without any distro or configuration caveats.

In those cases, they generally have the Ubuntu version that’s supported in the specs section

If an attacker gets access to your system, they will be able to ensure you can’t get rid of their access

It will persist across operating system installs

However, this requires them to get access first

From how well they’ve done with their upstreams, like the kernel and Mesa, I expect they will happily accept patches from their downstream

Valve hires lots of developers to improve graphics drivers for all Linux users

SteamOS is currently on kernel 6.1, a lot of the changes they’ve made have gotten merged into upstream which is at 6.7

A few changes they’ve made for their specific hardware have ended up causing regressions for other hardware, so it still needs more code review and testing before everything is completely upstream

HoloISO appears to be a rebuild from source of SteamOS

“Holo” is the code name for the current SteamOS version