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SteamOS could see a general distribution release, work with other handheld gaming PCs soon (www.techspot.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/linux_gaming
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Valve really appears as the woke gaming authority that single handed progresses the industry

Nah, they just have a software platform instead of hardware one

[–] hohoho 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The ideal platform will be hardware agnostic

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It would need to be open-source and using only open APIs when talking to the system. This isn't happening any time soon

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Isn't that just OpenGL/Vulcan and Linux?

[–] woelkchen 8 points 3 months ago

It would need to be open-source and using only open APIs when talking to the system. This isn’t happening any time soon

You're describing Java which is open source since 2007.