Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(
On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 8:30 AM Hanno 'Rince' Wagner wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jul 2021, Paul Wise wrote:
>
> > Valve have said that this will be an open device that any OS can be
> > installed on, just like on PCs, they even mentioned Windows so
> > presumably it will be able to run Debian amd64 too if Valve are
> > mainlining Linux hardware support.
>
> do we have a direct contact to steam regarding this? since I was able
> to order one of these devices, I'd be interested in hearing wether
> they will maintain the hardware support and would only have to add
> their sources in apts repository.
IIRC I heard it in one of these two IGN videos about the Steam Deck:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLtiRGTZvGM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9eihvhM_KE
> if we do not have this communication (yet), I'd offer trying to start
> such a conversation with Valve.
Please do. IIRC they have been good about upstreaming their work on
Wine/Proton so I would be surprised if they didn't do that for Linux
support. So eventually you could skip using Arch Linux SteamOS and
switch to Debian.
BTW, the Valve Arch Linux overlay thing appears to be here:
https://repo.steampowered.com/arch/valveaur/
The old Debian repos are on the same domain too:
https://repo.steampowered.com/
--
bye,
pabs
https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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