Alt text: Trojan Horse meme, Steam Deck bringing Linux to Windows gamers
Oh my god! I thought I bought a gaming handheld but i bought.... communism!
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Excusme sir, the word is now wokeness/wokeism.
Fuck, if it's easy to mod games and run script extenders, I'll be in-Stalin it this week.
I replied one too deep. Fuck.
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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.
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.
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!
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
*guerilla
It comes from the Spanish word for "little war" and has nothing to do with apes.
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It's working, I know people who don't even own a steam deck who are considering swapping to SteamOS once it's available for desktops.
I've told them they don't need to wait and can get a similar or better experience with distros that are already available, but steam's name is gold for a lot of people and it seems like the only option they're really interested in.
Knowing that with Steams' support of Linux through proton means a vast amount of games just work out of the box was enough for me to switch to EndeavourOS.
I've been on it for a week, and I'm so sold.
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Linux is the crab of the digital world, eventually everything turns into it.
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Steam deck gave me the courage to dump Windows 10 for Endeavour OS. Very happy so far.
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Doesn't it run on Arch? Crazy to think there's a bunch of Arch users that don't say they use arch btw
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For new users that were otherwise scared of changing their daily driver, it does provide a nice little path for them.
Flip it into Desktop mode some times to get a feel for how different the DE is, play around with some command line stuff. Easy to factory reset, so mess it up if you want.
Then install something like CachyOS Handheld edition after a while to get a less restricted Linux experience, while maintaining game mode et all.
Hell, for the price, it's a great device to use as a dev machine if you do Cachy or similar. I use mine as my daily use "laptop" since my other laptop died, and was less powerful any way.
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Windows user here.
Idgaf as long as it works and isn't shit. If it has lots of cool clever stuff, all the better.
Most vendor software works the best on Windows.
Windows also generally has the best compatibility. I always keep at least one Windows 11 VM to install various things in.
Have you run some demanding games in that VM? And what virtualisation have you been using?
I've been thinking about trying that out with QEMU/KVM.
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Gaben you sneaky devil