Highlighting some of the key changes Collabora worked on with Valve to improve the system update tooling on SteamOS.
  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzMEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    I’m surprised I haven’t heard much about Collabora partnering with Valve before now. From reading their articles about it, it sounds like they’re largely responsible for the Deck’s update framework and for pressure-vessel which is designed to provide a standard linux container for games to run inside of (think of it like a flatpak but just for steam games).

    • Laser@feddit.de
      4·
      2 years ago

      Collabora has been quite active in the field, e.g. they’re the prime developers of WINE’s current Wayland solution. So it makes sense for Valve to partner up with them.

    • woelkchen@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      IIRC SteamOS development is mostly outsourced to contractors like Collabora and Blue Systems with Valve having only a handful of people to oversee the development and the occasional in-house developer.

  • vanderbilt@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 years ago

    Call me out if I’m wrong, but my Deck is noticeably snappier after this update. TF2 is also smoother, which is weird considering the game hasn’t changed visually at all. Not even an update notice of anything major.

        • SuperIce@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          2 years ago

          You seem to have a misunderstanding of how Bazzite works. It’s just a custom Fedora Atomic spin that includes things like the deck firmware updates, drivers, and gamescope. It does not run SteamOS in a container.