- Are those things the Steam client or the OS? Because power levels sounds like an OS config.
- This didn't answer my question. Does the Steam app not work on ROG Ally Windows?
- Sure, they may be waiting for an official release but that's a far cry from "Valve needs to allow third party vendors to use SteamOS" which is solely what I'm asking about.
- Nothing in that article backs up your claim that Valve needs to do work on the proprietary Steam client to allow third party vendors to use it in SteamOS. It implies that Valve is interested in doing work in SteamOS to make it palatable to third party vendors because Valve doesn't think they'd be willing to write their own driver support (drivers having nothing to do with the Steam client, of course).
- IMO opinion, there are 3 reasons that Asus chose Windows for the Ally, and none of them have anything to do with Valve allowing them to use SteamOS. They're more comfortable with Windows, Windows has access to more games, and Microsoft probably paid them (which is a thing Microsoft does and it's not a secret). Valve doing work to maintain Linux drivers for third-party vendors will only partially solve the first reason, but it won't address the second two.
To be
abundantly clear, my contention is that Valve needs to
allow third parties to use SteamOS because the claim makes no sense to me. I'm not gonna argue that Valve can't do work to
encourage third parties to use SteamOS, because they obviously can because very few people in this world
want to write their own Linux drivers for weird custom hardware.
I'm only asking because the claim was strange enough that I needed to check if I was missing something, which at this point seems like the answer is 'no'.