SteamOS Reviews

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SteamOS mentions (56)

• Is it possible for a PC to only run steam and steam games and nothing else?

  SteamOS exists but may limit the games that could be played since it's a Linux based OS. Steam itself also has a web browser so no matter the way you do it have to research how or if you can disable that. There's also ways you could clamp windows down a lot but that's a lot of work. Source: 6 months ago

• So about SteamOS and ChimeraOS...

  I'm a bit confused about SteamOS. Is this the offical version for desktop devices? If so, why do people use ChimeraOS if there is already an offical version of it? Or is it not complete. Source: 7 months ago

• An L bois

  Closest you'll get is with SteamOS which can be run on a PC: https://store.steampowered.com/steamos. Source: about 1 year ago

• Install on Steam Deck?

  I know I could install Dungeondraft on my Steam Deck when running Windows, but is it possible to install Dungeondraft on my Steam Deck when in "Desktop Mode" of the SteamOS? I know Dungeondraft specifically says "Ubuntu" as one of the OSes it supports, but SteamOS is based on Debian Jessie. I've tried to research how much different Jessie is from Ubuntu, but I'm not having much luck. Source: about 1 year ago

• Why do reviewers still say that the Steam Deck can't run Windows?

  It’s literally a Debian distro…. https://store.steampowered.com/steamos. Source: about 1 year ago

XNU mentions (46)

• ScummVM officially released in the App Store

  > ...even though they are technically in violation of the GPL by modifying and shipping bash binaries without full source - it is missing rootless.h (not the X11 file) They're not. They've covered this in two main ways: 1) By listing all their source code on https://opensource.apple.com/ (which links to their GitHub with all the source code) 2) By offering a complete machine-readable copy of the source code upon... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• macOS 13.5 source code released

  The XNU kernel has been open source for a very long time. https://opensource.apple.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU Note that this is not the full operating system/windowing system, it's just the kernel. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Apple’s new Proton-like tool can run Windows games on a Mac

  Apple does plenty of open source stuff. Safari's browser engine, Swift, libdispatch, the XNU kernel used by iOS and macOS, etc. And macOS is generally packed with open source things, like the default shell, zsh. Also, Metal actually predates Vulkan, so Vulkan was definitely not established when they started focusing on Metal. Yeah, they probably should consider supporting Vulkan now, but it's nothing to do with... Source: about 1 year ago

• DirectX 12 Support on macOS

  It's still not a great thing to do. Apple used to contribute a lot more, even if some of their stuff was exclusive to their platform. https://opensource.apple.com. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• [D] ClosedAI license, open-source license which restricts only OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Meta from commercial use

  Everything that includes copyleft code is open source. You can see https://opensource.apple.com for a full list. Source: about 1 year ago