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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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[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

it's fine for average users but if you really want to use it for something other than browsing or gaming you really have to use it with Distrobox. And that's fine, bit of extra work to set up but honestly if you're going to use something that is beyond web browsing, streaming, and gaming you're probably going to go with a different distro anyways.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago

Distrobox isn't really an option I went with for day to day, I'd use it to keep my projects and dependencies under control. Flatpak was fine, app image was fine, I actually spun up my own template after a bit https://github.com/Sirico/bazzite-dev. Beyond adding a couple of programs and theming, I couldn't see why I'd need to be in the files silverblue/ublue lock off.

I'm now on nix because I have a lot of stuff to do at work that I was playing about with bluefin for, but nix has more support etc. Knowing that hitting the power button will get me to the desktop every morning bar a hardware issue is for me the biggest win. Making something I can just update throughout a whole fleet and doing it all within GitHub or code is a game changer. So for me immutable are no different to convent distros great for basic stuff like you said browsing etc and good for the high-end stuff it's this middle ground where people have to learn a new way of doing something it feels like it falls apart I think.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I feel like I see this comment every time immutable distros are mentioned (of course Bazzite most of all).

Sorry but you're wrong.

[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

please, tell me why I'm wrong. I'm not a fan of immutable distros as I feel they're limiting but I'd love to be convinced otherwise.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 0 points 4 days ago

With immutables you can do pretty much everything you do on a normal distro. I code, flash microcontrollers, design and print 3d parts, write documents, draw, manage my servers, consume media.... What exactly do you think you can't do? You can install pretty much anything, actually with distrobox you can install more stuff than you would without it: you can install packages for one distribution that may not be available on some others. Flatpak works, and you also have AppImages of course.

The biggest limit with Bazzite & C is that you're limited to KDE or Gnome mostly, but if you really wanted you could layer something else on top of the base image.