Tobias Frisch@boilingsteam I think the most important aspect whether SteamOS is ready for general desktop adaption is the state of NVK, isn't it? I mean Valve certainly does not want to ship proprietary drivers, they don't have full control over to improve game compatibility, right?
MudMan@thejackimonster @boilingsteam
To that point, there are already a few widely available unofficial versions of "Steam Big Picture running over another distro", which is pretty much all SteamOS is. If the only difference between official SOS and Bazzite or Chimera OS is that Valve is making it, rather than having additional compatibility/features the community can't match, then what's the point?
@MudMan @boilingsteam You have to look at it from a companies perspective. If Valve makes the distribution, they are officially offering support for game compatibility and a reliable experience.
I personally don't think you are getting a worse experience with similar distributions. But I'm also not the audience. The main audience for SteamOS are Windows users who are still skeptical when it comes to Linux or open-source development.
@thejackimonster @boilingsteam Well, you literally aren't getting a worse experience. I've installed Bazzite on a Legion Go, just because I expected it to be a nuisance with the nonstandard controllers and it isn't, there is specific support for it and it works. I'd argue that it's easier to get that to dual boot than a Steam Deck, by some margin.
But that's with a very similar AMD APU. The tricky bit is deploying on laptops with Nvidia dGPUs and other, further removed use cases.