It may work, but there are software dependencies that will become end of life. The first to go will probably be the GPU drivers. In 10 years or so, Linux will discontinue the GPU drivers and you will not be able to run the latest Linux kernel.
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I think SteamOS does automatic firmware updates so you would have to make sure you don’t unexpectedly lock it up
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Very strange scale, people facing criminal charges for hateful or violent Facebook posts in Europe is considered as bad as silencing political journalism.
There’s comment on how many people in the UK are facing charges over this, but every country in Europe enforces hate speech laws. Seems very biased towards mainstream headlines about the nazi thug riots in UK.
I think both windows and Linux turn on a number of kernel hardening options when secure boot is on.
Usually there is an issue with glibc or Mesa compatibility.
…Does this game use Mesa?
Yeah i agree with you, but there is a limit to community support. The Steam Deck specifically has a big community, but most hobbyists don’t like to spend a ton of time maintaining ancient hardware drivers.
I believe my 11 year old Thinkpad T540p still runs mainline kernels too. The GPU is not supported by the 2018 Intel Iris userspace driver though, so I would need to run a legacy driver that does not support vulkan. Its still packaged by Arch, but it does limit my options.
I’d say 10 years until new games stop running with all features, and 20-30 years until it stops running mainline kernels and loses network access to Steam.
Other handhelds with closed-source drivers probably stop running mainline in 5-10 years.