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Valve's plan to bring SteamOS to more devices is a promising sign if you want to stop gaming on Windows (www.pcguide.com)

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Even gamers nexus' Steve today said that they're about to start doing Linux games performance testing soon. It's happening, y'all, the year of the Linux desktop is upon us. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

A Linux distro with a great OOTB experience for gamers would go a long way.

Steam pre-installed
trustworthy Flatpak packages for popular gamer apps like Discord (not uploaded by some nameless rando)
- TeamSpeak for curmudgeons like me and my friends
desktop environment tailored to Windows users
auto-install and configure graphics drivers for AMD and Nvidia
configurable automatic updates and system backup
choice between Chromium, Firefox, etc. for default browser during setup
included in Steam Deck compatibility testing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I was so impressed with Garuda that I adopted it for my primary workstation OS even though I’m using the “gaming edition”.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I've been using Nobara and its been awesome. I wanted a fairly standard desktop with a gaming focus and it fit the bill. It even managed to automatically get the power saving sorted for my laptop which has a nvidia GPU. Great distro.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago

Bazzite

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Luckily for you this already exists, and it's effectively SteamOS:

https://bazzite.gg/

You can even put this on a Steam Deck as a drop-in replacement.

[–] AlligatorBlizzard 18 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Bazzite is fantastic and it's what I'm running on my gaming laptop, but I've always wondered why you would want to put it on a Steam Deck? Is it for the people who use it as a laptop replacement?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Beca*se I’m tired of using an ancient version of KDE Plasma?