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With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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Windows Was The Problem All Along - Dave2D

We could obviously compare performance between windows and steamOS before on the steam deck, or between windows and Bazzite on other handhelds. But this is the first time we have had official windows and SteamOS builds for the same hardware.

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[+] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

So? That still doesn't change the fact that SteamOS is a stripped down version of Linux that can't do everything a Linux computer can do.

So the comparison is flawed.

It is like comparing a Swiss army knife to a regular knife. The regular knife is going to be better at cutting, but it won't do any of the other things a Swiss army knife can do

[–] chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

no.

SteamOS is based on Arch, which is what I'm running right now.

Arch comes with the kernel, a package manager, some generic drivers to get you started, and a CLI. That's it. Zero bloat. You then add what you need/want on top of it.

It's not "stripped down", it's not hobbled for the sake of extra performance, it actually has more system components than my daily driver. You can get ahold of the recovery ISO and go install it on any box, it's not really super specialized beyond supporting video games.

hell i have a friend who slaps steamos on everything anymore because it works out of the box everywhere and does everything just fine. it's absolutely not some hobbled abnormal linux, it's a fully featured OS that does everything just fine.

"De-bloating" and "stripping down" are things Windows users do, because Windows is bloated and fucky and awful. That's just not a thing on Linux dude.