In an IGN interview, Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais said that “[they] want [SteamOS] to be at the point where at some point you can install it on any PC”. Below is a transcript of the interview. I tried to clean it up to my best ability.
Just like Steam Deck paved the way for Steam OS on a variety of third-party handhelds, we expect that Steam Machine will pave the way for Steam OS on a bunch of different machines in either similar form factors, different perf envelopes, different segments of the market, and get to a good outcome there. We definitely want to encourage people to try it out on their own hardware. We’ll be working on expanding hardware support for the drivers and the base operating system. Just last week, we fixed something that was preventing us from booting on the very latest AMD CPU platforms. Last month, we added support for the Intel Lunar Lake platforms. We’re constantly adding support and improving performance. We want it to be at the point where at some point you can install it on any PC, but there’s still a ton of work to do there.
If the embedded video doesn’t take you to the correct part of the video, the correct timestamp is 5:37.
EDIT: Here’s the written article of the video:
https://www.ign.com/articles/valves-next-gen-steam-machine-and-steam-controller-the-big-interview
I just explained that they’re not doing a good job at that.
You said it’s strange they are working so hard on it. Are you lost?
JFC, that’s what they said, not me. Are you lost?
Even if I did, hard work is not the same as good work.
No, I’m not lost, that’s literally the comment you made that I responded to.
They are working on it, a major software company with the means and funds to infinitely back Linux.
If you prefer Bazzite or some other OS, that’s great, but Valve building and supporting their own distribution is a good thing for more mainstream adoption of Linux.
Maybe English isn’t your first language, so you didn’t mean exactly what you said?
Did you not read the OP? I was repeating what they said.
I know they say they’re working on it. That’s the problem. What’s the hold up? Why is the team of volunteers able to make it happen and the corporation with “infinite” funds isn’t able to make it more on more than a couple of devices after a decade of development? Why isn’t that strange to you?
You’re actually completely lost.
They have been working on support for their own first party devices before anything else, now they are moving to supporting more hardware. It’s Valve, they don’t function like other companies, they won’t have hundreds of people working on SteamOS for the masses. They want it to work on their own devices flawlessly before anything else, how is that so hard to understand?
It’s not “strange” at all. You’re going to go in circles, so I’ll leave this discussion here. Good luck out there.
How many hundred people do you think are working at Bazzite and Cachy and Chimera and Nobara, who are all able to make this happen?
I am. I dont understand WHY they wouldn’t want to have SteamOS on more devices sooner. That’s strange to me. I truly don’t understand why that’s so confusing to you.