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Gamers Nexus might start including Linux gaming tests in their hardware reviews (youtu.be)

submitted 1 day ago by azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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Pretty exciting times ahead as Valve might finally release SteamOS to more hardware. This amount of Linux desktop coverage would be unimaginable few years ago.

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[–] PetulantBandicoot@aussie.zone 9 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

SteamOS is going to have to do a lot of heavy lifting. I reckon there are quite a few people who are waiting for its release before trying Linux.

Does SteamOS even have functional desktop, or is it just Steam big picture wrapper thing?

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

Does SteamOS even have functional desktop

Unlike Windows, yes. It does.

[–] EddyBot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I reckon there are quite a few people who are waiting for its release before trying Linux.

I always recommend against it people wanting a gaming linux desktop
SteamOS being an immutable operating system works a bit different to most well known operating systems
albeit this also makes any breackage almost impossible

[–] PetulantBandicoot@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

I am pretty sure even LTT Linus said he was waiting for a SteamOS release before trying again. I was thinking, like damn dude, if you can't use PopOS, how will this be any different for you.

albeit this also makes any breackage almost impossible

Maybe, just maybe, this will stop people like him from catastrophically uninstalling their entire desktop environment.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 24 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It uses KDE for that

[–] PetulantBandicoot@aussie.zone 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yep. What I was meaning, will SteamOS boot right into KDE and be a computer operating system first, or boot into big picture mode and be a gaming system first.

[–] solarisfire@mast.solarisfire.com 1 points 59 minutes ago

@PetulantBandicoot @bdonvr It's more advanced than a "Steam Big Picture Wrapper thing". When you're in gaming mode it runs it's own gamescope window manager, etc. In desktop mode it's full plasma with KWin. I'd expect it would boot into gaming mode first, with desktop as something you can switch to.

[–] Metostopholes@midwest.social 11 points 23 hours ago

Yes, on the Steam Deck you can restart into KDE.

[–] Giloron@programming.dev 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, but it is also set up as an OS image.

I think there is a process for persistence, but without some effort, changes are lost for OS updates.

[–] skimm@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 21 hours ago

Changes aren't lost on update. If you enable a sudo user/password, and make changes to the system that way, those changes can be lost when applying the new system image.

Its an immutable Arch-based distro and you have full readwrite to your home directory and all config, settings, and files within persist.