SteamOS could see a general distribution release, work with other handheld gaming PCs soon

webghost0101 , 4 hours ago

This would be huge and a big step to single purchase ownership.

One of my biggest griped with the modern state of gaming is how purchases are platform based.

Minecraft pe doesn’t transfer between ios and android yet on pc all my games work on linux the same as windows.

Once we have the power to load the OS where we have acces to our library publishers will rush to make sure their platform gets that access.

Valve really appears as the woke gaming authority that single handed progresses the industry. Someone link a source if that perception is wrong.

BlackLaZoR , 3 hours ago

Valve really appears as the woke gaming authority that single handed progresses the industry

Nah, they just have a software platform instead of hardware one

hohoho , 3 hours ago

The ideal platform will be hardware agnostic

BlackLaZoR , 3 hours ago

It would need to be open-source and using only open APIs when talking to the system. This isn't happening any time soon

savvywolf , 2 hours ago

Isn’t that just OpenGL/Vulcan and Linux?

woelkchen , 1 hour ago

It would need to be open-source and using only open APIs when talking to the system. This isn’t happening any time soon

You’re describing Java which is open source since 2007.

constancies , 4 hours ago

Hopefully it’s for real this time. This is gonna be great!

Gormadt , 3 hours ago

I’d love to see it for sure

I keep hearing good things about it

hperrin , 2 hours ago

They did promise that like 3 years ago.

ElectroLisa , 30 minutes ago

3?!? Geez my perception of time is so skewed

ganoo , 2 hours ago

Hopefully there’s some level of encryption possible.