Were you not alive in 2013 when the first SteamOS released?
I was and I’m fairly confident it was never marketed as an “OS for everything”, not 10 years ago, not today, and not anywhere in between, but I’m open to being proven wrong.
I did not forget what I said, it is not “obvious af”, I am not trolling, and I understand English. I didn’t say anything that related to or contradicted your statement. Would you care to explain or will you just continue insulting me?
I was and I’m fairly confident it was never marketed as an “OS for everything”, not 10 years ago, not today, and not anywhere in between, but I’m open to being proven wrong.
Are you so pedantic you think when I say everything, I mean literally everything and not just, you know, a computer in general? It was built and marketed as a general OS with a focus on gaming, but also just as good for productivity.
Are you so pedantic you think when I say everything, I mean literally everything
I mean you did say literally everything, so yes. I did.
Yes, it is a general OS. The point was, as I said, it’s a gaming-first OS, with little thought going into the desktop experience beyond whatever is packaged by Arch and KDE. Whereas Bazzite has a number of optimizations for the desktop experience like the Bazaar appstore, several Gnome extensions prepakcaged, fractional scaling pre-configured, a GUI for installing some common gaming software, ujust commands for things like installing Davinci and Waydroid, etc. etc.
If you get Bazzite handheld option, it is functionally and visually indistinguishable from SteamOS. I’ve been using it on my living room gaming PC for years.
But y tho.
SteamOS is always going to be mostly single purpose. It’s going to be Vanilla Arch with their Steam Client and Gamescope compositor.
Bazzite is still gaming-focused but also functionality extends beyond the basics.
It literally originally started as an OS for everything, not purpose built for a single device. See: The original Steam Machines.
Valve has already said that the current iteration of SteamOS would become available to install on any machine eventually.
[citation needed]
I don’t know what that has to do with what I said.
Were you not alive in 2013 when the first SteamOS released?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SteamOS
Did you forget what you wrote in your previous comment? This should be obvious af if you’re not trolling.
I was and I’m fairly confident it was never marketed as an “OS for everything”, not 10 years ago, not today, and not anywhere in between, but I’m open to being proven wrong.
I did not forget what I said, it is not “obvious af”, I am not trolling, and I understand English. I didn’t say anything that related to or contradicted your statement. Would you care to explain or will you just continue insulting me?
Are you so pedantic you think when I say everything, I mean literally everything and not just, you know, a computer in general? It was built and marketed as a general OS with a focus on gaming, but also just as good for productivity.
I mean you did say literally everything, so yes. I did.
Yes, it is a general OS. The point was, as I said, it’s a gaming-first OS, with little thought going into the desktop experience beyond whatever is packaged by Arch and KDE. Whereas Bazzite has a number of optimizations for the desktop experience like the Bazaar appstore, several Gnome extensions prepakcaged, fractional scaling pre-configured, a GUI for installing some common gaming software, ujust commands for things like installing Davinci and Waydroid, etc. etc.
I get your point but my gaming PC is specifically for gaming. If I could make it “dumber” with a more console-like experience that’d be a win for me.
For productivity I have a MacBook that I’m quite fond of along with a nice desk and docking setup if that’s what I feel like. That isn’t going away.
If you get Bazzite handheld option, it is functionally and visually indistinguishable from SteamOS. I’ve been using it on my living room gaming PC for years.
I would imagine third parties going into making steam consoles. Something like what Android is at the moment.
They said “I can install on my own hardware”, and specifically mentioned Bazzite.