It’s not really enshittification when “Google reads your mail” has been the entire point since the launch of GMail. Relevant ads, grouping mails into topics, find spam, etc. has always been the selling point of GMail.

Sounds like they’re leaving the option open for Android developers to make their APK distributions compatible with Steam to play on Frame.

It was first reported months ago that Valve is involved with Waydroid (Android app compatibility for Linux with Wayland) and then at the Frame announcement confirmed to ship on Frame.

This could also potentially mean that Steam itself comes to Android (at least in the EU) to allow cross-buy and cross-progression.

Google is developing a Linux runtime for Android, Valve are making an ARM version of Steam, so it could be usable but I don’t think it’ll light the world on fire.

I didn’t know games could choose to be made by new developers

No, game’s aren’t alive and cannot choose anything. The higher-ups at publisher and IP owner Paradox Interactive can, however.

Usually these things happen at Microsoft when they shut down studios, like what happened with Essemble Studios (Age of Empires, Halo Wars) and Double Helix Games (Killer Instinct).

So not “on purpose”

Inventing and implementing non-standard protocol messages to initiate the display is 100% on purpose. It would be easier to just source an off the shelf board and merely design casing around it.

Steam web and the readme in the repo says Ubuntu is a requirement

Yeah, when their own documents don’t even mention Steam Deck or SteamOS, you can just conclude that these are yet another pieces of text that have not been brought up to date by editors, especially when the website still lists Unity as supported desktop. Keeping support documents up to date is just one of the things Valve sucks at.

The readme in that repo says the same

No, it doesn’t. It lists Ubuntu under the requirements section but under https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux?tab=readme-ov-file#reporting-issues it does not say that issues for all distributions are being rejected. It especially does not mention Unity desktop support which is a clear indicator of the page’s age.

That’s like saying that the year of Linux came when Android release.

It’s usually “Year of the Linux Desktop” and Android is a mobile platform, not a desktop OS.

it’s a bastardized monster clone of the original.

Android developments did benefit areas like power saving, so why the hate. Android is no GNU/Linux because of the lack of glibc.

MacOS is “Unix” in paid certification dollars only.

macOS, the Darwin layer specifically, is totally a BSD. Even with the Mach bits in the kernel because Mach itself is derived from BSD.

Homebrew could provide their own casks of FOSS applications, compiled on their infrastructure and signed by their key. It’s kinda what F-Droid does on phones.

That text box is obviously a leftover from the before times. Some pages on Steam’s website don’t get updated for ages. It’s not great but not news either. Only the reality at https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues counts in this case.

The steam client is only officially supported on Ubuntu and only using KDE, Gnome or Unity.

No. They offer a .deb package but repackaging and redistribution is allowed.

Valve’s support team won’t check issues on any other Linux setup.

That’s false. I guess you never actually reported a bug on their Github page. Here is a random bug report from Steam on Fedora installed from RPMFusion with a Valve developer asking for details instead of closing the issue for being unsupported: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/12422

Imagine if they made SteamOS free.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/65B4-2AA3-5F37-4227

https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/download

id love to rid my pc of the bloat of Windows

You can install and use Linux since ages. SteamOS is just regular Linux but without NVidia drivers.

I’ve seen a lot of folks waiting for this to make the switch, it’s silly but having a familiar name attached to it gives them a sense of comfort, and SteamOS is solid for what it is.

And should they be not native English speakers, they’ll wonder why the desktop is only in English, why they can’t even check the spelling of their native language. Or why playback of WebM videos glitches.

I really like my Steam Deck and actually use it as desktop PC from time to time but you can tell desktop mode is an afterthought. Traditional Linux distributions are actually a better choice for regular users. Valve luckily open sources and upstreams everything of SteamOS other than the actual Steam client, so it’s not like SteamOS has some special sauce nobody else gets.

I have to rely on scalpers or stores who sell it for triple it’s value. I want the controller

The 8bitdo Ultimate 2 series of controllers are fine pieces of hardware. Yes, they don’t have the trackpads but they have TMR sticks (probably the very same model as Steam Controller 2) and they are even compatible game consoles.

The biggest problem is that there are four very similarly named controllers (“Bluetooth” is the highest end and compatible with all BT devices even phones) but that’s it. No need to throw money at scalpers if good alternatives exist.

PS: If it behaves like Steam Deck’s controller, it’ll be useless without Steam running and merely acting as mouse.

Year of the BSD when?

When Mac OS X launched?

When iPhone launched?

When PlayStation 4 launched?

A friend of mine buys every Pokemon game and described this (tounge on cheek) as a compulsive mental illness of theirs.

They don’t use Steam forums either: https://forums.playdeadlock.com/

That looks like Bazzite Desktop with a different name. Even the contributors overlap.

FAQ says: “Bazzite, Bluefin, and Aurora all came in at different times, the result of organic growth. Don’t overthink it” … Very helpful.

Most people first installing Linux will dual boot to try it out first before fully committing

Good look having a newbie set up a dual boot system in times of BitLocker. Chances are they end up with single boot Linux because they cannot downsize the encrypted Windows partitions.