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Valve confirms it'll support the ROG Ally with its Steam Deck operating system(www.theverge.com)

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Recent patch notes sounded like they might be hinting at upcoming ROG Ally support, but it’s now confirmed.

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TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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Open source just means you can get the source code, it doesn’t mean you can take over a project.

Asus can’t just take SteamOS, apply some driver tweaks, change some options, and release it as a SteamOS device.

A lot of SteamOS is proprietary, and Valve of course owns all the IP related to the branding. Asus literally needs Valve’s blessing to do it.

Asus are certainly welcome to help Valve with their code, but Valve could also say no this is our project.

And of course they can fork the open part of SteamOS and brand it as something else, and not install steam/steamUI, but that’s half the reason people use the steam deck. It wouldn’t be SteamOS without that.

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julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de
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Okay, understood. May be SteamOS was the incorrect wording. I meant the Linux Kernel, Arch, Proton. I am assuming most changes are related to hardware and software compatibility which should all be open source.

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