FYI the abandoned text editor, markdown editor and overall tool Atom had an open source fork called Pulsar that is on Flathub which is what Steam OS uses for the Discover “app store”. Pulsar is also supported on Mac and Windows https://pulsar-edit.dev/download/#latest-version.

https://flathub.org/en/apps/dev.pulsar_edit.Pulsar

https://docs.pulsar-edit.dev/using-pulsar/

https://docs.pulsar-edit.dev/using-pulsar/packages/

Check it out!

https://docs.pulsar-edit.dev/getting-started/what-is-pulsar/#title

https://packages.pulsar-edit.dev/packages

Back in 2014, GitHub launched a cross-platform, free, and open-source text editor called Atom. To accomplish the tall task of supporting several operating systems from a single codebase, the Atom developers created an application framework that joined the Chromium browser engine onto Node.js. At the time, they called it Atom Shell.

Over time, the functionality of Atom Shell would expand, eventually becoming its own project called Electron. Electron would surpass Atom itself in popularity, becoming the platform of choice for software like GitHub Desktop, Visual Studio Code, Discord, and Slack.

Atom’s momentum slowed somewhat in 2018 when GitHub was purchased by Microsoft. Releases continued, but no new major features followed, and the editor entered a long twilight period before its official sunset at the end of 2022.

Atom’s official sunset day was the same day as the first beta release of Pulsar. The Pulsar core team largely consisted of former contributors to the atom-community organization. The team grew a new community and attracted new maintainers in order to turn Pulsar into the editor it is today: a successor to Atom that shares its philosophy of being a community-led, hyper-hackable text editor.

Atom was a really nice tool that was abandoned, and it is pretty damn cool to be able to get it on a Steam Device so easy!