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How long before we see “Steam Linux”?

• detaro 5y ago
  -7 years? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SteamOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SteamOS
  • MR4D 5y ago
    Okay - I should have been more specific. Can I run regular KDE or gnome apps (a such as gimp), or perhaps something like VSCode on it? I thought that it only ran the steam app as opposed to a real desktop? (pardon my ignorance here - I’m vaguely aware of SteamOS, but never tried it)
    • detaro 5y ago
      from Wikipedia: > for example, there is no file manager or image viewer installed by default. Users can, however, access the GNOME desktop environment and perform tasks such as installing other software It's "just" Debian with some default configuration and extras (and version 3 will replace Debian with Arch)
• MR4D 5y ago
  I’m thinking Ubuntu could do it as “Ubuntu for Gamers”. It would probably go a long way to getting a common set of infrastructure for developers to build on.