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1173 points davikr | 2 comments | 12 Nov 25 17:59 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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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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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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1. 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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2. 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 :)