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I was trying to find this on Steam so that I could shame the developer for not knowing what they were developing for, but the comment itself seems to have vanished 🤣

I'm with you on the messaging, but if they do support SteamOS, you should probably figure out what your setup is missing by yourself

This will likely be how most devs will provide Linux support for quite sometime, until Linux market share on steam reaches about 15% or so. A similar thing is happening in EV's right now. Regions where adoption reaches above a certain threshold start building out infrastructure.

shh don't tell them or they might start making sure it only works on steamos on steamdeck and not linux on pc

A random community manager on Steam mixed up one form of shit with another form of shit. Can’t blame them. Linux users fast becoming the new insufferable Mac nerds.

Anyway, muting now 😜

To people who know nothing other than windows and mac, and never known open source can get confused by this. It's a never ending battle to twach the masses about how Linux works.

Spot on. Arch is a power house, and it's awesome seeing Valve bring that flexibility to handheld gaming.

But in that case, if I'm understanding this correctly, because the game is running on Proton, the distro is trivial, right?

Once it runs on one version of linux it's only a matter of time before it runs on all of 'em.

Ah there you go lol. Thanks for the info!

It’s a similar thing I’ve corrected with many news sites still somehow saying Proton is an operating system.

Sometimes this means that there's a flag where if the game detects anything that isn't a Steam deck it will refuse to run.

Their response is bad because it's contradictory in a general language way. In the same way it's common but technically incorrect to say "mammals don't lay eggs".

I didn’t say it was a good or bad thing. I just think it’s going to happen.

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"Hi, I'm having trouble running this on Hannah Montana Linux"

absolutely, i wouldn’t expect any developer to ever truly support every flavour of linux. they should say that instead, tbh. could you imagine a dedicated team just for fedora forza players?

This is why I exclusively call SteamOS "SteamOS Linux" just to subtly inform anyone who may be unaware.

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I see someone has jumped in already but as someone who routinely uses both arch and Debian: This is the whole point of the steam Linux runtime, which is finally not total shit since 3.0.

tell me you don't know how steam works without telling me you don't know how steam works

If only they could fix the damn login for forza motorsport so that game can be played on Linux

They said something to the effect of "Linux is not a PC" the other day. lmao

It's no so hard to say something like: "Unfortunately, we can only provide support for Windows 10/11 and SteamOS configurations."

The name seems to imply this person is a community manager, which probably wasn't informed that SteamOS is a flavor of Linux. Or they thought someone was trying to run it on a Linux distro that was not SteamOS based. There's multiple ways to interpret the question.