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[–] mereo@piefed.ca 49 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I suggest that you try Bazzite instead. As of now, SteamOS doesn't support Nvidia.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oh I'm poor my laptop has AMD.

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago

AMD is better than NVidia anyway

[–] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Bazzite also has a better package management system. SteamOS is meant for gaming almost exclusively, whereas Bazzite is meant for both.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

After using Bazzite, I'm convinced that image based distros are the future for end users. Need to install an app? Flatpak. Need to install command line? Homebrew.

It all installs in user space. And Flatpak at least uses an effective sandbox system.

Distros that maintain their own package spaces are duplicating a. lot. of work.

The downside of Flatpak is the disk space usage. But that doesn't matter as much to me as it used to.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago

Disk space usage isn't that bad anyway since there's some deduplication going on.

[–] Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

I ran SteamOS for a while before they made the recent announcement. It works great. Previously, just had to tell it to always boot in Desktop mode.

[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

I can chime in for Bazzite. It's imperfect, but I've blown up my fair share of aliens and they make playing your games on Linux really easy compared to anything else I've used. I can even stream the game from my desktop to a laptop in my bedroom via sunshine/moonlight which Bazzite helps you install as SteamLink doesn't play nice with Bazzite.

[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Upvote for Bazzite - the caveat being how much support the distro gets and how long it lives. That said it turned a truly piece of crap all in one hp to something that was fun in about 30 minutes. it's a good gaming OS but I wouldn't use it as my daily driver.