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Firstly: I feel seen.
Secondly: it's working, SteamOS is so nice. I haven't been this interested in Linux since the XP to 7 transfer. And I think imma' actually do it this time.
It's almost like an OS that wants to be useful is a better experience than an OS that wants to push you ads and steal everything you produce to feed into llm slop-generation.
This is a lie! Nobody should read his comment, instead they should check out Raid Shadow Legends the epic, turn-based RPG that's taken the mobile gaming world by storm!
I haven't actually seen a raid ad in years at this point. (Except your hopefully ironic comment, so good job unironically promoting them)
I don't know if it's just my sponsorblock + adblock combo or if their gorilla advertising has fallen off, and at this point I'm too afraid to ask
*guerilla
It comes from the Spanish word for "little war" and has nothing to do with apes.
Not yet anyway π
Calm down, Caesar.
Meh, there's pretty easy (and legit) ways around the bullshit that makes managing it take less time than I had to spend making my Mint install work properly.
I'm in the same boat. I am really not interested in Windows 11 at all, especially after using it at work. My primary hesitation has been video game playability in the past but the steam deck has really expanded how many games are playable on Linux and I also play a lot more games on consoles than I did a few years ago
I was you. I installed Mint and the only issue I had was with a hard drive that was being shared by both systems (dual booting) that had all my games on it. It was a symlink issue.
Bite the bullet. The startup time alone is worth it.
I'm probably going to do a trial run of Bazzite on my secondary computer to see how much does and doesn't work and make my decision based on that
A good UI/UX is what Linux needs most to get people to switch. Valve has the money to pour into actually making something people want to use. Now I just hope the desktop release gets the same polish.
KDE is good already
Or are you talking about "gaming mode"?
Linux has plenty of good UIs⦠KDE, Budgie, XFCE, Cinnamon, GNOME, etc. Literally no shortage of desktop environments.
It needs a decent UX, but most importantly it needs binary compatibility. No pleb will compile from source.
That too, but I don't expect that to be a problem after it's been out for more than a few weeks.
Currently it's based off of Arch right? Are there many compatibility issues with its current form?