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The Steam Deck delivers as promised, the biggest question mark with the SD is how Valve will support it over time. Previous Valve hardware has been abandoned pr
by yokoprime 4y ago
The Steam Deck delivers as promised, the biggest question mark with the SD is how Valve will support it over time. Previous Valve hardware has been abandoned pretty quickly since Valve as a company appears to have the attention span of a 5yo
- Jyaif 4y ago> how Valve will support it over time It's a PC so there's no need for "support" from the manufacturers... at least on windows. With Linux the manufacturers have to update the drivers. Maybe one day Linux will get a stable driver API?
- brimble 4y agoThey do that and fix their GUI stack (nope, Wayland ain't doing it) and we might finally actually be a decade out from The Year of the Linux Desktop.
- mhitza 4y agoIt's funny because any other time you'd be right, except now. The Steam Deck came with no Windows support and they've gradually been offering drivers for Windows (see Linus Tech Tips video about missing video, audio support on Windows). For once Windows users spent a few days in the shoes of a Linux user.
- ihuman 4y agoWhat do you mean they abandon hardware quickly? They still support the Link, Controller, and Index. The Link hardware still gets software updates, and the idea lives on through the Link application. Same with the Controller: it's discontinued, but the steam input framework it uses still gets updates, and now can be used by all modern controllers. You could argue they quickly abandoned Steam Machines, but they didn't actually make any, they were just branded PCs (so they didn't need active support from Valve), and barely any sold. They still support the SteamOS some ran on, because the Steam Deck also runs SteamOS.