple revisions).
It’s had a revision which appears to have fixed that, and brought other improvements.
However it also came with a price bump, and Asus has been under fire recently for awful handling of warranties all across their business
Potential that will never go anywhere. It’s ASUS, they’re on the 8th iteration of phone and still having problems, the Ally X is having problems too.
ASUS is just a problem company.
This is the right move
This will make that device so much more usable.
As long as you don’t use the sd card slot
Valve shouldn’t give their blessing to SteamOS on the Ally. That should be Asus‘ job. However they could give Asus a cut on every game sold through their device on SteamOS (like a few percent). That would make it much more financially interesting for Asus and they might put an official team behind it, to support SteamOS.
It mentions that the work from Valve was for accessory support. So they may not be extending that much effort towards getting it on specific devices. Rather, I think they’re working on generic PC support on the side.
You don’t think the developers of SteamOS should be the ones working on SteamOS?
Yes, thats how Open Source works or they can keep paying Windows. Asus knows their hardware much better than Valve does and has a much bigger interest in a good user experience, but currently lacks the incentive, because Windows is a „good“ paid alternative. Honestly I don’t understand all the downvotes.
Open source just means you can get the source code, it doesn’t mean you can take over a project.
Asus can’t just take SteamOS, apply some driver tweaks, change some options, and release it as a SteamOS device.
A lot of SteamOS is proprietary, and Valve of course owns all the IP related to the branding. Asus literally needs Valve’s blessing to do it.
Asus are certainly welcome to help Valve with their code, but Valve could also say no this is our project.
And of course they can fork the open part of SteamOS and brand it as something else, and not install steam/steamUI, but that’s half the reason people use the steam deck. It wouldn’t be SteamOS without that.
Okay, understood. May be SteamOS was the incorrect wording. I meant the Linux Kernel, Arch, Proton. I am assuming most changes are related to hardware and software compatibility which should all be open source.
I confirm that I will never buy anything Asus even again.
Not even their brand new “handheld” Assussy??
(It will fully support Hannah Montana Linux)
Ok, I repent my sin now. Hannah Montana has my undivided attention. https://media.tenor.com/_cGu-9UxtV4AAAAM/mdr.gif
Dual boot this…and I may have the perfect device.
Distros like bazzite have really picked up but they’ll always be niche projects in the eyes of game dev and publishers. Steam os at least can help them realise that Linux isn’t an instant dismiss because they haven’t used it before.
I have friends in AAA game dev and they all have the same kinda dated idea of Linux being this sweaty crazy programmer distro even though we all play games online together.
If valve can carry on increasing the market share it’ll definitely help get rid of some stereotypes for Devs which in turn brings more market share.
I really hope Valve takes up this market with strong software. I believe Microsoft is lagging behind just using regular Windows for that.
Yeah the more gaming landscape gets matured outside of Windows the better
Big W as usual from Valve. We need more privately owned companies again.
Finally the buyers can make use of that hardware!
How funny/great would it be if the PSP2 and Switch 2 ran branches of SteamOS?
PSP2?
My bad, I meant Vita 2
The vita was a tragically underperforming console. I loved mine, just wish it had more games
That would be awesome, I still have hopes that it will somehow be possible to put Linux on the vita, but that probably will never happen
Vita 2 when
N-Gage 2 confirmed
You can run Linux on the Switch: https://switchroot.org/
I saw an ad for this thing on TV the other day. IDK why, but seeing things like this on TV always makes me giddy ever since I first saw Secret of Mana advertised on TV. Seeing new tech (and video games before a certain time) having commercials on television is like seeing a unicorn.
