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Valve's interest is in selling the Steam Deck handheld, which is an Arch Linux PC that just defaults to a friendly console UI, playing Windows games transparent
by tapoxi 4y ago
Valve's interest is in selling the Steam Deck handheld, which is an Arch Linux PC that just defaults to a friendly console UI, playing Windows games transparently through Proton. It's probably the best example of average consumers using full-blown desktop Linux.
- hot_gril 4y agoChromeOS is probably more widely used, but yeah. And Steam Deck must be by far the largest use case for Wine.
- seanw444 4y agoCalling ChromeOS Linux is like calling Android Linux. It's barely passable in that it derives from it, but there are so many things different. SteamOS has the benefit of being basically entirely open and modifiable. Heck, it has KDE Plasma for its desktop mode.
- abacadaba 4y agoAndroid is Linux, just not GNU/Linux :)
- hot_gril 4y agoYeah, the GNU disambiguation is relevant now. Years of interjecting for a moment have paid off.
- murderfs 4y agoYeah, except for the whole steam part of it, which includes the input stack. You can build far more of ChromeOS from open source than SteamOS.
- hot_gril 4y agoFor now, you can draw the line for what he means at GNU since SteamOS is that while ChromeOS is not. But if someone made a GNU/Linux that holds your hand everywhere like ChromeOS, it would probably be "not real Linux." So maybe the better designation is "Linux for nerds."