alt Hacker NewsSteamDeck should be excluded from “Linux use” imho. Especially when it comes to click bait headlines.
Like yes it is Linux. But SteamDeck is a completely different beast from desktop Linux. They might as well be entirely different OS’s. Especially if the SteamDeck is being used to play Win32 binaries!
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Try it. Switch to desktop mode. Behold! A desktop linux!
SteamOS is so very much linux that even WebOS and Androids pale in comparisom.
SteamOS is just steam big picture mode by default on an arch linux. You can switch to a regular KDE in one click
SteamOS is really a desktop linux. You can switch to "desktop mode" to see the "normal desktop" and you get a KDE where you can run whatever you want.
It's "just" immutable Arch that defaults to Steam's console mode interface.
SteamOS is just an immutable Arch, and all Steam Linux games use the Steam Linux container runtime or Proton.
Bazzite and a few others provide a similar console-style experience.
you can just navigate to the full linux desktop on the steamdeck?
>completely different beast from desktop Linux
Absolutely not. If you ever actually used it you would know that the only difference is a custom big picture mode like interface. Anything else is literally the same code.
> Like yes it is Linux. But SteamDeck is a completely different beast from desktop Linux. They might as well be entirely different OS’s.
It's really not; SteamOS is just another GNU/Linux, and pretty close to vanilla Arch Linux for that matter.
> Especially if the SteamDeck is being used to play Win32 binaries!
Proton works fine on other distros.