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[–] hibby@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

While not the official Steam OS, which Valve still hasn't released officially, people have thrown Arch on one to do benchmarking comparisons and there are tutorials for getting Linux on it.

[–] rog@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Huh, I didnt realise this iteration of steamOS hadn't released. I remember tinkering with the distro they released (probably in alpha/beta) back in the day when steam machines were going to be a thing,

[–] hibby@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They switched from a Debian based OS to an Arch based immutable fork for the Deck. There are folks who have built a close version to SteamOS 3, but there would be no need if Valve would just release the official OS. I can't imagine why they haven't. It would only make it cheaper for other hardware manufacturers to release a product. I don't know how much of the Ally's price is just covering the Windows license, but it has to be a substantial percentage of the overall retail price.

[–] Cybersteel@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

So i can fetch AUR packages on the Steam Deck?

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