Have we gotten price announcements yet, or still not cause of the parts shortages and price increases? I haven't really followed things
this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2026
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Cool. I wondered if this was coming.
I knew they were working on a general Steam OS release. Can't wait to switch my gaming rig over.
AFAICT they probably won't be advertising it as a general distro because they want some control of it (broad hardware compatibility is hard) but they do want other OEMs to use it and contribute patches to make it work on their hardware, which is easier on Linux if the distro is simply available to test on other hardware freely and patches can be upstreamed via the Linux kernel for drivers, etc
Tldr the public release will probably be full of disclaimers and oriented to PC makers
Still right up my alley