• Vilian@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    the steam deck drivers are being upstream to mesa and the linux kernel, no?, meybe they are using a pre-build before the code get merged, but every steam deck fix is being merged(mesa, radv, even the kernel got a lot of fixes for it)

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      1 year ago

      Here’s a list of the non-free software packages used in an older version of the OS.

      Briefly: graphics, wireless drivers, firmware etc. The hardware is non-free although designed for to be user servicable, which is a great first step.

      You’re right that open graphics support exists, but they’re using proprietary binary drivers.