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teroshan ◴[12 Nov 25 18:10 UTC] No.45903562[source]▶
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamframe [1]

> Steam Frame is a PC, and runs SteamOS powered by a Snapdragon® 8 Series Processor. With 16GB of RAM, Steam Frame supports stand-alone play on a growing number of both VR and non-VR games without needing to stream from your PC.

So Steam + Proton works on aarch64? Is this something already available/supported, or is this an announcement?

[1] Steam Frame, which is the VR Headset releasing alongside the Steam Machine. Dedicated discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903325

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1. delusional ◴[12 Nov 25 19:02 UTC] No.45904498[source]▶
I'm more confused that it's running SteamOS which is supposedly Arch based, but arch doesn't officially support ARM. You have to use the ArchLinuxARM distro for that, which is less maintained. They got to be doing something off label for that.
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2. uncletaco ◴[12 Nov 25 19:09 UTC] No.45904639[source]▶
Even if they are, Valve has a long track record of contributing back to open source projects.
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3. 0x1ch ◴[12 Nov 25 19:17 UTC] No.45904787[source]▶
Proton was a community led effort years back. The guy who started that is now an employee at Valve (IIRC) working on Proton, but also getting paid :)
4. 0x457 ◴[12 Nov 25 19:20 UTC] No.45904856[source]▶
> arch doesn't officially support ARM

Doesn't really mean much to Valve as SteamOS vendor:

- linux kernel supports aarch64 just fine

- user space supports aarach64 just as fine

- Valve provides runtime for games (be it via proton or native linux), so providing aarch64 builds is up to them anyway

The main point of ArchLinuxARM is providing compatible binaries, which isn't something hard to do in-house.

5. whatevaa ◴[12 Nov 25 19:55 UTC] No.45905481[source]▶
Arch doesn't support ARM at all. Arm is somebody else hobby project.
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6. tiberious726 ◴[12 Nov 25 19:59 UTC] No.45905552[source]▶
You mean valve's?
7. wafflemaker ◴[12 Nov 25 20:20 UTC] No.45905930[source]▶
isn't Steam Deck arm based?
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8. delusional ◴[12 Nov 25 20:26 UTC] No.45906038{3}[source]▶
No. It's an AMD x64 CPU married to an onboard GPU.
9. milutinovici ◴[12 Nov 25 20:30 UTC] No.45906126{3}[source]▶
No, it's AMD based
10. gavinsyancey ◴[12 Nov 25 21:42 UTC] No.45907173[source]▶
Arch has been working with Valve on various build system improvements for some time [0], which as I understand it are targeted at making it more feasible for them to eventually support more architectures [1]. This doesn't release for several months; I wonder if there'll be an official Arch Linux ARM by then?

[0]: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-dev-public@li...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41696041