I want to get some experience with Linux before win 10 goes end of support. I won’t be using this machine for work. Gaming primarily but also 3d printing and possibly some light piracy. Is there any reason not to install steam os?
Thanks in advance kind and wise nerds in my phone.
off steamdeck its supported as much as most linux distros. It existed for a long time before the steamdeck.
SteamOS prior to steamdeck is an entirely different distribution FYI
like older. its optimized for steamdeck but its not like they made it less capable overall. At least that I know of. Like if steamdeck did not exist I don’t think the current version would be more capable on other hardware but it would lack some stuff that gets it to run better on steamdeck.
No, I mean it was debian based. When Steam Deck released, they moved to being an immutable arch based distribution instead.
It also isn’t currently made available for install outside of the Steam Deck yet.
there is tow versions is all now. https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown
"NOTE: This image is not compatible with Steam Deck. "
That is the old distribution based on Debian 8, which stopped receiving LTS updates in June 2020. You should switch to something else unless the system isn’t connected to the internet.
https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/
holy crap. I am totally in the wrong here. I did not realize the core was that out of date. I actually just have steam installed on another distro which I think steamos does not really add any benefit for but I had thought at times about installing the os thinking it would kept up to date.
It’s not “the core”. It’s simply an outdated distro that’s not used nor maintained anymore. It was used for the Steam Machines, their attempt at a console-like PC, which failed to garner enough interest. Current Steam Deck’s Steam OS is a completely different system and has nothing to do with this one.
yeah I was not using core in any official way just to mean what it was based on. I had no idea it was so abandoned.