How this changed everything. Incredible. John Carmack stated back then this is the way to get Linux gaming popular. And we laughed. Proton got released and a lot of Linux fans got mad because this would kill native versions.
Yet we can now play more games than ever before on our favorite OS. Be it on PC handhelds, where Valve managed to create the best experience with Steam OS, we can play VR (currently all games are working again, at least for me)... and so much more. On the marketshare sites and Valve's own stats page Linux has outperformed Mac since a while now.
People install Linux on Windows only PC gaming handhelds with Chimera OS, bazzite, etc because it's the better experience.
Wow. Thanks Valve, thanks to all contributors, what a time to be alive as a Linux gamer.

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from Lawrence Yang on The Verge [External Link]

The note about ROG Ally keys is related to third-party device support for SteamOS. The team is continuing to work on adding support for additional handhelds on SteamOS

Okay! This is indeed official support for SteamOS from Valve for other devices than the Steam Deck. Awesome!

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Is Chimera OS or Bazzite pulling stuff from Steam OS? Maybe that's the idea behind it. What purpose do these fixes have otherwise in Steam OS?

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Quoting: poke86

Quoting: GuestMight be the wrong place to ask, but I want to play Half Life Alyx as intended. Is there a VR system that works well with Linux that perhaps is a bit less than the $1k price tag of the Valve index?

Used HTC Vive off ebay.
You won't get the full finger tracking of the Index but apart from that it'll work.

You could get the Index controllers seperately though, they do work with the Steam VR 1.0 (HTC Vive) tracking. Nevertheless it's a good idea to have also Vive Wands (HTC Vive controllers), as e.g. the Half Life 2 VR Mod seems to work better with them than with the Index controllers.

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Awesome, thanks for this interesting write up!

and because I may have anger management issues when they tell me something doesn't work on Linux, but just maybe!

Haha, maybe!

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Hopefully they add multiplayer for Ultimate Carnage again, after stripping the Windows Live component multiplayer is gone.

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After reading some good articles about the game, being a sci-fi fan and enjoying at least the first movie, I was thinking about getting this game. I haven't played any Far Cry in ages, so I wouldn't it mind being a similar game, as I would enjoy the setting.
But if it doesn't work on Linux I guess it's off the table for now.

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As an owner of the first ROG Ally, it looks like they addressed the ergonomic issues I had. Round corners will be much more appreciated, I'd have to test out the new positioning of the analog sticks.

I'm wondering if there isn't a new SoC available in the meantime, or at least shrinking the manufacturing process by 1 nm like it happened with the Steam Deck SoC.

I have to admit I'm tempted to get one. For the current ROG Ally I even got an external GPU (the 2022 6850M XT model) for it with their proprietary connector, and it runs VR really well (back then VR on Linux was in a really bad state, lots of games I enjoyed playing not working, but that has changed now!). Yet I'm hesitating, as I want to finally try one of the other "handheld" Linux distros first (e.g. chimera os or brazzite). Too bad that firmware upgrades will need Windows to apply still, so dual booting will be a necessity still -.-

And they should be thankful to Valve, without the Steam Deck, nobody would be interested in the ROG Ally (or other PC gaming handhelds), so they could at least officially support Linux on the ROG Ally, am I right? :D

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More than Mac... impressive!

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Really cool also that on Deck it's the native Linux version that made it through the verification process, thanks to Cheeseness and Nemoder!

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