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Valve are still taking SteamOS beyond the Steam Deck, though dual booting is a ways off

www.rockpapershotgun.com Valve are still taking SteamOS beyond the Steam Deck, though dual booting is a ways off

Valve have confirmed that SteamOS support for non-Steam Deck handhelds is ticking along - unlike dual booting, which will elude Deck owners a while longer.

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What is the use case for dual boot? Do you really want windows telemetry on your device?
- The few games that require windows only anti cheat
- i get we're on lemmy so this sentiment might be amplified, but just a reminder that most people unfortunately do not give a shit about this sort of thing
- What is the use case for dual boot?
  
  Games that don't work on Linux?
- What about dual-booting a switch? Having to both Nintendo and Steam library on the same device.
  
  I don't know about Consoles, but a neat thought would could be dual-booting a Playstation.
  
  I don't use any of the above, just thinking out loud that there's other stuff that could do with a dual-boot option than a Windows machine.
  
  Why should I do that when I can emulate it on steamOS?
  
  I think the hard part with using the os from a playstation or switch instead of an emulator would be getting the hardware running with drivers and whatnot. While it may be possible I can't see it as very practical unless you are that kind of coding nerd and you want to do it as a challenge.
- Bedrock Minecraft (non-Android version)

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