Kinda. SteamOS is open source, so it's not really walled.

It's possible they deferred making generic drivers to release faster and those will come out later,kinda like steamOS windows drivers came out later

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tapoxi 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The driver exists in the proprietary Steam client, not in SteamOS itself.

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drakythe 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

As someone else said, the driver is in Steam, not SteamOS. Even on a Steam Deck you have to run Steam in desktop mode to have the buttons on the deck work.

	▲	throwaway314155 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Even on a Steam Deck you have to run Steam in desktop mode to have the buttons on the deck work. That's not true. You get a reduced functionality controller with trackpads that can still be used to start steam back up.

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maccard 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Does that mean that chrome for non standard behaviours are ok because chrome is open source?