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I'm thinking about switching to SteamOS since it's built for gaming. Most of my games run fine on Linux Mint, but not all of them. I also heard Valve say "it's just a PC", does that mean it's suitable for software development too?

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

I installed game scope on my Fedora install.

FSR crashes sometimes, so I disabled that. The only real issue OSS that if you use game scope the steam big picture exit menu gets replaced with the steam deck options only, so I had to create a separate “game” to send a kill signal to gamescope.