X and SteamOS

Posted Sep 19, 2014 10:32 UTC (Fri) by robbe (guest, #16131)
In reply to: X and SteamOS by raven667
Parent article: X and SteamOS

SteamOS being its own distribution won't be affected by the defaults of others.

Steam on (regular) Linux will be affected, but, it being much more niche, maybe Valve foresees no big pressure when it breaks. If it breaks at all.

X and SteamOS

Posted Sep 19, 2014 13:47 UTC (Fri) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link]

yeah, that is nice in theory, but it usually doesn't work out that way in the longer term. If you use something nobody else does, it will start breaking - because nobody notices. Think about Mesa, drivers, input devices perhaps... Once apps start to appear exclusively written on Wayland and never tested on X, things will break.