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Valve launches the Steam Next Fest right on Windows 10 EOL because they hate me, specifically.
(lemmy.ml)
Like, why Valve? I was so close to clearing out all the games I was partway through, now I need to add some demos to my backlog (not many, this Next Fest is kinda weak).
~~Probably could've made it but I haven't picked a distro. I'm planning on turning my desktop into a dedicated gaming computer and not daily driver, because of the malware risk. I wanted something not finicky, something devs would test on as a known quantity, and preferably something Arch-based like SteamOS.~~
- ~~Garuda (Arch-based)~~
- ~~Bazzite (Known quantity, immutable, Fedora-based, I don't trust it for some reason)~~
- ~~Nobara (Proton-adjacent distro, Fedora-based)~~
- ~~CachyOS (Super fast, Arch-based, presumably finicky?)~~
- ~~Windows 7 (Based, unsupported by steam, insecure)~~
~~BTW I have an AMD CPU and GPU. Figured I should've mentioned that.~~
I've been using Bazzite for months.
If it's a gaming PC, you want the OS to be stable and reliable. Bazzite is that.
Not saying your other choices aren't, just that there's no reason to be afraid of Bazzite.
I vaguely remember being distrustful of something about it. Either Universal Blue has something in their ethos that I disagreed with or I just generally don't trust Fedora because of their dependence on Red Hat.
I can't really remember.
But I'm probably gonna end up on Bazzite.
It's an excellent first choice if you are a bit of a noob on Linux and are primarily or even moderately interested in gaming. I tried many Linux distros in the past, but bazzite was the one where I finally settled into Linux long term. I've been on Linux for nearly 4 years now and I'm finally getting my first Linux phone. There are many other great OSes of course but they often don't include the proprietary drivers needed to get good gaming performance on Nvidia, and they don't come with the whole environment set up for gaming out of the box.
Other cool options are, Alpine, for a really tiny Linux system with a light c lib, Debian for a really simple Linux system, cachey which can give you a few percentage points more performance which could be useful in certain contexts like heavy data processing or gaming on a potato, Ubuntu if you like their stuff which is meant to be a bit more user friendly. Mint is supposed to be more familiar to windows users, but I like bazzite with KDE. I have such a hard time setting Linux up to do what I want, like play games. I love valve in general, they are a single good company in an ocean of shit. Linux in general has a real issue with people making shell apps but not going the extra mile to make a user interface, and bazzite just skips most of this for you to be sort of a windows XP of Linux. My brain just does not work that way. I'm partially deaf so to me the whole world is visual not logical. Shell tools work better for people who are more blind and dream in language and stuff. Language is a bit unintuitive to me, but spatial things are very natural to me. I really suck with shells and setting up environments, but I'm good at modeling and even writing really clever code in a mathematical and geometric sense, just not understanding shell stuff. I always recommend bazzite as a first distro because it mostly just works out of the box without needing to go full hackerman on it for 72 hours only to break it because you don't understand Linux yet.
I've been using Kubuntu on my laptop for a while now, and I'm changing my AMD desktop to Linux. So a lot of this doesn't apply. I think I'll go with CachyOS because the performance boost on my ... not quite a potato but not avocado either, is not worth passing up all else being equal.