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Valve says they want SteamOS to be installable on any PC (www.youtube.com)
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In an IGN interview, Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais said that "[they] want [SteamOS] to be at the point where at some point you can install it on any PC". Below is a transcript of the interview. I tried to clean it up to my best ability.

Just like Steam Deck paved the way for Steam OS on a variety of third-party handhelds, we expect that Steam Machine will pave the way for Steam OS on a bunch of different machines in either similar form factors, different perf envelopes, different segments of the market, and get to a good outcome there. We definitely want to encourage people to try it out on their own hardware. We'll be working on expanding hardware support for the drivers and the base operating system. Just last week, we fixed something that was preventing us from booting on the very latest AMD CPU platforms. Last month, we added support for the Intel Lunar Lake platforms. We're constantly adding support and improving performance. We want it to be at the point where at some point you can install it on any PC, but there's still a ton of work to do there.

If the embedded video doesn't take you to the correct part of the video, the correct timestamp is 5:37.

EDIT: Here’s the written article of the video:
https://www.ign.com/articles/valves-next-gen-steam-machine-and-steam-controller-the-big-interview

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[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 49 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I've seen a lot of folks waiting for this to make the switch, it's silly but having a familiar name attached to it gives them a sense of comfort, and SteamOS is solid for what it is.

I'm not a fan of its whole "read only filesystem" shenanigans and wiping things on upgrade, so I switched my Deck to CachyOS Handheld, but I acknowledge it does those for a reason, adding a safety net to the "console-like" experience for most users. Admittedly that feature may be just the thing some inexperienced users would need in order to not break the thing.

[–] AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It may limit stuff for a more technical user But for common folks? It makes it reliable, a lot reliable

[–] moody@lemmings.world 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It's more reliable, but more tedious. Kind of like a walled garden, like Apple and Android phones. You can't just go download random software and install it willy nilly like Windows. I mean you can, but that process is more involved. Flatpaks and Appimages are what most users will be limited to.

[–] vividspecter@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

It's kind of a microcosm of switching to Linux in general, but more emphasised. Beginners will have no issue at all playing within the boundaries; experts will find the workarounds like nix, containers or switching to a different distribution; semi-skilled users might be driven away or become frustrated.

[–] AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Absolutely, it is a huge drawback, but the good part of it is that the user is less prone to accidentally fuck it up.

It's quite a trade-off, the more raw control you give to the end user, the more prone they are to breaking things. Of course, exceptions always apply, but in a "generic Joe" kind of user, it tends to follow that

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 1 points 2 days ago

There are plugins and addons for now I didn't felt limited when i ran a speech to text engine in game mode to chat more easily in games.

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago

Yep, exactly

[–] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 2 days ago

It's the bell curve meme

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago

I know people (and was, once upon a time, one of them) that are really scared of accidentally breaking something. To them, being told "Don't worry, the important bits are locked down anyway, so you couldn't even break them" is a promise of safety. They might not strictly need it, but how would they know in advance?

(I did break things, eventually, and learned that I can fix them too, but I took a leap of faith that most users wouldn't and probably shouldn't dare)

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I’ve seen a lot of folks waiting for this to make the switch, it’s silly but having a familiar name attached to it gives them a sense of comfort, and SteamOS is solid for what it is.

And should they be not native English speakers, they'll wonder why the desktop is only in English, why they can't even check the spelling of their native language. Or why playback of WebM videos glitches.

I really like my Steam Deck and actually use it as desktop PC from time to time but you can tell desktop mode is an afterthought. Traditional Linux distributions are actually a better choice for regular users. Valve luckily open sources and upstreams everything of SteamOS other than the actual Steam client, so it's not like SteamOS has some special sauce nobody else gets.