All I really want is a context menu to open the game's Wine prefix directory.
this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2025
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I would love to see valve eventually have a whole team dedicated to their own OS and make it a super viable and stable distro.
Why would they do that when the community already does? - nothing valve is doing isnt already in Fedora/ublue or Arch, people who say they are going to switch when Valve puts out a general SteamOS image are just wasting time and procrastinating
OEM interoperability/functionality guarantee
The last big game dev holdouts will agree to target Linux if the PC userbase jumps significantly and Valve guarantees a standard expectation with technology with things like rolling kernel, latest libs, steam functionality, etc.
There's still a lot of stupidly annoying things that are missing like proper wayland (valve->frog) and its resultant features like HDR, VRR, etc.
The linux packaging problem from 20 years ago is still a problem (albeit much less) which Torvalds himself mentioned Valve would just say "screw it" and bypass/solve the problem via Steam (which they did). The issue is the remainder. Kernel updates are all over the place depending on distro. Everything Ubuntu is technically out of date because SteamOS uses Arch. Fedora gets you closer at least.
It's really just that OEM guarantee that would get it moving quicker. Although it might not even happen tbh, Valve said they weren't that interested in competing against Microsoft which makes sense because its still the primary OS of their customer base.
OEM interoperability/functionality guarantee
The last big game dev holdouts will agree to target Linux if the PC userbase jumps significantly and Valve guarantees a standard expectation with technology with things like rolling kernel, latest libs, steam functionality, etc.
A general image for SteamOS is not going to solve this. If you buy a PC from Dell and install SteamOS on it, there is no difference than if you installed Fedora. Secondly Valve is building from the the same sources as every other distro, if SteamOS supports it, every other distro does. In the cases of things like gamemode and gamescope, you can install these or they come with Bazzite and friends too, because Valve already devs these in the open with community and groups like Collabora.
There’s still a lot of stupidly annoying things that are missing like proper wayland (valve->frog) and its resultant features like HDR, VRR, etc.
Gamescope is open so any distro can use it. Desktop compositors are shipping these features already (SteamOS already uses upstream KDE). Not sure what the problem is
The linux packaging problem from 20 years ago is still a problem (albeit much less) which Torvalds himself mentioned Valve would just say “screw it” and bypass/solve the problem via Steam (which they did). The issue is the remainder. Kernel updates are all over the place depending on distro. Everything Ubuntu is technically out of date because SteamOS uses Arch. Fedora gets you closer at least.
SteamOS uses flatpak, every other distro uses flatpak. Ostree atomic distros (Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite. ublue (bazzite and friends) use flatpak. Modern kernels are on every distro, especially Fedora and Arch. Non-existant problem IMHO
It’s really just that OEM guarantee that would get it moving quicker. Although it might not even happen tbh, Valve said they weren’t that interested in competing against Microsoft which makes sense because its still the primary OS of their customer base.
Again, a SteamOS general release is not going to get you any more OEM support than installing any other distro
I'm not waiting to switch. Well other than waiting for the next time I refresh my hardware. I try to only switch my OS when i do new hardware. I mentioned it because I like their style and ways of doing things and I'd enjoy having them in a broader OS sense.
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I was hoping there would be something about resource usage. Curse you, steamwebhelper
Oh yeah. If you leave a steam page open, it'll create a very slow memory leak. Left store page open for about a week, came back to 6gb steamwebhelper xd
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I really hope they come with a wayland native version in the near future.
This, proton and an app I need for work are all that's left before I can trash xwayland... can't wait!
I really would like steamwebhelper to stop crashing randomly. It breaks game recording, and it doesn't come back until you restart steam.
So many good clips lost :(
i hope it finally fixes the bug that makes steam have alzheimers when it comes to windows size and position.
because I'm sick to fucking death of having to constantly resize and reposition the windows every time i switch between small/large and when launching.
Its so bad that I gave up and just started browsing steam store via browser.
I hate that it steals the focus like 5 times when launching. I'll try to click off to do something while it's starting, but it steals input focus. I get doing it once when the app finishes loading, but I really don't need to stare at the startup progress bar.
Steam, as a program, has fundamentally gotten worse with every update ever since they switched to electron/chromium
remember for a while they tried to take small mode away from us.
cause they are going down the same route that everything goes. Its gotten popular, so now they are trying to turn it into a social media platform.
I dont want a social media playform. theres already enough of those. I just want a small, slick, low resource, easy to use, quick to load program to buy my games and launch them.
Small mode? I had completely forgotten that it existed. I didn't know anyone used that.
it had utility, it would reduce ram usage, make the program more usable. But now it doesn't because it's all fucking electron, so it's literally useless.
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dropdown menus now appear correctly.
I feel like I've heard this before. Anyway, if it's true they've finally fixed a bug that's almost two years old
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Still waiting for a fix to make Steam library sharing usable on a multi user system without quietly failing with nothing showing
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Please fix the issue where you change my default graphic card settings in the desktop file. It’s super annoying to have to launch from the cli after an update.
I don't know if this would help but it might be worth a try, make a file immutable by
sudo chattr +i /file/location
If it doesn't work change it back,
sudo chattr -i /file/location
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OMG thats what that is... I thought I was crazy
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