Pretty exciting times ahead as Valve might finally release SteamOS to more hardware. This amount of Linux desktop coverage would be unimaginable few years ago.

  • @[email protected]English
    7•18 hours ago

    SteamOS is going to have to do a lot of heavy lifting. I reckon there are quite a few people who are waiting for its release before trying Linux.

    Does SteamOS even have functional desktop, or is it just Steam big picture wrapper thing?

    • @[email protected]
      6•16 hours ago

      Yes, but it is also set up as an OS image.

      I think there is a process for persistence, but without some effort, changes are lost for OS updates.

      • skimmEnglish
        9•16 hours ago

        Changes aren’t lost on update. If you enable a sudo user/password, and make changes to the system that way, those changes can be lost when applying the new system image.

        Its an immutable Arch-based distro and you have full readwrite to your home directory and all config, settings, and files within persist.