SteamOS 3.9.0 Preview(store.steampowered.com)
16 pointsby EspadaV92 hours ago4 comments
  • imkacan hour ago
    Once KDE 6.8 is released, Valve must add Wayland support for Steam client and Proton/Wine. Also, they should drop 32-bit dependencies for Steam client on Linux, which has been done for Windows and macOS long ago.
  • N_Lens2 hours ago
    What I can see from this release is that SteamOS is being converted from device firmware into a general-purpose distribution that happens to boot into a game launcher. Quite a bit of a version jump in the dependencies as well.
  • chorizoan hour ago
    My steam deck has been my main dev pc for a year now. Also serves Qwen 3.5 9B when I use my MacBook Air. Distrobox prevents OS updates from clobbering my environment.
    • sphan hour ago
      Still more sensible than the 'my iPad is my main dev environment' fad from ~10 years ago. The Steam Deck is a fully fledged Linux desktop, not a defanged entertainment system.
      • koolala26 minutes ago
        It's awesome as a desktop. Way better than modern windows. It's like a weird Linux laptop you can unplug from your dock and use comfortably laying down which most computers can't.
      • chorizo41 minutes ago
        SteamOS is Arch Linux under the hood. Mine is setup as a desktop with 4K monitor, keyboard, mice and webcam. Upgraded internal ssd, added an external drive. 16GB ram, cooling fan and AMD unified gpu. It’s designed to tolerate close to max cpu+gpu load indefinitely and runs my Vulkan simulation code overnight.
    • koolala32 minutes ago
      Me too. Are you able to run full screen programs like games on a monitor with this latest OS?

      The version before this broke fullscreen when I updated to the Wayland stable branch so I had to revert to X11 SteamOS.

      • chorizo28 minutes ago
        Haven’t used mine to play games in ages, not sure. Haven’t installed the update yet because I don’t want my dev environment to get accidentally borked. But yes, the previous version couldn’t even play videos full screen.
        • koolala23 minutes ago
          Same. Videos too yeah. Hopefully this update fixes it but I don't see it mentioned. Weird how something like that makes it into Stable.

          There is a command you can run to make the old boot partition the main partition again so reverting the update holds after reboot. Wish they built the command into the GUI.

  • xiaoyu2006an hour ago
    Nice, they are quite close to upstream.