Here come the Chinese clone devices all with steam os on them
Weren’t Chinese companies like GPD pioneers of handhelds?
Valve has always “let you” install SteamOS on anything you want – it’s copyleft software; they don’t have a choice.
What’s different now is that Valve will be facilitating you to do it by packaging the software in a less Steam Deck-specific way to make it easier.
I realize some might think this is a pedantic distinction, but it’s not okay for the media to disparage Free Software by ascribing more authority to Valve than it actually has.
That’s not true. It’s not all free software. The distribution of it certainly isn’t free even if most of the individual pieces are.
My distro containing emacs doesn’t make the distribution itself free software, it just contains some free software. Similar to how emacs being on Windows doesn’t make Windows free software.
Steam OS is a higher percentage of free software than Windows, but it is not exclusively free software. The SteamOS trademark is also not free to use without authorization.
This is not disparaging free software, you’re making drama where there need not be any.
Not to even mention valve is just flagrantly violating open source licenses. They’ve patched things like sddm to support the steamdecks specific gameplay style login screen but those patches are not public. At one point I tried installing an alternative mutable os but a lot of functionality was just broken because of things like this.
I wonder if this will fix some of the built in controller issues (where the ROG Ally/x built in controls are considered 5-6 different controllers).
That’s really a driver issue from the manufacturer. If ASUS wanted, they could have pushed a proper kernel driver a long time ago. They bet on Windows for some reason though 🤷
It’s the same way on the original Legion Go from Lenovo.
Same deal. They’re now switching to SteamOS, so will have kernel drivers soon.
