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SteamOS is currently only supported on Steam deck and while there are efforts to make it work on desktop I would advise against using them because of reliability concerns. However if you want a SteamOS like experience made for desktop I recommend Bazzite. You should be fine with it, but if you want the easiest experience possible then I would highly recommend Linux Mint. I would just put them on USB drive and try them both, check if your 3D printer is working and then install the one you prefer
off steamdeck its supported as much as most linux distros. It existed for a long time before the steamdeck.
SteamOS prior to steamdeck is an entirely different distribution FYI
like older. its optimized for steamdeck but its not like they made it less capable overall. At least that I know of. Like if steamdeck did not exist I don't think the current version would be more capable on other hardware but it would lack some stuff that gets it to run better on steamdeck.
No, I mean it was debian based. When Steam Deck released, they moved to being an immutable arch based distribution instead.
It also isn't currently made available for install outside of the Steam Deck yet.
there is tow versions is all now. https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown
"NOTE: This image is not compatible with Steam Deck. "
That is the old distribution based on Debian 8, which stopped receiving LTS updates in June 2020. You should switch to something else unless the system isn't connected to the internet.
https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/
holy crap. I am totally in the wrong here. I did not realize the core was that out of date. I actually just have steam installed on another distro which I think steamos does not really add any benefit for but I had thought at times about installing the os thinking it would kept up to date.
It's not "the core". It's simply an outdated distro that's not used nor maintained anymore. It was used for the Steam Machines, their attempt at a console-like PC, which failed to garner enough interest. Current Steam Deck's Steam OS is a completely different system and has nothing to do with this one.
yeah I was not using core in any official way just to mean what it was based on. I had no idea it was so abandoned.
That's what we're trying to tell you. It's not based on that at all.
I don't know any other ways to reiterate. my bad. I get what your saying and again I did not use core to mean anything more than the distro was based on which you already pointed out. Let me make it very clear. In this discourse you have won the internet this day. I learned something.
@RmDebArc_5 @figjam
"... while there are efforts to make it work on desktop I would advise against using them..." many people including me use Proton on desktop and everything just works smoothly & flawlessly, Proton in reality came out on desktop before on handheld console, I mean Proton was able to be used on PC long before the SteamDeck was a thing, problems are mostly user-end outage
I was talking about projects like HoloISO which bring SteamOS to desktop, never said anything about proton