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Because those other distributions aren't Valve. It's called brand recognition.
No it's called excessive costs and labor in the form of customer service and a degraded support experience for the end user.
What customer service are you referring to? People can already submit customer service concerns about SteamOS. Valve are not obligated to do anything about them. If anything there would be fewer of them because it would actually work.
What customer service do you think those other distributions are offering? What customer service do you think MS is offering?
Liability and expectations. You can sue Valve. You are unable to sue Bazzite, and they have no liability or warranties for any given release of their operating system.
Steam Support is held in high regard because they are willing to go above and beyond for customers prior. If something broke inside of a generic SteamOS installation completely outside of Valve's control, that would reflect badly on the staff and the brand.
You can sue anyone for anything.
SteamOS doesn't either.
It's already outside of Valve's control. They don't control the Linux kernel, they don't control KDE, they don't control any of the software on the device, including ones pre-installed or ones in the store. And they don't need to.
So they should do just another distro for the sake of making another distro instead of focusing on something that will put them above rest for gaming?
The way they do things now benefit all of Linux. The optimisations they do now are focused on very specific HW and with the amount of employees they have now I doubt they can focus on broad support while providing these kinds of specific optimisations. There is basically no need to install Steam OS on your machine… just get Bazzite.
Also what brand recognition? If you game on PC, you install Steam anyways.
No one is asking for another distro?
If the handful of volunteers at Bazzite can do it, I'm pretty sure the multi-billion dollar company can figure it out. They obviously don't want to for some reason.
Steam? The single most recognizable brand in PC gaming?
are you a bot?
Do I sound like a bot?
Yes. Everything you quoted was taken out of context
And you sound like someone who has nothing interesting left to say.
mutual, I’ve already explained my point of view
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