I guess you could do a linux exclusive?
sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How would that even work? It’s literally a PC. It runs Linux. It’s as open a system as you’re going to get.
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 day ago
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If this was oracle/microsoft there would be a publicly available environment variable you can just set as work-around but is technically illegal.
madthumbs@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s supposed to eliminate the issues of Linux like unstable ABI/API, and fragmentation. -But like with Steamdeck, it’s probably going to have people saying they do more tinkering than actual gaming. Real PC gamers use Windows.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 6 hours ago
Lol GTFO.
I have used windows starting with windows 3.0, up to Windows 10 because of gaming. My PC is here JUST for gaming, except for stuff like the web and very,very light office work once a month or so, and running LLMs/GenAI for shits and giggles.
You know what I’m running nowadays?
Nobara (Fedora spinoff, because they have NVidia based installations)
And i haven’t seen any performance or stability issues, even tho i used multiple different NVidia cards on this machine, using a PCIe Wifi6 card and and extra PCIe controller to increase my limited NVME space.
Not once has any of the components on my PC acted up, asked for driver installations or something similar, outside of me having to reinstall the graphics and mesa drivers after upgrading from Nobara 40 to 41, and that was because i ran out of space on my boot partition and i didn’t realize it at first.
If you aren’t in the crowd which plays mainly games with Anticheat (and that’s not because of Linux but because of the decisions made by the publishers), Linux is the way to go. I can run games from the DOS era just as well as i can play the latest titles, and emulation support is actually better than on windows with things like Retrodeck. If something doesn’t work, i very often have the option of just dropping by on Github/Gitlab/Codeberg and get help there or simply report a bug that will often get fixed way faster than Microsoft would drop me a “please reboot and if it doesn’t work recover windows” answer on their boards.
If you value gaming, you should value Linux. Because it always was the OS that was ideologically closer to what gamers wanted - and nowadays it’s technically closer.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Real dumb ones.
I spent more time “tinkering” on windows after some updates to figure out how to set it back to how I want it after some update silently resets things to default or moves some setting for no good reason. And then there’s the “hey please use our shit software that you went out of your way to install an alternative to… no? Ok, I’ll ask later” full screen ads, ads in the start menu, ignoring default search engine or browser settings when it could. It was a hostile user experience.
Linux has been such a better experience that windows shills like you are a complete joke. Though interesting that you used hedging language here and talk about “people saying they do more tinkering than actual gaming” rather than “people doing more tinkering than actual gaming”, almost as if you know you’re full of shit but are trying to avoid outright lying for some reason.
madthumbs@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
‘Ok, I’ll ask later" full screen ads, ads in the start menu, ignoring default search engine or browser settings when it could. It was a hostile user experience.’
Propaganda, or easy to turn off permanently.
‘Windows shill’
Yes, that’s why I suggest Haiku, BSD, Harmony, and Mac.
The propaganda is strong with you.
uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 1 day ago
Not providing a terminal and desktop environment, for instance? Locking down the BIOS? What would it matter if it ran Linux if you could never leave Steam Big Picture?
TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today 1 day ago
You could still buy the game on other pcs so it wouldn’t be exclusive to steamOS
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
You little have reporters thinking it is a console.