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Steam Controller
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Steam Frame.
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Steam Hardware
The Steam Hardware family officially expands in early 2026.
LINUX SUPPORT WHEN THEN!?!?!?!?!?
The Steam Frame is far closer to Android (ARM64) than it is desktop Linux (x86-64). It's easier to adjust the Quest version and keep all the Android content than it is to rebuild the Win version and lose all content. Or they could pull the Android->iOS play for Win->Linux. Still very hard to do.
Who said it runs on Android? They said it can run Steam games on its own lol, it's also running some kind of steam os
Android, as far as app developers are concerned, is nothing but an alias for "ARM Linux". The Frame's SteamOS may not be a direct derivation of Android, but it has the same architecture. It takes only a few modifications to port a game from Quest to Steam Frame.
Are you an AI or how are you so confidently hallucinating all this
Do I look like AI, moron? And hallucinating what?! The architecture, the CPU architecture, is the same. Android and Frame's SteamOS are both ARM64. They are also both using a Linux kernel. It'll be far easier to port Android/Quest to Frame and keep existing content than from Windows to x86 Linux.
That is just... so wrong.. do you know what language android apps are written with? Kotlin. Desktop apps, especially games, do not use Kotlin. And Android is about as far estranged from Linux as can be, even the kernel itself is heavily modified
Well it's a good thing we're talking about VRChat, a UNITY game written in C#, rather than an ordinary app. I reiterate once again. It's easier for VRC to keep content porting to Frame than to desktop Linux. That's why we won't get Linux unless they pull the same (difficult) Android->iOS shenanigan.
Nov 13, 2025 08:10Change compile target to Linux and ARM. And apart from some API changes there's not really much else to do
