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Steam Frame and Steam Machine will be another good boost for Flatpaks and desktop Linux overall too (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@toast.ooo to c/linux@programming.dev

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With the Steam Frame and Steam Machine launching with SteamOS Linux this year, we're going to again see a nice boost for Flatpaks and desktop Linux overall.

Linux has, historically, been quite messy when it comes to software distribution. We have various distribution-specific packaging formats like .deb (Debian / Ubuntu), .rpm (Fedora) and the list just goes on and on. Canonical also went their own way with Ubuntu for the likes of Snap, but the real winner is going to end up being Flatpak and the main Flathub store.

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[–] Jestzer@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Valve not showing the price of these is a pretty strong indicator that these are not going to be generously priced, which is why I’m not allowing myself to be excited about them. I think that they won’t be widely adopted enough to make a large impact on Linux as a result of the price.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Valve showed the price of the Steam Deck the day it was revealed, so I agree. This thing's gonna be $700 if we're lucky, which is way too high for mass adoption. Even the $400 Steam Deck entry price is gone now.

[–] dil@piefed.zip 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Not for a pc, as a kid I couldnt justify consoles but I could justify more expensive pcs/laptops because I could do homework and other sht on them, it runs proctor programs, browsers, and google docs just fine, microsoft online is free too. Libreoffice/onlyoffice are solid too.

It's not just a console, it could be a college freshmans first pc that is fairly portable.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

Possibly, but it's being marketed to the console crowd. They're not going to get big numbers from people looking for a PC. It should at least be profitable for Valve, but it's a damn shame it had to release when hardware pricing is so messed up.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I just hope it sets a good example for other OEMs.

"What do you mean people don't want 50+ liters of unused space?? They want Linux on their gaming computer?"

And I'm guessing the price will be high enough that other OEMs will be able to compete with it with higher specs (RDNA 4) and similar prices (within a few hundred dollars)