News Valve publishes Powered by SteamOS brand guidelines — logo readied for third-party hardware bundled with this Linux-based OS

[Admin]

Valve has published branding guidelines which make its intentions to deliver SteamOS 3 to a wide range of third party hardware platforms clearer than ever.

Valve publishes Powered by SteamOS brand guidelines — logo readied for third-party hardware bundled with this Linux-based OS : Read more

 

[Lucky_SLS]

this is great news!

 

[SocDriver]

I wonder if this is only for partners they bring on for SteamOS or if they plan to do a general release of SteamOS for enthusiasts to install on their computers? I would 100% replace OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on my portable gaming system with SteamOS.

 

[purple_dragon]

I wonder if this is only for partners they bring on for SteamOS or if they plan to do a general release of SteamOS for enthusiasts to install on their computers? I would 100% replace OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on my portable gaming system with SteamOS.

If SteamOS is release as a standalone I will gladly use it over Windows if ant-icheat works. I like playing COD, AoE and other single player games but everything comes with forced malware anymore which makes playing on linux a real hassle.

 

[TJ Hooker]

I wonder if this is only for partners they bring on for SteamOS or if they plan to do a general release of SteamOS for enthusiasts to install on their computers? I would 100% replace OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on my portable gaming system with SteamOS.

If SteamOS is release as a standalone I will gladly use it over Windows if ant-icheat works. I like playing COD, AoE and other single player games but everything comes with forced malware anymore which makes playing on linux a real hassle.

SteamOS has been available for anyone to download/install for a decade already...

Everything you need to know to install SteamOS on your very own computer

Valve’s Linux-based gaming OS isn’t hard to get going, if you mind the pitfalls.

arstechnica.com

Edit: Ah, looks like there is no official PC release of SteamOS 3.0 (the version that debuted with steam deck), and the older versions are no longer being updated.

 

[ekio]

SteamOS has a full logo and branding guideline... but no website... other than a crappy, obsolete and incomplete page on steampowered.com.


The priorities in Valve's world....

 

[edzieba]

SteamOS has been available for anyone to download/install for over a decade...

Everything you need to know to install SteamOS on your very own computer

Valve’s Linux-based gaming OS isn’t hard to get going, if you mind the pitfalls.

arstechnica.com

Kiiiiinda. SteamOS 3.0, the one the Steam Deck is actually running (2.0 came out in 2014), is pretty much Steam Desk only. The "install on your own stuff" SteamOS is very dead:

SteamOS version 1 'alchemist' and version 2 'brewmaster' have been
discontinued. No further updates are planned.

The SteamOS 'clockwerk' prototype has also been discontinued and will
not be released.

SteamOS version 3 'holo', as used on the Steam Deck, is a separate
codebase based on Arch Linux packages and does not use this apt
repository.

SteamOS 3.0 AKA 'Holo' is only available as a smattering of random sources rather than a unified build you can actually do anything with, and is nonfunctional on anything other than the Steam Desk. HoloISO is a community project that massages some of those packages into something that kinda works on a limited selection of other devices (e.g. AMD GPUs only) and is built around the Steam Deck UI (so assuming you're using a handheld with a touchscreen).

 

[tommo1982]

Hmm, no go on testing it on my HTPC then.
Steam works fine on Mint and RX570. I don't think Valve sees the reason to release SteamOS for Desktop then.

 

[usertests]

I wonder if this is only for partners they bring on for SteamOS or if they plan to do a general release of SteamOS for enthusiasts to install on their computers? I would 100% replace OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on my portable gaming system with SteamOS.

People are already installing HoloISO, Bazzite, etc.

I think Valve doesn't want to make SteamOS 3 official before they get it working on Nvidia dGPUs which are the vast majority out there. Given that they added DLSS3 support recently, they are moving towards that.

 

[ezst036]

I wish Valve would release SteamOS 3 official.