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   Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 (gamingonlinux@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 22:34:51 JST Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

   This is your regularly scheduled and apparently necessary reminder that SteamOS in Linux.

   SteamOS is built from Arch Linux.

   The Steam Deck runs Linux. So will the Steam Machine and Steam Frame.

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     gjerma (gjerma@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 23:23:55 JST gjerma

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     @gamingonlinux I don't mind them providing support for SteamOS only, testing the game on SteamOS devices is totally fine. What's concerning is when they go out of their way to block any other Linux running Steam client. This is absurd.

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     Сірьога-Сенсей (sergozar@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 23:31:00 JST Сірьога-Сенсей

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     @gamingonlinux

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     cauZation (cauzation@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 03:21:57 JST cauZation

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     @gamingonlinux It was impressive to see Steam... iron out... early problems, to being... stiff competition... ... ...

     I just can't go on.

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     Red (lingondraken@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 03:28:00 JST Red

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     @gamingonlinux I constantly see regular people misunderstand what SteamOS (and what it isn't) which, sure, I can understand.

     But, a game dev?

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     Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 (gamingonlinux@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 04:34:04 JST Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

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     To be clear - no shade here, just part of the continued service of being a Linux nerd, ensuring people do actually understand what's running 👍

     Much love devs.

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     Ray Of Sunlight (ray_of_sunlight@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 05:48:31 JST Ray Of Sunlight

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     @gamingonlinux that guy's either ignorant or stupid

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     HTPC NZ (htpcnz@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 07:18:59 JST HTPC NZ

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     @gamingonlinux i will accept that when a "normie" can download & install it on their generic x86 system just like any other "Linux" distro. Till then to me it is not much more Linux than Oracle Linux is. Any corporation that uses Linux to lockdown to their ecosystem isn't doing that out of goodness of their heart or what is best to consumers but to maximise their return to shareholders.

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     huu (huuishuu@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 07:30:59 JST huu

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     @gamingonlinux

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     Jim Jones (greatbigtable@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 12:42:54 JST Jim Jones

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     @gamingonlinux As someone who doesn't know. If I have Steam properly configured on my, say, Linux Mint machine... does that count as a SteamOS machine?

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     Strateture (strateture@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 13:51:11 JST Strateture

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     @gamingonlinux The problem here is that affected games are made for Windows and in some cases Mac. Said games don't even know they're running on Linux when getting funneled through Proton. Hence, developers can't claim they built the game for or support Linux.

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     Joykill (joykill@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 14:19:04 JST Joykill

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     @gamingonlinux and yet if you reach out to Steam support about technical issues running a Steam game on Manjaro, they will tell you that only Steam on Ubuntu is supported. Can you make it make sense?

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     The Penguin of Evil (etchedpixels@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 19:56:42 JST The Penguin of Evil

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     @gamingonlinux "supported" is a magic word though. It means one thing to a lot of software folks "it works" and another to corporate types and many other bits of a business "we'll care if it doesn't work"

     If you say you support Linux and it breaks on someone's obscure setup then to most eyes you are at fault. If you say it supports steamdeck and it happens to work on their box then great everyone is happy.,

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     Yes please (ashamed_floppy@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 06:53:14 JST Yes please

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     @gamingonlinux the ultimate btw i run arch…

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     Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 (gamingonlinux@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 08:11:29 JST Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

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     https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/

     "SteamOS is Valve’s Linux-based operating system."