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Wasn't SteamOS around long before the Steam Deck? I remember Valve releasing their custom Linux distro back when they were promoting the "Steam Machine" concep
by Gormo 2y ago
Wasn't SteamOS around long before the Steam Deck? I remember Valve releasing their custom Linux distro back when they were promoting the "Steam Machine" concept.
- saidinesh5 2y agoBack then it could only run Linux native games... I'm not sure if their old steam OS version even integrated Proton properly back then. The current version (Steam OS 3) is rebuilt from scratch and there are a lot of under the hood changes...
- diggan 2y ago> if their old steam OS version even integrated Proton properly back then. "Proton" wasn't even a thing that existed back then :)
- gpderetta 2y agoWine was a thing and you could run quite a few games, but it wasn't integrated at all: you had to run a separate win32 Steam instance under wine.
- diggan 2y agoIndeed, and as a person who always wanted to game on my Linux boxes, it wasn't (still isn't) nearly as good of an experience as Proton, even though Proton is just Wine+patches+other goodies. > you had to run a separate win32 Steam instance under wine. If I remember my trying days during that period, all the Steam games you ran that way (unless hacked around) also shared the same Wine prefix, with all the fun stuff that comes with...
- gpderetta 2y agoIndeed. Having to share wine prefixes (or having multiple Steam installs) was a problem. I don't think I bothered running more than a game or two. Proton also include DXVK and VKD3D which weren't a thing at that time (Wine had ok DX9 support, awful DX10/11 and non-existent DX12).
- puzzlingcaptcha 2y agoYes, but the original SteamOS was built on Debian 8 and ultimately failed to gain market share. Its website is still up https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown