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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.~~
Not really. You can compare which packages are available and at which version. You can see design philosophies in the default settings. You can see which installer you like most, what default applications are selected. You can test native snapshotting/backup and restore and see which works most intuitively.
Honestly there are a ton of out of the box things that can differ and can make your life easier (or not) especially when you're coming from Windows and aren't familiar with customizing a Linux distribution to your liking.