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Hey #Linux gamers here is your chance to tell ASUS we want a Linux-based ROG Ally gaming handheld ๐ง
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There are some in this community who are willing to go into "2008 web forum user in a PlayStation vs Xbox thread" over basically any consumer electronics they buy. Not just in terms of PC handhelds, but stuff like graphics card vendor too. It's wild.
Bought a steam deck? Well then everything else is utter SHIT and those people are MORONS. Anybody that doesn't buy a Steam Deck should be Windows only, even if that disadvantages me too!
We should be welcoming of people running whatever OS they want, and welcoming of manufacturers giving the option of SteamOS. Even more so when it will benefit Linux (and by extension Steam Deck) gamers.
Whats stopping you from slapping a linux distro on any of the other handhelds? Especially with steamos, which is made with that in mind, on the way?
Other than some of them having some really... quirky drivers (which is a big deal), nothing.
But most people don't like installing OSes, and it's still better to have official support than no support, so I think it's still a benefit to the user to have it as an official option, and still benefits us to have a larger SteamOS userbase in general.
Nothing. I did this with two different handhelds. The main problem that I've run into is that the built in controls don't work as well as if they had been natively supported and I would be more than willing to have a fix for that with an official steam OS distro if one was available. The point is, a closed mouth don't get fed. If they don't think people want this they aren't going to dedicate time and resources to it.