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SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC 'because right now, it's very, very tuned for Steam Deck' (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] Zeth0s 18 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It provides an alternative UI environment built and optimized for gaming. It has a separate windows manager, a complete ui, and a set of menus to simplify customization of whatever is needed for gaming and power saving.

And quick access to steam store.

It is extremely convenient if you like a console-like experience, but, if you are a tinker gamer, it has anyway a lot of nice additional features.

It is inconvenient as general purpose desktop os, because on update you basically lose packages not installed as flatpack

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Sounds nice for the telly. I love my nuc under the tv, but a nice, controller friendly interface would be sweet.

[–] Takumidesh 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is it any different than kde plasma + steam big picture?

[–] Zeth0s 5 points 10 months ago

I don't know if steam big picture use gamescope https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope.

I would guess it doesn't, but I cannot be 100% sure, I haven't used steam on my laptop since ages

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

yes, it doesn't run plasma when it's in big picture, it runs it in https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope along with other tweaks, so it's lower overhead and game windows tend to behave better

it also handles updates to os as well as to steam so you don't ever end up with an update that breaks steam, they're always in sync

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And it is somehow moddable, like people created plugins for the UI. I hope someone ends up adding alternative stores directly there and not just steam. But in any case you can install the respective apps and so on.