We know that official support for the Ally is coming, so this could be considered a preview of what that will be like.
Rog ally was an idea at the time I was buying my deck. People told me I should get it instead because it was more popular and ran windows so it would be directly supported by games. I’m so glad I did not buy into that, the oled deck is fantastic. My hands go numb playing it, or watching movies. Sure put steamos on the Ally, but…
because it was more popular
Meanwhile the Deck is outselling all other handheld PCs combined
What’s wild is that there are people who bought the Steam Deck and immediately put Windows on it. Didn’t even try SteamOS.
I mean “real SteamOS” has always been available. It was just never tailored to those devices.
And even the OG SteamOS is just a flavor of Arch that is immutable
As well, Bazzite is for all intents and purposes just SteamOS with support for other handhelds. It runs the exact same gamemode package that the Deck does.
Bazzite is awesome, have been using it on my main laptop for over 6 months now.
It’s slightly different than SteamOS as it’s immutable Fedora rather than Arch. But with distrobox, none of that really matters anyway.
It’s slightly different than SteamOS as it’s immutable Fedora rather than Arch.
I have yet to try Bazzite myself but as I see it, for the average user both are essentially the same, no? Launches into Steam Game Mode and Desktop Mode is the same Plasma desktop with Discover they read about in tutorials, right?
Yeah I do understand the differences, that’s why I said they are essentially the same, because to a less tech-inclined end-user they function in the same way.
I dunno, I guess I just don’t super understand the hype around SteamOS coming to desktop. I do get the excitement for OEM devices with it though.
I was just adding to your comment, I wasn’t trying to correct you or anything…
I always like to boost bazzite when I see it, because it really is great and more people should try it.
Oh, sorry if I came across like I thought you were correcting me. I’m just, it’s been a big day, maybe I shouldn’t be commenting on the internet 😅
No worries
Bazzite is great but people are going to be far more likely to install SteamOS just because it’s Steam.
