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[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can install wine or steam and run games on pretty much any distro. SteamOS is just tailored for the Steam Deck and is open source and under GPLv2, so anyone can fork it or contribute (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamos_kernel).

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think the confusion is Proton, people think it’s a some Valve secret that saves Linux but anyone can make their own implementation of Wine (Even Apple made a big announcement for their implementation of Wine)