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You Can Now Officially Install SteamOS on Some Other Handhelds
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this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
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It's even worse.
They are adding Linux support - but only if it detects you are running ~~the exact model of OLED screen as Steam Deck has~~ on SteamDeck, and blocks every other Linux device.
EDIT: There is some kind of hardware validation that can't be easily spoofed, I vaguely remember reading it was based on the screen HW, but that's beside the point.
Infinity Nikki does this :(
That's exactly how I found out about this, I was really looking forward to that game.
I think I also saw it somewhere else, but don't remember what it was.
This doesn't seem accurate — what about the basic, non-oled, steam deck?
(Yes the em-dash was intentional, I like them better than hyphens for division in sentences, don't @ me I'm not a bot)
You are right, edited. I remember reading somewhere that they do hardware-based whitelisting, and that it was based on the screen's HW, but the point was that they can (and a lot of game unfortunately do) somehow whitelist Steamdeck only, while still not letting desktop Linux play.