Valve confirms it'll support the ROG Ally with its Steam Deck operating system
Valve confirms it'll support the ROG Ally with its Steam Deck operating system
Dual boot is still on the menu, too.
I'm not convinced that the ROG Ally is designed as well as the Steam Deck, and I'm less than impressed with Asus in recent years, but I do love open systems. This seems like a good move for Steam OS.
It will sell more games, and that's Valve's long term plan.
85If it means more Linux support, then sign me up!
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Final the age of linux gaming.
22Same. I didn't mean it cynically, just a statement of fact why they would be doing it.
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Huh was not expecting that. How much work is it?
12It’s not unexpected at all. Throwing in some drivers and whatnot is trivial compared to what Valve has already done with their OS. This
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11Pulling people into their software ecosystem with a good user experience only helps them, after all.
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It should be a very smooth development and install since it's a known set of hardware.
8Is your question about the task for the end user? If all works well, it might take as long as installing a new operating system on any other device. Maybe half an hour give or take.
4It's still being worked on at Valve
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SteamOS isnt really open given its got a whole bunch of unreleased patched open source software (probably in violation of Foss licenses) but always good to have more linux friendly handhelds.
12Hell yeah let's fucking go
8Good move on valve
5INTERESTING
4I think this was their plan all along. Maybe it wasn't, in any case I was sure it wouldn't be long until we see SteamOS (or something like Bazzite, which is already here I don't know how functional it is) on these things. Why you would advertise Windows on a handheld PC I didn't get at all. The certain titles you are only able to play on Windows (bc poor support or anti-cheat etc etc) usually aren't games you would play on a mobile device anyway.
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