Thread 724109392

Why doesn't Valve make a fully fledged Desktop OS?

>>724109392 (OP)
No reason? A company devoting resources to making an OS is dumb when Windows just works.™

>shitnux
no

>>724109392 (OP)
Sounds like a lot of work.

Not even Microsoft could replace Windows at this point, what makes you think Valve could?

>>724109493
>spies on everything you do

>>724109392 (OP)
Too busy collecting free money and paying guys like Tyler to build hype for a game that isn't releasing because it's funny.

Valve can't even make a full AAA title if they wanted to, they are hovering around 300 employees. Their headcount would need to increase ten fold to make anything like that happen.

>>724109726
Not my problem. Shouldn't have bought an ARM shitbox.

>>724109392 (OP)
Too much work, even if it would knock microsoft off their throne.

Do you have ANY IDEA how intense that would be? Steam OS is a Linux distribution, it is already piggybacking off the work of thousands of other people. They can't just write an entire OS from scratch unless it's the 10000th linux distribution in which case who cares?

holy shit shut the fuck up, I'm tired of your avatarfagging

>>724111592
>doesn't like Aquaposting

Steamies are delusional, they think a lazy 400 team company can compete against a trillion dollar company with hundreds of thousands making their OS

>>724109392 (OP)
Steam OS is literally just
>Arch Linux
>KDE
>Steam preinstalled
>Special drivers installed for the Steam Deck
That's literally it. You can install all that on your computer right now if you want. Arch used to be hard to install circa 2012, but now its braindead easy.

>>724111592
>avatarfagging
what happened to people calling them reaction images?

>>724112521
When it's the same character every time, it's avatarfagging.

>>724109392 (OP)
Steam OS can be run on desktop just not on most hardware and not an official release. Also it won't matter unless people are using it. It's not enough that nerds install it as an alternate OS on PC and normies don't but it in a store. So valve is better off releasing more reference hardware with steam OS on it like the steam deck. Deckard/Frame is next for VR. Then Fremont for a living room PC/console. Also valve will probably never sell hundreds of millions of units of these things, third party partners need to step in and produce hardware with steamOS installed.

Also valve doesn't "make the OS". SteamOS is a valve distribution of arch linux. The good thing is if they can make SteamOS popular enough it will defragment the linux community and work will be focused on arch and get pushed downstream to SteamOS.

>>724109392 (OP)
its because gamers are retarded and would throw a hissy fit if their hardware isnt supported
steamos works for the steamdeck because its all the same

Gaben just wanted an OS to install on the Steamdeck. He doesn't want to support an OS, because then he'd have to expand Valve a thousandfold.

>>724109392 (OP)
I really want to know why you fucks think SteamOS is some magical solution.

>>724109392 (OP)
Because the people who would be willing and able to install SteamOS on a desktop PC can already install any other Linux instead. If getting Linux to work on your PC is too hard for you, then you'd have the same issues with SteamOS when it's not pre-installed for you and tailored to your exact hardware.

>>724109392 (OP)
Just use Bazzite.

>>724114864
>Bazzite

>>724109392 (OP)
You mean like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, Arch?

>>724114971
steamos is built on arch

>>724109392 (OP)
>Why doesn't Valve make a fully fledged Desktop OS?
Can you imagine doing tech support for the tech literate masses today?

>>724110798
>>724110798
Valve could do it. They are capable of it.

>>724109392 (OP)
Because normal people just use windows.

>>724113037
If people get this mad over Aqua reaction pics, I gotta start posting them too. Seems fun.

>>724115504
You have no idea how fun it is. Join us!

>>724115357
Why the fuck would I want conform to normalfags

>>724109726
I'm being spied on by my fucking refrigerator, I aint escaping that shit so I don't give a fuck.

>>724115541
Gonna go through episodes for screenshots or dig through archives for already existing ones and use the same filename.

>>724114220
Valve could just fund work on arch linux. All anyone expects is for valve to keep proton compatibility working smoothly

>>724109726
I don't think valve cares if you'll still use it anyway.

>>724109493
>windows just works
>literally shits on your gaming performance and is ill suited to anything other than an extremely beefy PC because of all the bloat and telemetry
Its BARELY works even when debloated now, Mint/Bazzite/CachyOS/Nobara or something like those distros depending on your usecases are mandatory for gaming these days.

>>724109392 (OP)
It's one thing to make a Linux distro that targets a specific hardware setup that you yourself control. It's a whole different problem to make a one-size-fits-all distro that works on all hardware configurations, especially when most GPUs come from Nvidia.

>>724109392 (OP)
Kernels were already perfected with the Linux kernel. It's why Google forked it for Android. If Valve for whatever reason need to further separate from Linux they'll just fork the kernel like Google did.

>>724110013
XDXDXD
This niggermonkey fell for the inflated budget meme. Do you think all 6 gorillion employees in ubishit, ea, shitzzard and the like actively work on the game? They have sextillions of workers yet most of the game gets outsourced anyway, there's maybe around 500 actual developers (white/asian straight men) who contribute to the game, the rest are parasites.

>>724117139
Works on my machine.™ Maybe if linux had a reason to use it, I'd switch.

>>724109493
>just works
Is that why windows is frying PCs?

It would be immediately sabotaged by the enthusiast linux user base because it likely won't have near the level of customization as other distros.
>why is there only one DE?
>why can't I choose what display manager to use?
>why can't I pick my own WM?
These fuckers have to have their FREEDOM and would flood any discussion of it with negativity. Any on the fence windows users would immediately be turned off.

>>724119361
>frying
>meaning either the SSD hoax or people too stupid to figure out secure boot

Real programmers don't exist anymore

>>724113037
it's avatarfagging when somebody is using some specific theme as a posting avatar, it is not you seeing more than one aqua image in your life

>>724109392 (OP)
why would they make an OS? who would even want to use it?

>>724120347
Aqua has been forever spoiled by the "why does everyone have to be racist to jeets" guy.
>>724120749
Fat people.

>>724109392 (OP)
One of the developers was asked this and they said that nvidia's drivers for linux are such a shitshow that they wouldn't feel confident releasing it since most gamers would have a bad experience.

>>724120065
>ummm those don't heckin count
of course