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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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[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 89 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

Linux is getting too mainstream I gotta switch to freebsd /j

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 33 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's just not the same if you don't have to fiddle for hours to get a game to run, is it?

[–] nocturne@piefed.social 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I thought that was the game of Linux, the fiddling.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There's certainly a satisfaction in getting something to work in an environment it was never intended for.
But I can't deny that it's also nice that most games just work nowadays.

[–] vividspecter@aussie.zone 4 points 3 days ago

I just create new problems to solve to scratch that itch.

[–] orochi02@feddit.org 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Templeos or ye shall be smitten

[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago

I'm pretty smitten with Linux already.

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Year of the BSD when?

When Mac OS X launched?

When iPhone launched?

When PlayStation 4 launched?

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

MacOS is "Unix" in paid certification dollars only.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

MacOS is “Unix” in paid certification dollars only.

macOS, the Darwin layer specifically, is totally a BSD. Even with the Mach bits in the kernel because Mach itself is derived from BSD.

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

The fact that the origins of maxOS (OSX) is forked from BSD means nothing. Apple has rewritten just about everything from the ground up at this point.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's like saying that the year of Linux came when Android release. Sure, but it's a bastardized monster clone of the original.

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

That’s like saying that the year of Linux came when Android release.

It's usually "Year of the Linux Desktop" and Android is a mobile platform, not a desktop OS.

it’s a bastardized monster clone of the original.

Android developments did benefit areas like power saving, so why the hate. Android is no GNU/Linux because of the lack of glibc.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I just run headless Linux and imagine that I'm playing games.

[–] TBi@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I’m so hardcore I run Linux without a CLi!

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

Watching the boot log eh?

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Damage@feddit.it 4 points 4 days ago

ReactOS, so I can go against the flow but still not use Windows

[–] stupud@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nah, Plan 9 is the real Unix.