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SaltSong@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I’ve got a gaming laptop from a few years back. Republic of gamers, or some such nonsense.

Been thinking of switching to some brand of Linux. Seems like this might be a good way to try it out.

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woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Be mindful of Nvidia drivers, should that notebook come with a GeForce GPU. SteamOS does not support Nvidia. Use Bazzite in such a case.

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- SaltSong@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Appreciate the heads up. I’m pretty sure it’s an AMD processor, but I don’t know about the video card.
  
  Is Bazzite an OS that I would use, or is it a set of drivers that lets SteamOS play nice with Nvidia?
  
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  - woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    Is Bazzite an OS that I would use, or is it a set of drivers that lets SteamOS play nice with Nvidia?
    
    You cannot install Nvidia drivers on SteamOS without jumping through more hoops than it’s worth because the system partition is write protected. You can unprotect it but the next SteamOS update everything will be reset.
    
    All improvements from SteamOS eventually trickle down to all mainstream desktop Linux distributions anyway, just as all Red Hat improvements trickle down to SteamOS.
    
    Bazzite happens to be a gaming-focused distribution but you can also just get Fedora KDE and have a good time as well. I happen to like the download assistant at bazzite.gg/#image-picker which more distribution should adopt.
    
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    kadup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    If you’re assuming the user will have trouble with SteamOS’ write protection, which I totally agree with, Bazzite is also surely going to cause headaches. The idea of a locked down system that gets most apps as Flatpaks sounds appealing, until the cracks start to show up.
    
    I strongly suggest going with your other proposal, something like plain Fedora with KDE.
    
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- sonalder@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Bazzite still has experimental support for NVidia GPUs, you should use Nobara HTPC Nvidia ISO
  
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  - woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    Bazzite still has experimental support for NVidia GPUs, you should use Nobara HTPC Nvidia ISO
    
    None of the Nvidia issues are because of Bazzite. They are all because of NVidia’s drivers and those are the same everywhere. Nothing Nobara or anyone else but Nvidia can do. See docs.bazzite.gg/…/quirks/#nvidia-exclusive-issues
    
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