I bought a Steam Deck and got Win 11 up and running on an external SSD just to piss off the raven. :)
The fact is that certain things require Windows, and yeah, you might be able to jump through some hoops to get them to kinda/sorta run under Linux, but if you have a hard time with Windows, you’ll never be able to do that in Linux.
I also gave it a shot, but 2 days later went back. On handhelds, SteamOS is objectively better OS. Overlays, performance monitoring, power management etc.
But I keep seeing people who want SteamOS on desktops. Why? I seriously don’t see any advantages to that over any other Linux distro with KDE+Steam. And no, Sleep isn’t an argument because that is tied to the Deck hardware and probably wouldn’t work properly on a regular x86 desktop
Right? I always find it weird people want SteamOS, from my experience, all distros are “gaming distros”, just install your drivers if not already installed, then install the game through something like Lutris, Heroic, or Steam.
I play on Debian 12 (used to be 11) exclusively through Lutris/Native, and it works flawlessly.
I bought a Steam Deck and got Win 11 up and running on an external SSD just to piss off the raven. :)
The fact is that certain things require Windows, and yeah, you might be able to jump through some hoops to get them to kinda/sorta run under Linux, but if you have a hard time with Windows, you’ll never be able to do that in Linux.
I also gave it a shot, but 2 days later went back. On handhelds, SteamOS is objectively better OS. Overlays, performance monitoring, power management etc.
But I keep seeing people who want SteamOS on desktops. Why? I seriously don’t see any advantages to that over any other Linux distro with KDE+Steam. And no, Sleep isn’t an argument because that is tied to the Deck hardware and probably wouldn’t work properly on a regular x86 desktop
Right? I always find it weird people want SteamOS, from my experience, all distros are “gaming distros”, just install your drivers if not already installed, then install the game through something like Lutris, Heroic, or Steam.
I play on Debian 12 (used to be 11) exclusively through Lutris/Native, and it works flawlessly.