The recent news that SteamOS may soon be shipped with third-party devices could be particularly important for Linux gaming on desktops.

Even gamers nexus’ Steve today said that they’re about to start doing Linux games performance testing soon. It’s happening, y’all, the year of the Linux desktop is upon us. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

Edit: just wanted to clarify that Steve from GN didn’t precisely say they’re starting to test soon, he said they will start WHEN the steam OS releases and is adopted. Sorry about that.

  • Biorix@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Because it’s open source and based on the Linux kernel. It’s owned by them but you can do what you want with it. You can’t with Windows.

    So if a game works on the Steam OS, it works on pretty much any distro

    I game with Steam on Linux, but I’m not using Steam OS

    Also, that means that every effort made by Valve to improve compatibility is beneficial to everyone.

    Edit: Also, even if it were closed source, I think it would still be good as it gives us alternatives to Windows. But