The Linux handheld Steam Deck utilizes a lot of open source software, the operating system is based on Arch Linux, the desktop environment KDE Plasma, other Mesa drivers and Vulkan API, and the Proton compatibility layer of the branch of Wine. Valve also knows that the success of Steam Deck cannot be separated from open source software and open source developers. Valve pays salaries to more than a hundred open source developers, the company’s designers revealed in interviews. These developers should not be employees of Valve. The designer says the move is part of Valve’s overall Linux gaming strategy, which is to make Linux a viable alternative to Windows in gaming. Linux kernel author Linus Torvalds once said that Valve will save the Linux desktop. Maybe 2023 is going to be the year of the Linux desktop.
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