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Have an AMD GPU? You can build your own SteamOS Steam Machine (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 3 points 4 months ago (13 children)

Gabecube is very nice and open compared to a normal console, but if you're coming from a pc, it's the opposite in some ways. I personally would not want an os built around an online login.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Or atomic.. I love tinkering too much

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    You can have immuability without loosing tinkering possibilities. I do that on NixOS.

    The more I learn the more I don't want flatpaks on my machine so of course I am requiring something else than SteamOS or bazzite.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah that's another one I'm fine with flatpaks depending on the application but in most cases give me my native packages

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    The thing is that Flatpak failed at providing good sandboxing. Some flatpaks are well made such as as Firefox, Mozilla really put effort into getting something well packaged but unfortunately that's not the standard. Most of them are packaged like shit or for the better ones they are not as well packages as the distro official packages that have stronger quality assurance. Of course many apps only have debian or arch support and flatpaks does bring wider Linux based OS support which is cool and I do run some flatpaks on my devices.

    But I hope we will have something better that will properly be sandboxed and have stronger requirements for packager to offer a global GNU/Linux publishing experience regardless of the distro, even if it comes with some drawbacks like size.

    I am not hating on flatpaks but I think people over estimate the sandbox aspect and simply don't see how poorly most of them are packaged.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    The OS is not built around any login. It just boots straight into Steam by default. This is the experience consumers expect from a console. But of course you can just exit it, and since it's Linux you can even disable it entirely.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    The OS requires an online login?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I don't know if the OS exactly requires an online login, but it basically boots into the Steam client, and that won't do you much good without a Steam account.

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