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.
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.