t’s certainly been a journey for Valve. A week prior to the Steam Frame’s launch, we spoke with two engineers at Valve about the project: Joy Lyons, hardware engineer, and Jeremy Selan, software engineer. The memory crisis and the price were a big part of that conversation. From that chat, we can confirm that Valve had aimed for a lower price point than the one it’s launching the Frame for today.
Here’s Lyons on the memory crisis:
“We set out to design this hardware with one particular price in mind, but we’ve made choices to make sure that we’re making a product that is choiceful, that people can purchase, they can upgrade with different features later. But we wanted to make sure we had a base product with really great performance. Then that price target shifted due to the ongoing RAM crisis around the world.”
Lyons also said that forecasting for the cost of certain components used in the Steam Frame is an ongoing challenge.
Not exactly boding well of the Steam Deck 2.
Rasbian is not a fork of “Linux”. It is a distro that contains lots and lots and lots of open software. Including Linux. Just like Ubuntu and Alpine and Debian and Rocky and Neon and hundreds of other distros do.
That distro is fully open .
It includes an open, non-closed version of the Linux kernel.
You can, and people absolutely do, use Linux from the Linux foundation, on tons of ARM hardware, including Raspberry Pis and other ARM-based general purpose computers
Can I run desktop Ubuntu on my Motorola phone? No. But I can’t run it on a Kankun smart plug either, and that runs Linux. Ubuntu wasn’t designed to run on this hardware (though they did work a LOT on specific phone and tablet support). I also can’t run it on a Milk-V Duo, but it is Risc-V and runs “Linux”.
Do many phone manufacturers do other things to lock down phones? Yes, but that has nothing to do with being ARM-based. And I was responding specifically to the ARM claims.
Go to github.com/torvalds/linux
click “fork”
You now have a fork of Linux.
You’re probably allowed by the trademark holder to still call it Linux, but its not associated with the official Linux kernel project.
The problem with ARM is that all of the hardware manufacturers lock down their hardware or othwise make it difficult to use with mainline Linux. That was all I was saying. I wouldn’t want to game on a MilkV Duo either.
By that measure there are very very few Linux systems running Linux. Most distros ship their own slightly customized fork.
No, they do not all do that
And it has nothing to do with ARM vs x86 or Risc-V which was your original core point
Also, raspberry pi os ships with a mainline Linux kernel.