Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.xs3.de!ereborbbs.duckdns.org!pyrite!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: kyonshi Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: SteamOS expanding to other PC Handhelds Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 12:37:07 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Fool's Gold Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: c3066ed76bae8bcc0e476efb157ff758 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 12:37:07 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: pyrite.ereborbbs.duckdns.org; logging-data="3192"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@pyrite.ereborbbs.duckdns.org" User-Agent: Pan/0.154 (Izium; 517acf4) Bytes: 3502 Lines: 51 On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 11:54:35 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: > On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 12:27:25 +0200, "Werner P." wrote: > >>Am 15.08.24 um 01:56 schrieb Spalls Hurgenson: >>> >>> SteamOS, the operating system that runs on Valve's own handheld PC, >>> the SteamDeck, will soon be available* on other similar systems, such >>> as the ASUS ROG Ally. >> >> >>> Maybe one day. In the meantime, this move by Valve is a welcome step. >>> >>> >>> >>I have a SteamDeck myself, SteamOs nowadays is really nice. It slowly >>comes together what Valve had planned from the beginnning. It is a >>backup option for them if Microsoft pulls the plug and closes windows >>off. >>Most of my games run without a hitch nowadays, but bear in mind that I >>only play single player games. >> >> > It was actually a stated plan for years, ever since Windows 8. There was > a great deal of nervousness on the part of Valve --and other vendors-- > that the inclusion of an 'app store' in Windows 8 would give Microsoft > unrivalled control over how and where people purchased or otherwise > acquired and installed applications (and games). After all, you only had > to look at the dominance Microsoft's own Internet Explorer had over the > market (at the time) to see how the majority of people just stuck with > the OS defaults over using something else. Funnily enough despite the fact that most Linux distros had their own version of a graphical software center for years MS never managed to properly integrate stuff the same way. The Ubuntu software center was amazing in the early versions of Ubuntu. But the Windows 8 software center felt like an unused appendage. > There is less of a concern of Microsoft locking down their OS these > days; if anything, it seems more and more likely that in the future MS > may actually switch to a Linux-variant and focus on cloud-based services > rather than OS sales as their primary revenue stream. But whatever the > future, Valve is making moves to remain relevant in the marketplace by > creating services and products that are too popular and useful amongst > its customers for other companies to ignore. I have been wondering the same. Windows seems more and more like a red- headed step sibling to MS. It just isn't the moneymaker anymore, an development likely is too expensive for not enough gain. The rest of the world runs on unixoid systems, and stuff like that is slowly creeping into Windows proper (see: the new Sudo for Windows function)