• Avid Amoeba
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    3 months ago

    Valve is doing this? Not Android since 2008?

    Heck we know people don’t give a shit what’s under the covers since at least the switch between Windows 98 and 2000/XP, the latter being a very different OS. It could have been BSD or Linux and people wouldn’t have bat an eye if the start menu looked the same and Word, Corel Draw, Photoshop and AutoCAD worked.

    • @[email protected]
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      193 months ago

      Android is not (really) a desktop OS. Devices with preconfigured locked-up Linux installations have been around way before that, mainly networking equipment.

        • @[email protected]
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          213 months ago

          SteamOS is not locked, and at any point can can be set to desktop mode and used as one. Unlike android which has no compatibility with other Linux desktop apps without a fair bit of tinkering to get working.

        • @Sabin10
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          73 months ago

          I take it you’ve never used a steam deck