I don’t get it.

I tried Alpha 1 and it was completely unusable

You mean like an alpha version?

Yeah, now idea how news sites and people claim this is somehow news.

Das Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht will eine Unterwanderung von rechts vermeiden.

Ach, dann ist ja gut. Man stelle sich vor, die Partei wäre auf einmal gegen Ausländer und würde sich zum Bückstück für Faschisten machen…

I wish some company that wasn’t a giant asshole was working on these type devices.

The research behind such tech will proliferate no matter ho invented it first. People will be hired by other companies, they’ll apply whatever they learned, using different techniques. Specific techniques can be patented, the experience people gained cannot.

Orion combines the look and feel of a regular pair of glasses

Ah yes, “the look and feel of a regular pair of glasses”:

There’s more hardware in a notebook than just the CPU. It’s pointless without network and GPU drivers, for example. Also the ARM DeviceTree stuff is BS.

Full fledged SteamOS desktop release when?

Maybe never. If I was at Valve, I would not want to open Pandora’s box of NVidia drivers.

This would make a lot of sense if valve plan on releasing new iteration of their handheld.

It makes more sense that for the immediate future this is for ARM Chromebooks. Steam for Chromebooks currently only works with x86 CPUs. For the longer term, all kinds of options open up because of this, of course.

I want to understand where the price justification is

The justification is that people should be yearly subscribers when they can more easily forget to cancel it.

A few minutes at 70°C is enough to kill germs. The dough stays uncooked. Obviously that needs to be controlled. Somehow I doubt they stuck a thermometer in there.

SUPPORTED STEAM GAMES MEANS THEY’RE LOOKING AT ARM CHIP SUPPORT SPECIFICALLY TO SATISFY MY DESIRE TO PLAY 1 SPECIFIC GAME ON MY PHONE BECAUSE IT’S REALLY FUCKIN GOOD

In all seriousness, there is a decent chance that as a byproduct, Steam on “regular” ARM Linux will run as well, meaning even stuff like RaspberryPi and PinePhone.

x86 emulation on ARM is likely foremost about expanding Chromebook support as currently only x86 Chromebooks can use Steam. Android emulation is probably about getting Oculus/Quest games on the in-development stand-alone VR headset.

Nothing points to Steam games on mobile phones.

steam games on android?

No, Android games on SteamOS.

ANDROID??? can we play Triple AAA games on android that would be soo fire

You have it the wrong way around. It’s about Android games on SteamOS. Oculus/Quest runs a variant of Android, it just makes sense to have a Proton-style porting aid for Quest games on SteamOS.

Oh no

Internet surfing

Forget web browsing with 4GB RAM. You can completely disregard the comments recommending a “lite DE” when merely opening a modern web site will put the whole PC into crawling. The 150 MB more or less for different desktops are completely irrelevant then.

The best “newbie friendly” distribution is just plain Fedora Workstation but with only 4GB RAM it will be a pain to use no matter what.

Edit: If you’re a KDE user yourself, you’re best equipped to answer KDE-related questions.

Any way to break down that “Other” and see what it contains?

No, not without lobbying Valve.

there might be some more Ubuntu versions hiding in there.

Certainly because non-LTS versions are not in the main table as well but neither are Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, NixOS, etc.

I looked at the August 2024 results and SteamOS was not mentioned anywhere in the OS version section.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey?platform=linux

Probably because everybody with a Steam Desk shows up as Arch in the survey.

Had you looked up the current stats, you would have known that this is completely false. SteamOS is in massive lead and I used the phrase “general purpose distribution” for a reason.