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If they wanted to "make a splash" they could have released it 3 years ago. I don't know what they're waiting for. With the launch of Steam Machines it was made available to everyone on day 1.
It's not as simple as just releasing something. They need to develop it first, and making it a good experience with arbitrary hardware is actually pretty hard.
Not hard enough that it hasn't already been done for years by volunteers with zero budget.
There is no distro that supports arbitrary hardware as well as SteamOS supports the Steam Deck.
There are several.
Really? Which distro has a button I can press to open a menu to change the power budget on my Ryzen 5 5600? Which distro has everything configured for me to be able to use my VKB joysticks without needing to mess with the registry in the proton prefixes of Windows games?
Bazzite. Chimera. Nobara. HoloISO?
Lol, I'd be surprised if they could do either of those things, let alone both. I know Bazzite can't; I have it on my laptop and that shit can't even update itself properly.
Let's say it's not true, Valve can choose to release a distro that is mostly-complete and add additional features later or they can update it in secret for some strange reason while sitting on it...?
It's not simply "some strange reason". There will be a lot of press coverage when they release a desktop version so naturally they want it to be as good an experience as possible. They may not ever get another chance for that kind of coverage after all, and they wouldn't want SteamOS's reputation to be damaged (again) because it wasn't good enough for most people to use (again).
The other distros I already mentioned are already more than "good enough for most people to use". So I disagree.
Roflcopter, they can do both of those things.
Power levels are changed via the quick access menu and input options are configured via Steam input, which doesn't even have anything to do with the distro in question, it's part of the Steam client.
Steam input doesn't work with VKB joysticks, lol.
edit: figured out how to open the quick access menu on my laptop and I can't change my power levels. So yeah, as I suspected Bazzite can't do either of those things. I doubt any other distro can either.
They are actively monitoring for "HL3 confirmed" and adds a hour to the release time for each they find.
The current release date is in the year 252525.
That's dumb. The only technology in 252525 will be a rusty sword for practicing proctology.
You think that's bad, wait for the giraffes.
That won't be for another 747475,5 years, worry about that later.
I heard we don't even need our eyes by 4545 and in 5555 our arms are going to be limp. Guess the game is going to run all in our brains.
In the year 9595 I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive
Likely not tbh. At least not in any way we currently understand a human to be.