• xavier666@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    Things which are holding this back

    • Collaboration with OEMs to provide SteamOS OTTB (Lenovo is an exception)
    • Nvidia support. Most gamers use Nvidia GPU unfortunately
    • Certain industry-standard software which don’t have a Linux port. PSA: Most people don’t want to learn alt software. Johnny Mainstream is scared of new softwares. This cannot be changed
    • End-users suffer from choice paralysis and Linux offers endless choice. Maybe SteamOS can help.

    What we know so far, SteamOS won’t be a general purpose OS, so it might not support every random piece of h/w.

    We might not have the year of the Linux Desktop, but we can expect 2025-2026 to be the year of the Linux handheld.

    SRC: Linux fanboy for the last decade