Re: Even Lenovo's Getting Into The Act, Pt 2

Am 10.01.25 um 18:45 schrieb Spalls Hurgenson:

Now, technically, you/can/ run SteamOS on your desktop today; if not
the official version, then near-clones of the OS like Bazzite and
others. The problem is, these distros are all very AMD biased, with
poor support for Nvidia. This isn't entirely the fault of the distros
--or SteamOS, for that matter-- as Nvidia has been extremely petty
with open-sourcing its drivers. GeForce support has been a rough spot
for all Linux distros. But if SteamOS starts getting wider-spread
adoption, the hope is that Nvidia might be forced to reconsider its
policy.

Basically you just need to run any linux distro which supports your hardware really well in wayland and push steam in big picture mode on top of it.
SteamOS is basically just like that, it is a stripped down linux driver wise which runs steam on top and uses proton (which comes with any steam linux installation anyway) in wayland!
The funny side is that you even have to switch to desktop mode to add third party games to your steam lib, Valve still has not added this feature yet to the big picture mode!
What I described is basically just what those third party "Steamos like" distros do they just integrate the ideas and the puzzle pieces valve has layed out themseves instead of letting Valve doing it!
As for steamos, many expect a revival of the idea of Steam machines next year and also a new model of the steam controller. I am really looking forward to both, especially the next Steam Controller, because Valve really has ironed out the deficits the first model had. As for a new Steam machine, it just will be some kind of generic embedded AMD based pc running steamos on top, nothing you cannot do with standard hardware already! But I guess this time they might be more successfull, they already have an established user base by the Steam deck and Steamos is nowadays miles better than it was with the first iteration, also small formfactor pcs are way cheaper now and also way more powerful!