• Hominine@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The temerity to repeat ‘soon’ for well over a year is one of Valve’s worst traits. One wonders if reflexively lying to customers is intentionally baked into their culture.

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      1 year ago

      Honestly, what would you get out of SteamOS on PC anyway? Just install Linux, set up the drivers you need, launch Steam at startup, and default it to Big Picture Mode.

      Boom, SteamOS.

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          I dunno but I tried that and it didn’t work at all. Had to go searching around online for how to even install a damn game.

          Just for shits and giggles I fired up a VM and did a clean Steam installation from Flathub. This is the default:

          Steam Play (=Proton) is on for supported Windows games. For unsupported games it’s off.

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          Had to go searching around online for how to even install a damn game.

          Wait, you had so much trouble to look if the “Enable Steam Play” checkbox was ticked? 🙄

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              Yet another person missing the point 🤦

              Nah, we all get the point. You claim that Steam does not come with Proton on regular Linux distributions but you’re wrong which is an easily googlable fact you continue to deny. If your installation of Steam is somehow broken, that’s specific to you. At most the “Enable Steam Play” checkbox has to be ticked in Steam’s settings.

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      1 year ago

      I think Valve has good intentions and wants a lot of things done soon, but they just don’t have enough people on their Steam Deck team to get things done at the speed they want.

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        Yeah, and that’s probably why development for 3.5 has also been this slow. They were busy with the OLED model

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        1 year ago

        Your guess has the right feel for me too. A lot of people were hungry for OLED and this is the trade off.
        I’m just ready for Linux to grow. Maybe it is naive to think that one distro will carry us much further but with the proper solution I can easily imagine a lot of people dual booting their PCs soon.