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[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I'd long been mulling over what distro to switch my family computer to soon. But after years with Steam Deck and digging through so many suggestions for months, I really think I'm just going with SteamOS. Good enough.

[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Thought I'd read bazzite was forked from something no longer updating and they were possibly going to end it?

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That was probably the dramma about Fedora ending support of 32b libraries, which Steam heavily relies on and won't easily work without.

It's still being discussed, and even if they go through with it (which is a PR suicide for Fedora), it won't be earlier than in two years.

[–] quarterlife@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 week ago

It was rescinded

As far as I understand, Bazzite is a version of Universal Blue, which is a fork of Fedora Atomic.

I don't think any of that is disappearing any time soon, though I did read something about Universal Blue no longer autobuilding a bunch of different spins of the system or something. Would that be what you're thinking of?

[–] Nora@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

SteamOS isn't released/ready for desktop use yet.

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm waiting for SteamOS too. Bazzite seems to have a rough time with Nvidia cards (and HDR)

[–] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

SteamOS will have the same issues, Nvidia doesn't like to play nice on Linux.

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I expect so, but I also suspect Valve might be waiting for nvidia to get their shit together (or the open source community to do it for them) before making SteamOS officially available on desktop. I just don’t have the bandwidth to troubleshoot or follow developments around it myself

[–] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

They probably are waiting for the open source driver to be rock-solid, and it's getting there.