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Steam Ate Microsoft's Lunch On PC, It's About To Do The Same On Handhelds (kotaku.com)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Things which are holding this back

Collaboration with OEMs to provide SteamOS OTTB (Lenovo is an exception)
Nvidia support. Most gamers use Nvidia GPU unfortunately
Certain industry-standard software which don't have a Linux port. PSA: Most people don't want to learn alt software. Johnny Mainstream is scared of new softwares. This cannot be changed
End-users suffer from choice paralysis and Linux offers endless choice. Maybe SteamOS can help.

What we know so far, SteamOS won't be a general purpose OS, so it might not support every random piece of h/w.

We might not have the year of the Linux Desktop, but we can expect 2025-2026 to be the year of the Linux handheld.

SRC: Linux fanboy for the last decade

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Nvidia works flawlessly in my system, didn't have to tweak anything.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Choice paralysis is a surprisingly big issue. I'm waiting for the parts for my new gaming PC build to arrive, and the amount of time I've spent choosing a distro has been asinine.
But I did make the choice to leave both the NVIDIA and Windows eco systems on my desktop after seeing most my games run fine on the steam deck ( along with disliking windows 11, and NVIDIA ending gamestream support)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

As the saying goes, you have to use arch or you have a small penis

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Hey! Some of us manage both.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Distro doesn’t really matter too much. Just don’t get some obscure distro that no one has heard of before.

Plus it’s pretty common for newbies to jump around to test out different distros anyway.

Most of the time, the differences you will see are just desktop environment.

After you have used Linux for some time, then you will understand the major differences between the distros other than the way they look.

If you have any questions about Linux feel free to send me a DM. I’m always happy to help.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Surprisingly for a choice that I realize doesn't really matter, it still ends up burning alot of time researching.

Intially looked at Bazzite, which seemed great other than I wasn't a fan of it immutability, I've had to remove the read-only property from my steam deck a few times.

Then I looked at CatchyOS/Arch, decided to avoid that as I know I'm too lazy to read notes every update, and while I don't mind tinkering and fixing stuff.. I want it to be on my schedule lol.

Avoiding Debian, my server currently runs it, but I remember it giving me headaches installing older JREs on it to run modded minecraft servers.

So I'm going to try OpenSuse, not for any real valid reason other than the last time I tried Linux as my daily driver ( 2004/2005) it was the first distro that worked smoothly without any driver headaches.