For those who wish to test out the very latest improvements to the Steam Deck, Valve has put up Steam Deck OS 3.5 into Preview now. In the official announcement Valve go over a big list of new features and fixes, so here's some of what's included.
The fact is that they are rebranding it to Steam Deck OS.
As far as I know they’ve said nothing about that. It’s reasonable to say that the title is a typo for a couple reasons.
They’ve stated they want SteamOS on third-party devices before
There’s also the rumored VR headset running SteamOS as well
Two use cases for the OS that have nothing to do with Steam Deck, so “Steam Deck OS” makes no sense as a name. I personally think they are waiting for Plasma 6+HDR support+VR support before they ship a desktop version, it’s important to have feature-parity with Windows out the gate for good word-of-mouth.
Ok, not a typo. Other than the title of these patch notes, is it referred to as “Steam Deck OS” anywhere else? On Preview branch the distro still says “SteamOS Holo”.
As far as I know they’ve said nothing about that. It’s reasonable to say that the title is a typo for a couple reasons.
Two use cases for the OS that have nothing to do with Steam Deck, so “Steam Deck OS” makes no sense as a name. I personally think they are waiting for Plasma 6+HDR support+VR support before they ship a desktop version, it’s important to have feature-parity with Windows out the gate for good word-of-mouth.
it’s not a typo: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200
It’s literally been repeated for every version since July 19, 2022. They last used the “SteamOS” term in the title on May 26, 2022.
Ok, not a typo. Other than the title of these patch notes, is it referred to as “Steam Deck OS” anywhere else? On Preview branch the distro still says “SteamOS Holo”.