Honestly, what would you get out of SteamOS anyway? Just install Linux, set up the drivers you need, launch Steam at startup, and default it to Big Picture Mode.
Boom, SteamOS.
I dunno but I tried that and it didn’t work at all. Had to go searching around online for how to even install a damn game. Then when I launched it, the game started running at like 2FPS.
The same game runs on the same PC on Windows at 144FPS.
And that’s the story of the time I tried to game on Linux.
Installing games is same as Windows, download and launch via Steam. As for lack of FPS, willing to bet you had an Nvidia card but didn't install the drivers for it.
Installing games is same as Windows
So it sounds a lot like you’ve never actually done this before because that’s factually incorrect.
As for lack of FPS, willing to bet you had an Nvidia card but didn’t install the drivers for it.
Wrong again.
You click the game on Steam, click "install". That's the same on Windows or Linux, the client doesn't change.
Going from 144fps to 2fps sounds like a graphics driver issue, what was the problem then?
So it sounds a lot like you’ve never actually done this before because that’s factually incorrect.
As a long time openSUSE user I know for a fact that you’re wrong.
I dunno but I tried that and it didn’t work at all. Had to go searching around online for how to even install a damn game.
Just for shits and giggles I fired up a VM and did a clean Steam installation from Flathub. This is the default:
Steam Play (=Proton) is on for supported Windows games. For unsupported games it’s off.
Had to go searching around online for how to even install a damn game.
Wait, you had so much trouble to look if the “Enable Steam Play” checkbox was ticked? 🙄
Yet another person missing the point 🤦
Yet another person missing the point 🤦
Nah, we all get the point. You claim that Steam does not come with Proton on regular Linux distributions but you’re wrong which is an easily googlable fact you continue to deny. If your installation of Steam is somehow broken, that’s specific to you. At most the “Enable Steam Play” checkbox has to be ticked in Steam’s settings.
bioemerl@kbin.social 7 months ago
Steam OS is a lot more powerful than big picture
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
In what way?
My desktop with endeavour OS and SteamDeck can do all the same things… In fact doing some things is more tricky because it’s limited to installing flatpaks.
bioemerl@kbin.social 7 months ago
That's the advantage. A PC with a layer on top is a PC with a layer on top. It still wants you to have a mouse and keyboard. You still have to update it like a normal desktop PC.
Steam OS is controller and controller only. It's a no bullshit durable system designed to be put on a box and just leave it that way.
You can do the same things, but I'm not putting a norma lLinux box running steam under my TV.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Except SteamOS is also just “a linux box running steam”… The only differences I’m hearing you wanting is immutability, and discrete version updates instead of a bunch of package upgrades. There are several immutable distros, and updates can be made painless in a variety of ways.
The SteamOS UI is big picture mode now. Since some update or other, the old big picture mode from SteamOS 1.0 got updated to the SteamDeck UI for desktop as well.
XyliaSky@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
SteamOS is Steam running Big Picture mode on a modified and limited Linux distribution based on Arch, with not much else going on. There is some weird shit with the compositor, but you can replicate that on any other Linux system.
It’s quite literally nothing special. The only reason to want it on Desktop is to save a few minutes of setup for a machine you intend to only run Steam games.
Telorand@reddthat.com 7 months ago
Right, and I never said it was only Big Picture. What can it do that Linux + Big Picture can’t?
IronSage@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Its a fair take, but the “game mode” where the is is running gamescope allows valve to do some magic that’s not super possible with the current big picture
mykneedoesnthurt@kbin.social 7 months ago
Does it have more oomph? More chutzpah? More mileage? More HP? More pep in its step? More ability to go the distance? More firepower? More brass? More boldness? More flavor?
bioemerl@kbin.social 7 months ago
Yes