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Steam Ate Microsoft's Lunch On PC, It's About To Do The Same On Handhelds (kotaku.com)
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (22 children)

Things which are holding this back

  • Collaboration with OEMs to provide SteamOS OTTB (Lenovo is an exception)
  • Nvidia support. Most gamers use Nvidia GPU unfortunately
  • Certain industry-standard software which don't have a Linux port. PSA: Most people don't want to learn alt software. Johnny Mainstream is scared of new softwares. This cannot be changed
  • End-users suffer from choice paralysis and Linux offers endless choice. Maybe SteamOS can help.

What we know so far, SteamOS won't be a general purpose OS, so it might not support every random piece of h/w.

We might not have the year of the Linux Desktop, but we can expect 2025-2026 to be the year of the Linux handheld.

SRC: Linux fanboy for the last decade

[–] spongeborgcubepants 4 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Nvidia works flawlessly in my system, didn't have to tweak anything.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Right, so since you had that experience, everyone else must also have it?

[–] spongeborgcubepants 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Previous commenter cited Nvidia support as a problem, I gave my singular experience of it not being a problem.

Not sure what you are on about.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Why did you feel compelled to give your anecdote, if not to undermine the idea that Nvidia support is not good?

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