Valve kind of pulled a George Foreman/nVidia and reused a lot of names to make things confusing.
SteamOS from the Steam Machines era is just another distro. I want to say that was a Debian?
SteamOS for the Steam Deck is Arch (?) and IS technically available and anyone can do whatever, but it is not really packaged for distribution and a lot of aspects of it are very specifically configured/set up for the Steam Deck.
I am not sure what the official line is on if another company wants to distribute (Arch) SteamOS with their device. But… unless GabeN himself is on a video twirling knives and talking about what a great partnership this is, I would consider that to be a negative. Because SteamOS for the Aya Neo Whatever is going to be a second class citizen, at best. And if the company thinks that is a viable option it does not bode well for their support and communication models.
Valve kind of pulled a George Foreman/nVidia and reused a lot of names to make things confusing.
SteamOS from the Steam Machines era is just another distro. I want to say that was a Debian?
SteamOS for the Steam Deck is Arch (?) and IS technically available and anyone can do whatever, but it is not really packaged for distribution and a lot of aspects of it are very specifically configured/set up for the Steam Deck.
I am not sure what the official line is on if another company wants to distribute (Arch) SteamOS with their device. But… unless GabeN himself is on a video twirling knives and talking about what a great partnership this is, I would consider that to be a negative. Because SteamOS for the Aya Neo Whatever is going to be a second class citizen, at best. And if the company thinks that is a viable option it does not bode well for their support and communication models.