Alt text: Trojan Horse meme, Steam Deck bringing Linux to Windows gamers

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  • @[email protected]
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    8915 days ago

    Firstly: I feel seen.

    Secondly: it’s working, SteamOS is so nice. I haven’t been this interested in Linux since the XP to 7 transfer. And I think imma’ actually do it this time.

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      7315 days ago

      It’s almost like an OS that wants to be useful is a better experience than an OS that wants to push you ads and steal everything you produce to feed into llm slop-generation.

      • @[email protected]
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        15 days ago

        This is a lie! Nobody should read his comment, instead they should check out Raid Shadow Legends the epic, turn-based RPG that’s taken the mobile gaming world by storm!

        • @[email protected]
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          1815 days ago

          I haven’t actually seen a raid ad in years at this point. (Except your hopefully ironic comment, so good job unironically promoting them)

          I don’t know if it’s just my sponsorblock + adblock combo or if their gorilla advertising has fallen off, and at this point I’m too afraid to ask

      • @[email protected]
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        -115 days ago

        Meh, there’s pretty easy (and legit) ways around the bullshit that makes managing it take less time than I had to spend making my Mint install work properly.

    • @[email protected]
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      1015 days ago

      I’m in the same boat. I am really not interested in Windows 11 at all, especially after using it at work. My primary hesitation has been video game playability in the past but the steam deck has really expanded how many games are playable on Linux and I also play a lot more games on consoles than I did a few years ago

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        615 days ago

        I was you. I installed Mint and the only issue I had was with a hard drive that was being shared by both systems (dual booting) that had all my games on it. It was a symlink issue.

        Bite the bullet. The startup time alone is worth it.

        • @[email protected]
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          415 days ago

          I’m probably going to do a trial run of Bazzite on my secondary computer to see how much does and doesn’t work and make my decision based on that

    • @[email protected]
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      415 days ago

      A good UI/UX is what Linux needs most to get people to switch. Valve has the money to pour into actually making something people want to use. Now I just hope the desktop release gets the same polish.

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        815 days ago

        Linux has plenty of good UIs… KDE, Budgie, XFCE, Cinnamon, GNOME, etc. Literally no shortage of desktop environments.

      • @[email protected]
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        315 days ago

        It needs a decent UX, but most importantly it needs binary compatibility. No pleb will compile from source.

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          115 days ago

          That too, but I don’t expect that to be a problem after it’s been out for more than a few weeks.

          Currently it’s based off of Arch right? Are there many compatibility issues with its current form?

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      111 days ago

      Same. I didn’t realise it at the time but the steam deck led to the media PC, which led to the laptop and finally the gaming rig fell. I dual booted but haven’t gone back in so long i am now eyeing up the windows disks to get more space.

      Today I found Organic Maps, which seems a nice FOSS alternative to Google. Freedom feels good.