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Valve will officially let you install SteamOS on other handhelds as soon as this April (www.theverge.com)
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[–] grue 25 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Valve has always "let you" install SteamOS on anything you want -- it's copyleft software; they don't have a choice.

What's different now is that Valve will be facilitating you to do it by packaging the software in a less Steam Deck-specific way to make it easier.

I realize some might think this is a pedantic distinction, but it's not okay for the media to disparage Free Software by ascribing more authority to Valve than it actually has.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's not true. It's not all free software. The distribution of it certainly isn't free even if most of the individual pieces are.

My distro containing emacs doesn't make the distribution itself free software, it just contains some free software. Similar to how emacs being on Windows doesn't make Windows free software.

Steam OS is a higher percentage of free software than Windows, but it is not exclusively free software. The SteamOS trademark is also not free to use without authorization.

This is not disparaging free software, you're making drama where there need not be any.

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