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SteamOS could see a general distribution release, work with other handheld gaming PCs soon (www.techspot.com)
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[–] BlackLaZoR@kbin.run 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Valve really appears as the woke gaming authority that single handed progresses the industry

Nah, they just have a software platform instead of hardware one

[–] hohoho@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The ideal platform will be hardware agnostic

[–] BlackLaZoR@kbin.run 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It would need to be open-source and using only open APIs when talking to the system. This isn't happening any time soon

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 13 points 3 months ago

Isn't that just OpenGL/Vulcan and Linux?

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

It would need to be open-source and using only open APIs when talking to the system. This isn’t happening any time soon

You're describing Java which is open source since 2007.