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[–] MoogMuskie 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I didn't agree with it being a paid product either. And I might have been misunderstanding so don't take my word on this, but I think it was originally open source and free (at least in money, not sure about freedom) ~~for those running Bazzite~~ and primarily designed for Bazzite Linux and that they planned to keep supporting that version, so I feel like all that would do for the Steam Deck is incentivize people to install Bazzite Linux on it so that it would be free.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

It's available as a open source Decky plugin, but the steam version was going to be a paid closed source rewrite.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've installed it on a Chimera machine also via Decky so I don't think it's distro specific.

[–] MoogMuskie 3 points 1 day ago

Oh yeah, I didn't mean to make it sound like it was distro-speciffic, I just think that Bazzite was the primary platform target originally (but I might be wrong)