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Ayaneo next handheld is going to use SteamOS (www.dexerto.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The SteamOS pre-installed on NEXT LITE is adapted and optimized by AYANEO based on HoloISO. Users also can install Windows system by themselves after purchasing NEXT LITE, and download Windows driver from AYANEO official website.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was thinking of using Bazzite. I use Arch for my work install and have been using Arch for personal use since 2015 with Windows dual boot for gaming. Bazzite/UBlue has really surprised me and if I didn't have an Nvidia GPU I think I would've already migrated completely away from Windows with Bazzite. Container based OSes with immutable root are the future IMO.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Bazzite is great, I've used it for a good while and it's never let me down. Have it on my deck right now, in fact!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm tempted to switch to my deck to Bazzite, but I also have everything set up exactly how I want it right now and it seems like a huge pain to set everything up again.

I also know that anytime valve announces a new deck feature update I'll immediately want to check it out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Totally fair. On the updates, it's a fedora based rolling release of sorts so you get kernel updates way earlier and steam updates just as regularly as vanilla on top, pretty sure it follows the preview branch by default. I remember back when I installed it I had the new color vibrancy slider months before 3.5 hit and the new mesa with smaller shader cache sizes and whatnot too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oo, this is the first I've heard of Bazzite. I'll have to go check it out!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Lmk if you happen to need any help with it, I'm no expert but would love to lend a hand!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If I may ask, what was your motivation to run Bazzite on your deck? I'm familiar with why you'd use it on your PC (ended up having to turn back from it on my PC, as I couldn't figure out how to disable the upscaling the desktop had), or maybe a HTPC, but I haven't seen anyone mention why they install it on their deck so I am a bit interested now after seeing multiple people mention it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, the short answer is because I think it's cool and because I can haha.

The long answer is because several features I appreciate would be either impossible or extremely painful to pull off on the stock OS. In no particular order, off the top of my head:

I like the idea of having a fedora based OS that's stable but still as close to bleeding edge as it gets when it comes to the kernel, mesa and whatnot while retaining the steam niceties and getting easy rollbacks on top
Easier to customize, I have my own fork with a couple of tweaks on top of mainline Bazzite
Trying out new desktop environments comes as easy as rebasing to another image
Btrfs with compression and deduplication on by default does wonders for space savings on proton prefixes
It optionally installs Nix and it's my preferred package manager (and OS!)

For a more practical example on why I appreciate the more recent packages, I remember getting that new mesa release with considerably smaller shader caches months ago, I'm not even sure vanilla Steam OS already has it.

With all that said, it really does mostly boil down to my just feeling like tinkering a little anyway. There are cool advantages but they're pretty niche at the end of the day, I'm just the kind of nerd who loves experimenting. Hell, I'm considering test driving NixOS for the heck of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Plenty fair enough, thanks! That does remind me that I do need to look into Nix{OS} again, SteamOS does have built in support for Nix (or at least, I see there's a /nix folder by default now). Had some issues with daily driving NixOS on my desktop a while back ago, but I suppose that doesn't mean I can't use it as a package manager!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Ah, it seems they've added Nix on 3.5, that's quite nice! At the very least I love using Home Manager to basically setup everything CLI and more. Overengineered dotfiles with extra bells and whistles, if you will!

My past experiences with actually daily driving NixOS hadn't been too great either so I hear you there. I don't use it on my desktop rn because my setup is regrettably too tied to Windows atm but I sure love the thing.