They said they’ll start with Steam OS for ARM via their partner program. Same as with their x86 partnerships.

Great video, probably the best I’ve seen from LTT.

Imagine a Google Pixel level phone made by Valve, running Steam OS (Linux) on ARM. That’s my nerd wet dream.

AMD has been pure bliss for me. ~3 years ago, when I distrohopped my 3080 TI sucked on every distro.

This is hilarious 🤣

I prefer RetroDeck, plus they are close friends with the RomM team, hopefully we’ll see an integration soon™.

That was a great read, thanks for sharing!

the machine will be priced as a pc and not as a console (whatever that means)

Steam Machine 2: DOA 2

Yes.

We are the niche of a niche. We need more content, as long as it’s relevant.

… I use Bazzite btw

Well, they already did that with the Deck, they earn very little from the hardware. Chances are they’ll do the same.

Steam Machine

If the Steam Machine really takes off, I see way more people moving to Linux on their main rigs and laptops, and in turn making companies stop ignoring it, if it becomes a massive success I imagine:

• Mainstream games like FIFA supporting Linux
• Apps like Affinity Studio being distributed through Steam officially supported via Proton.
• Epic games will be the last company to keep ignoring Linux.
• Valve adopting Waydroid for SteamOS (for Netflix, Spotify, YouTube, etc)
• NVIDIA will redouble their Linux efforts.
• Greatest than ever VR support in Linux

Steam Frame

• Lots of Linux apps will work on Android desktop mode, like LibreOffice, Inkscape, etc.
• Linux phones will receive a lot more maintainers and funding.

Steam Deck

• Android apps on the Deck via Valve’s Waydroid
• Steam Deck 2 on ARM

Other

• New use cases for ARM will motivate RISCV to speed up it’s growth.
• KDE & Arch will receive more funding from Valve
• More contributions to the Kernel
• More Linux developers
• Increased security for Linux
• Flathub will grow

Does Briar ask for anything ?

AFAIK Proton-GE uses VLC and Valve is from the US, where VLC is considered to breach some codec licenses I believe h264 decoding in particular. But I’m not sure, it’s been a long time since I’ve read about it.

I would go with Aurora or Fedora Kinoite. Atomic + KDE is unbreakable and easy for Windows casuals.

The only thing I dislike about Aurora is the illustrations baked into the distro. SDDM & Bazaar have them and can’t be changed. But it’s a freaking awesome distro.

I use it daily on my work laptop through an external USBC M2 NVME caddy. Today I had to move to a new work laptop and I just plugged it to the new one and that was it, my OS and all my stuff on my new work laptop in just a few seconds. No downtime. No drivers to update. Nothing.

The laptops have their factory Windows untouched. No warranty is void. IT is happy and I get to use Linux at work.

Plus, I can plug the drive to my home desktop PC running Bazzite and open files as if it was a regular thumbdrive.

This setup makes me so happy.

To fix the missing videos, use Proton-GE. Easiest method: Download it with Proton-up QT (bundled with Bazzite) then chose Proton-GE from the game’s Steam compatibility settings.

It’s because they use proprietary codecs that Valve can’t freely distribute.

Minecraft (Java) with Mods

I bet they know they can’t do anything other than a Deck with no screen if they don’t want it to fail like the SC1.

I’ve never tried the inkscape cli, how is it ?

I bet you can, get it from their github.