Comment on Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS
Ulrich@feddit.org 5 weeks agoNo, their Micro-compositor was written exclusively for AMD cards.
Because NVIDIA drivers suck. That’s on Nvidia, not Linux or Valve.
Comment on Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS
Ulrich@feddit.org 5 weeks agoNo, their Micro-compositor was written exclusively for AMD cards.
Because NVIDIA drivers suck. That’s on Nvidia, not Linux or Valve.
pathief@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Sure, nvidia drivers suck and I haven’t had the best experience migrating to Wayland. However, it’s important that people know this “limitation” in using SteamOS, especially since many other Linux distributions run both steam and Nvidia video cards just right.
SteamOS is a distribution that is great for a gaming device but I see people believing this is going to be a generalist Linux distribution and it’s not. Having a clear idea of what SteamOS is, what is good for and what are the current limitations is very important. Linux is amazing, Valve is amazing but SteamOS is not replacing Windows. Which is fine, that’s not the goal. I can recommend a bunch of distros that do replace windows if you want…