With the Steam Frame and Steam Machine launching with SteamOS Linux this year, we're going to again see a nice boost for Flatpaks and desktop Linux overall.

With the Steam Frame and Steam Machine launching with SteamOS Linux this year, we’re going to again see a nice boost for Flatpaks and desktop Linux overall.

Linux has, historically, been quite messy when it comes to software distribution. We have various distribution-specific packaging formats like .deb (Debian / Ubuntu), .rpm (Fedora) and the list just goes on and on. Canonical also went their own way with Ubuntu for the likes of Snap, but the real winner is going to end up being Flatpak and the main Flathub store.

  • Jestzer@lemmy.world
    231·
    2 days ago

    Valve not showing the price of these is a pretty strong indicator that these are not going to be generously priced, which is why I’m not allowing myself to be excited about them. I think that they won’t be widely adopted enough to make a large impact on Linux as a result of the price.

    • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      81·
      2 days ago

      Valve showed the price of the Steam Deck the day it was revealed, so I agree. This thing’s gonna be $700 if we’re lucky, which is way too high for mass adoption. Even the $400 Steam Deck entry price is gone now.