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penquin@lemm.ee 5 days agoMan, you know what I’ve been dying to do? Build a steam machine and connect it to my TV in my bedroom. That would be epic. Find a smaller PC or collect some used parts from Facebook market place and slap BazziteOS on it and go to town.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Hell yeah! That sounds dope! I have computers connected to all of my screen in our house, but they’re moooostly running Windows 10. Just a couple pis running Linux… the GUI on a Pi5 is laggy but it runs 1080p YouTube perfectly so that’s fine. I should start converting my machines to Linux… my main game machines I think I’ll keep on Windows 10 until Linux is closer to 100% compatibility. It’s getting there!
penquin@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Honestly, good job. Fucking tvs nowadays are absolute garbage anyway. So are those stupid little fire sticks and their likes. If you think Linux doesn’t fully work for you (understandable), Check out Titus’s debloat tool. Make yourself a micro windows 11 ISO and use it instead of the official build. I got one running in a dualboot setup, and it’s extremely light. You may be missing some drivers, but they’re easily installable. I’ve been thinking of this, too, myself. Tvs have some of the most spying software ever.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Thank you! I think I’m gonna ride Win10 until it’s Jo longer supported, then go Win10 LTSC IoT until I’m comfortable switching all of my machines to Pop!. I play a VERY SPECIFIC 20+ year old Half Life mod with some folks that my Software Engineer friend has been unable to get working on Linux in any manner… so unfortunately I am tied to Windows. I could dual-boot but I don’t want any boot loader headaches, and our main machines exist pretty much solely to play games hahaha. I do debloat with OOSU10, I’ll scope Titus’s tool!
You’re SO not wrong about TVs being a complete privacy nightmare. No chance I’m letting em have ny WiFi info!
penquin@lemm.ee 4 days ago
No worries. I understand. If you ever decide to dualboot, I’d highly suggest you separate the two OSs into their own SSDs, that way you won’t get any bootloader headaches at all. Whenever windows updates and takes over the bootloader, you get into your bios and change the boot sequence to boot into the Linux drive. From there you re-enable OS prober in grub, update grub, and boom you’re in. This is how I’ve been doing it to avoid all the bootloader headaches.