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SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC 'because right now, it's very, very tuned for Steam Deck' (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

wait does this mean I will be able to install it on my PS Vita?!
Steam Deck is too big for my tiny hands!

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    In case this is not a joke, Steam only runs on x86 processors. The Vita has an ARM processor. But I bet someone made some Linux that runs on the Vita. Just not with Steam games.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    it's not a joke, I don't know shit about processors

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    it’s not a joke, I don’t know shit about processors

    You could use google....

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I did, "steam os run on vita" didn't give me anything. I'm not about to learn all about processors to answer this simple question lol that's silly

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    Wine and Rosetta are fundamentally different things. Wine is a reimplementation of Windows APIs on Linux, whereas Rosetta is hardware emulation (famously, Wine Is Not an Emulator).

    The equivalent of Rosetta on Linux is QEMU, and specifically qemu-user-static.

    The thing about hardware emulation, though, is that it has a non-trivial processor overhead. Apple Silicon gets away with it because it's a very fast chip which has been designed partly with hardware emulation in mind. Trying to emulate x86 on some generic off-the-shelf mobile ARM chip is not going to give great results.

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