Meta Is Using the Linux Scheduler Designed for Valve's Steam Deck on Its Servers

Re:Meta Is Using the Linux Scheduler Designed for Valve's St... by thdrtol on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @04:43PM (#46369816)

I have a feeling this will also drag Linux mobile forwards.

Currently almost no one is using Linux for mobile because the lack or apps (banking for example) and bad hardware support. When developing for Linux becomes more and more attractive this might change.

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Re:Meta Is Using the Linux Scheduler Designed for Valve's St... by thewebguyd on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @05:33PM (#46370269)

> When developing for Linux becomes more and more attractive this might change.

If one (or maybe two) OSes win, then sure. The problem is there is no "develop for Linux" unless you are writing for the kernel.

Each distro is a standalone OS. It can have any variety of userland. You don't develop "for Linux" so much as you develop "for Ubuntu" or "for Fedora" or "for Android" etc.

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Re:Meta Is Using the Linux Scheduler Designed for Valve's St... by Zetaphor on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @04:00AM (#46373835)

This is addressed (imperfectly) by Flatpak

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Re:Meta Is Using the Linux Scheduler Designed for Valve's St... by Root_Denied on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @06:04AM (#46374492)

There's always appimages or flatpaks that could fill that cross-distro gap, though I suspect a lot of development work would need to be done to get that to a point where either of those are streamlined enough to work in the phone ecosystem.

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