Alt text: Trojan Horse meme, Steam Deck bringing Linux to Windows gamers
You’ve got a friend in horse!
It’s not Linux it’s steam os…
You are kidding, right? Right?
Yes I was hence the “…” , least a few people got to have the satisfaction of being right on the internet above having a laugh
I believe the “…” had very different meanings from country to country. At least in my experience. In my country its an indication of something bad. Such as:
“I just missed the train by 1min…”
or
“I crashed my car today…”
Which is downstream from Arch. Checkmate atheists
Opinion: Games that have “linux support” but explicitly check for Steam Deck hardware should have a disclaimer on the store page or even have their Steam Deck verified status revoked.
You know some games that do that?
There’s a post every so often on !linux_gaming@lemmy.world
😮
Buddy of mine mentioned how talking about computers with me always eventually leads to Linux yesterday.
Yup. Fussing around in Desktop mode (aka handheld Arch) got me into it. It was weirdly easy to get Phantasy Star Online Ephinea working with luteix, and that game was easily one of my favorite Deck experiences running on 3W of power lol.
web dev 🤝 steam deck
When they bring a desktop version of steamOS to market… it’s gonna be a dark day for MS share holders.
I used my deck as my main computer when I was traveling earlier this year (I don’t have a laptop). I brought a small keyboard, no mouse, was able to do everything I needed. It’s convinced me I can easily make the switch I’m just waiting to move now and get a laptop when I’m out of tarrif-land
This is actually how it happened for me.
Gaben you sneaky devil
Gnu manifesto + linux
I got a Steam Deck recently and hadn’t dabbled in Linux since the Raspberry Pi 3 like 7 years ago. It’s so much easier with a gui instead of command prompts! And now I see what all the fuss over Proton was about - it’s amazing how many Windows games just work!
Steam deck was the main draw of moving away from windows after the security updates for 10 end in october
Steam in general, TBH.
It’s working, I know people who don’t even own a steam deck who are considering swapping to SteamOS once it’s available for desktops.
I’ve told them they don’t need to wait and can get a similar or better experience with distros that are already available, but steam’s name is gold for a lot of people and it seems like the only option they’re really interested in.
While this would be great, it’s also a little unfortunate, since the general desktop experience on Steam Deck is IIRC currently a bit below other comparable distros, and I’d hate for people to get an incomplete picture of what the Linux desktop experience can be like. Hopefully the time that’s led up to the wider release of SteamOS has been spent on getting that desktop experience up to snuff.
Desktop experience is just KDE, only part that I’m worried will trip people up is it being immutable. Usually that’s fine, but occasionally you run into an issue where something doesn’t work because of flatpak sandboxing, and it can be confusing how to overcome it.
And there’s stuff that just can’t be made into a Flatpak. Someone mentioned in another thread that they wanted to use Waydroid on their deck, Bazzite has it built in but Steam OS doesn’t - maybe there’s a way to layer it on SteamOS but that’s sort of tricky to do (idk I don’t have a Steam Deck but I run Bazzite on my laptop).
https://github.com/ryanrudolfoba/SteamOS-Waydroid-Installer
Not disagreeing with your point, but at least for waydroid there’s a specific SteamOS installer available.
I discovered if you go down the rabbit hole of nix you can install and use anything you want through nix and it just installs works and is permanent unlike someways of using pacman
Distrobox is also a good option for installing stuff without flatpak.
Knowing that with Steams’ support of Linux through proton means a vast amount of games just work out of the box was enough for me to switch to EndeavourOS.
I’ve been on it for a week, and I’m so sold.
Yeah, I had mostly stayed away from arch based distros after having a really bad time with Manjaro. But hearing the Steam Deck’s version of SteamOS was switching to an Arch base got me to try Endeavour on my desktop, and I’ve been using it ever since.
Manjaro has been one of the worst Arch-based distros I have used so far. It broke constantly, where normal Arch wouldn’t. Also, it’s just not a good look when their website certificate runs out and they tell users to turn back the clock a few days until they fix it (archive link, changed to this). Also it expired again a year later (archive)
Same. (Are you me?)
I am indeed you. You, or rather we, are having a mental breakdown due to the tumultuous journey of installing and using an Arch based Linux distro.
Jk, I just hit install and it worked. Pretty nifty. Don’t forget to eos-update!
