• LwL@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    I forgot where but some time in the last 3 hours I read that the goal for steamOS is to be supported on all PCs, though it’s an ongoing effort.

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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      13 minutes ago

      That’s a big challenge, but a worthwhile one. The reason that Microsoft exploded in the DOS era was because it ran on everything that was “IBM compatible” aka x86. Meanwhile Apple was over there with a competitive product, but you could only run the software on their OS that ran in their hardware. People were able to get cheap third party x86 compatible computers and run MS-DOS (and later Windows), and they were not locked into a specific vendor doing top to bottom hardware/software support.

      If they do this right, they’ll be the go to option for a lot of people who generally use their PC primarily for gaming.