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Like, why Valve? I was so close to clearing out all the games I was partway through, now I need to add some demos to my backlog (not many, this Next Fest is kinda weak).
Probably could've made it but I haven't picked a distro. I'm planning on turning my desktop into a dedicated gaming computer and not daily driver, because of the malware risk. I wanted something not finicky, something devs would test on as a known quantity, and preferably something Arch-based like SteamOS.
- Garuda (Arch-based)
- Bazzite (Known quantity, immutable, Fedora-based, I don't trust it for some reason)
- Nobara (Proton-adjacent distro, Fedora-based)
- CachyOS (Super fast, Arch-based, presumably finicky?)
- Windows 7 (Based, unsupported by steam, insecure)
Bazzite for the past two days has not been as easy as everyone makes of sound, and I say this as a software engineer that works with Linux 5 days a week. Some of the UI choices are just weird and VR support with Nvidia is so horrible I may end up having to dual boot.
Made the switch a few days ago. A couple growing pains but I'm playing beat saber with mods again. Which is all I was doing on windows lately anyway lol.
Yeah apparently the current fix is to just get an AMD card or a wireless headset. I'm trying to get a steam vr alternative running which is non trivial on bazzite, but it just "avoids" the bugs in the nvidia wired drivers
Running the version that boots into big picture with a Radeon card has been fantastic, however the Nvidia desktop version has left a sour taste in my mouth.
For VR apparently AMD is the way to go, but they don't have HDR for hdmi 2.1 so no matter what there are tradeoffs currently, at least on my setup
Really interesting to hear a different story. I'm running Kubuntu, but have been trying to find an excuse to use Bazzite. Maybe I'll keep searching for that excuse for a bit longer.
To be honest, a lot of my issues are probably just getting used to plasma over gnome. The atomic part so far hasn't really been inconvenient