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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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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Bazzite for the past two days has not been as easy as everyone makes of sound, and I say this as a software engineer that works with Linux 5 days a week. Some of the UI choices are just weird and VR support with Nvidia is so horrible I may end up having to dual boot.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Made the switch a few days ago. A couple growing pains but I'm playing beat saber with mods again. Which is all I was doing on windows lately anyway lol.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yeah apparently the current fix is to just get an AMD card or a wireless headset. I'm trying to get a steam vr alternative running which is non trivial on bazzite, but it just "avoids" the bugs in the nvidia wired drivers

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Really interesting to hear a different story. I'm running Kubuntu, but have been trying to find an excuse to use Bazzite. Maybe I'll keep searching for that excuse for a bit longer.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Running the version that boots into big picture with a Radeon card has been fantastic, however the Nvidia desktop version has left a sour taste in my mouth.

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