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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

+1 for Bazzite. It has just enough guard rails to keep you from (easily) making your system unusable while still providing more freedom than windows. Install is cake. Literally clear a drive or partition for your OS and storage, download it, and you're off to the races. just make sure to always check your build against protondb For games to see if there are any special run commands to put into steam, and you will be golden.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah I can't say I've used it myself but it seems pretty straightforward and very in line with SteamOS philosophies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Very much so. Even for non-gaming, most stuff works out of the box from the package manager, everything else you can get working with a distrobox. Ended up getting blender to work better on Bazzite with AMD GPU rendering than I could on Windows lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Would I fuck myself over by putting it on a partition on the same drive as my Windows install? It's my fastest hard drive, but I can't just immediately give up everything I have on Windows.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I hav heard that there can be issues with windows updates messing up Bazzite if installed on the same drive. I got a separate drive just for my Bazzite install to be on the safe side.