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Valve launches the Steam Next Fest right on Windows 10 EOL because they hate me, specifically (also, distro-picking). (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Like, why Valve? I was so close to clearing out all the games I was partway through, now I need to add some demos to my backlog (not many, this Next Fest is kinda weak).

Probably could've made it but I haven't picked a distro. I'm planning on turning my desktop into a dedicated gaming computer and not daily driver, because of the malware risk. I wanted something not finicky, something devs would test on as a known quantity, and preferably something Arch-based like SteamOS.

  • Garuda (Arch-based)
  • Bazzite (Known quantity, immutable, Fedora-based, I don't trust it for some reason)
  • Nobara (Proton-adjacent distro, Fedora-based)
  • CachyOS (Super fast, Arch-based, presumably finicky?)
  • Windows 7 (Based, unsupported by steam, insecure)
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[–] 10 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

Bazzite enjoyer here:

I mean... you are free to have your preferences and opinions and such, but... I've been running Baz on my Deck for nearly a year now, works great?

Like yeah there are some oddities from trying to use it as laptop/pc via docking in more like, dev oriented scenarios, in that you need to / really should make some kind of distrobox type env to directly fuck with dependencies or try to compile something more esoteric, due to being immutable and flatpak oriented... but its generally been awesome?

I dunno, not trying to fanboy, but maybe I could answer some questions or concerns you may have?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think Bazzite is good for Linux newbies. Once you hit roadblocks (e.g. immutable files, sandboxes) you can choose to work around them or switch to a more vanilla Fedora distro. Most annoying thing I've run into, maybe not unique to Bazzite, is setting up port forwarding without having to use low-level rules that firewalld doesn't detect.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    Oh it very much is good for newbies, but... what you describe as 'roadblocks' are what I would describe as viable workarounds that maintain core OS integrity, and it has forced me to learn more about how just linux in general works, as well as docker and stuff like it.

    But yeah I will totally give you that a more traditional Fedora is probably going to be easier for someone looking for a more traditional set up and all the normal stuff that works normally, lol.

    Also yeah lol, properly setting up a low level portforward is basically always a struggle session no matter what distro you're on, at least on my experience.

    But again, a workaround to that is to just set that up for one sandboxxed env, and then act accordingly, don't cross the streams.

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