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[–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

And still no SteamOS3 for Desktop. Oh, Gabe, you fat liar...

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not sure why you would want a locked down OS on your desktop that overwrites your changes and uninstalls custom drivers every time it updates.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not OP but I'd like a "just works" experience if that's the deal with SteamOS 3.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I guess if everything just worked, that would be fine, but as of now they don't have drivers for wireless Xbox controllers, so you are stuck installing them manually after each software update. Plenty of software just plain isn't available via flatpak, so you have to reinstall it every software update as well, since anything you do via package manager gets deleted each time it updates.

    I just don't think they can predict everything that someone might want to do, which is why additional software exists.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Wouldn't that just be bare bones Linux with steam included? Not sure if steamos actually has tweaks over other Linux distro for gaming.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Well SteamOS is Arch based but running a LTS kernel with backported changes in a ummutable way with everything sandboxed in Flatpak so it's quite unique but idk why anyone would want to run it on their desktop, if the immutable aspect is so interesting ro you you can try Fedora Silverblue, Vanilla OS and co. but none of those is in a state that I would recommend as "just works" for a desktop experience, if that's the majore goal Debian or Fedora with Gnome are probably your best options.

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