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I believe Valve is working on a SteamOS 3 image for general purpose PCs and confirmed it publicly, but we don’t know the release date.

by dangus 3y ago

lawlessone 3y ago
This is great news, have to say i love they keep taking whacks at it.
- dimitrios1 3y ago
  Just remember its not out of altruism. It's very beneficial to Valve to be able to eliminate their Windows dependency. I will say, it is good when incentives align for the benefit of the consumer.
  - r3trohack3r 3y ago
    That’s the point of markets. Three ways to get someone to do something: * make them love you * pay them * make them fear you Markets incentivize behavior that would otherwise require altruism or fear.
  - stavros 3y ago
    I don't think many people expect companies to do things out of altruism, but, as you say, we are happy when our interests and theirs align.
  - abtinf 3y ago
    > Just remember its not out of altruism. I’ve always been curious what point is being made when people say this. Care to expand on it?
    - dimitrios1 3y ago
      At least in my case, the point being made when I say "Just remember it's not out of altruism" is to remember that it's not out of altruism.
      - abtinf 3y ago
        Why is it important to be reminded of that?
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throw555chip 3y ago
If it's based on Arch (insane rolling release crap idea) then I won't be using it.
- opan 3y ago
  Of course it will be, that's what the Decks run now. They don't update in the same way or pace as regular Arch, though. pacman is basically disabled. You're encouraged to do everything through flatpak and appimage, and then the occasional blessed system update comes through for the other parts.
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- simoncion 3y ago
  I've been using Gentoo Linux (which is also a rolling-release distro) since the early 2000s (maybe 2002?). Even taking into account the libpng upgrade disaster in the early-to-mid 2000s, it's the most sane, most stable, least-trouble-free distro I've used. I've wanted to find some other good distro, but all the ones I've tried either a) Only ship ancient packages in their official repositories, requiring me to go to unofficial sources to get oh so many up-to-date versions of things. b) Inevitably do something pants-on-head retarded as part of normal operation (nearly always during upgrades) and require me to bust out my Linux sysadmin skills to unwedge the system or (sometimes) both "a)" and "b)". You don't like rolling-release distros? That's fine, more power to you. They've been working fine for me for (oh dear god, I'm so old) ~20 years.
  - account42 3y ago
    Gentoo stable (aka not ~arch) might be rolling release but can also be surprisingly conservative, often getting new versions even after Debian stable. Gentoo testing (aka ~arch) does come with occasional surprises (although most common is some package update failing to build) but still worth it compared to having to deal with big updates or even reinstalls.
    - 3y ago

I believe Valve is working on a SteamOS 3 image for general purpose PCs and confirmed it publicly, but we don’t know the release date.

by dangus 3y ago

I believe Valve is working on a SteamOS 3 image for general purpose PCs and confirmed it publicly, but we don’t know the release date.

lawlessone 3y ago

This is great news, have to say i love they keep taking whacks at it.

dimitrios1 3y ago
Just remember its not out of altruism. It's very beneficial to Valve to be able to eliminate their Windows dependency. I will say, it is good when incentives align for the benefit of the consumer.
- r3trohack3r 3y ago
  That’s the point of markets. Three ways to get someone to do something: * make them love you * pay them * make them fear you Markets incentivize behavior that would otherwise require altruism or fear.
- stavros 3y ago
  I don't think many people expect companies to do things out of altruism, but, as you say, we are happy when our interests and theirs align.
- abtinf 3y ago
  > Just remember its not out of altruism. I’ve always been curious what point is being made when people say this. Care to expand on it?
  - dimitrios1 3y ago
    At least in my case, the point being made when I say "Just remember it's not out of altruism" is to remember that it's not out of altruism.
    - abtinf 3y ago
      Why is it important to be reminded of that?
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throw555chip 3y ago

If it's based on Arch (insane rolling release crap idea) then I won't be using it.

opan 3y ago
Of course it will be, that's what the Decks run now. They don't update in the same way or pace as regular Arch, though. pacman is basically disabled. You're encouraged to do everything through flatpak and appimage, and then the occasional blessed system update comes through for the other parts.
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simoncion 3y ago
I've been using Gentoo Linux (which is also a rolling-release distro) since the early 2000s (maybe 2002?). Even taking into account the libpng upgrade disaster in the early-to-mid 2000s, it's the most sane, most stable, least-trouble-free distro I've used. I've wanted to find some other good distro, but all the ones I've tried either a) Only ship ancient packages in their official repositories, requiring me to go to unofficial sources to get oh so many up-to-date versions of things. b) Inevitably do something pants-on-head retarded as part of normal operation (nearly always during upgrades) and require me to bust out my Linux sysadmin skills to unwedge the system or (sometimes) both "a)" and "b)". You don't like rolling-release distros? That's fine, more power to you. They've been working fine for me for (oh dear god, I'm so old) ~20 years.
- account42 3y ago
  Gentoo stable (aka not ~arch) might be rolling release but can also be surprisingly conservative, often getting new versions even after Debian stable. Gentoo testing (aka ~arch) does come with occasional surprises (although most common is some package update failing to build) but still worth it compared to having to deal with big updates or even reinstalls.
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