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      • Diurnambule@jlai.luEnglish
        42·
        23 days ago

        Yeah and they unleashed some not and trolls to critic Linux gale experience, saying that Xbox give more performance and play more games. Comparing Xbox to steamdeck but melt down and go for personnal insult pr deforming ypur words when you tell them to compare a Xbox with a linux PC with same specs than xbox

        • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          21 days ago

          It’s not really fair to talk about SteamOS 2 and compare it to 3. The original concept tried console gaming and failed, because it was banking on devs porting games to native Linux. With Proton, things are a very different beast.

          Windows is unlikely to be unthroned from gaming king, but Linux has grown quarter over quarter and Valve very clearly is expanding into multiple partners with Lenovo’s new SteamOS handheld.

          Having a competitor in this space will hopefully get Microsoft to stop being complacent.

  • cecilkorik@piefed.caEnglish
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    24 days ago

    I think it’s a great OS and it’s absolutely amazing how far Linux Gaming has come even in the last few years. Personally, I have to say I’m not a huge fan of Bazzite’s immutability-based design. I know there are pros and cons, and they just don’t balance for me. I’m a tinkerer, I like to play with the OS internals and have full control of them. Sometimes that causes problems, but it also causes learning, and I like to learn how the OS works and what it’s doing “under the hood” and in my mind Linux is great for that and that’s part of the appeal. For a lot of people, an immutable OS is probably the right way to go, it’s much safer, and stabler, and I know most people don’t care. But I do think it’s worth considering that Linux is not one-size-fits-all and while Bazzite might be best for some people it’s not best for everyone.

    As soon as you start getting into more customization, if you find annoyances you want to fix, sometimes it’s much easier when you’re on a traditional, non-immutable distro, and I consider it an important bonus that this will help you learn. You do have to be more careful, and more respectful about running shell commands freely that might destroy your system, but I think that’s good experience to have.

    Personally I run PikaOS (debian-based) with KDE Plasma 6 and it’s been an absolute pleasure. I have found some of the above mentioned annoyances, but I’ve fixed them to my satisfaction and I’m extremely happy with the result. I have yet to find any game that is difficult to get running, I have yet to find anything that is difficult at all really. It’s been straightforward and rock solid stable. I give a lot of credit to not just the distros but also to projects like KDE, Wine, Proton, Lutris, etc. which are building this incredible gaming ecosystem on Linux. It couldn’t be a better time to dump Windows, and soon we’ll be at the point where no one will mourn it.

    • EonNShadow@pawb.socialEnglish
      5·
      23 days ago

      I’m a new Bazzite (nvidia) user, but I use Linux in various flavors for self-hosting already so I’m not a complete newbie.

      I’m personally ok with the immutability of the os on my desktop, I’d rather be more free to break things in my homelab environment than lose an OS install on my desktop because I flew too close to the sun.

      I 100% understand the appeal though.

    • dbtng@eviltoast.orgEnglish
      4·
      23 days ago

      Ok. I’m not trying it. I mess with everything.

      In a similar theme, I don’t like the latest TrueNAS because if you want to mess with the OS, you gotta force it. Annoying as hell. I built my own nas instead.

    • dil@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      24 days ago

      I prefer cachyos, also cachyos lets me use gparted and like a whole de gui for install off the usb, it was comfortable and easier than windows, bazzite was still a terminal. Felt less “scary” swapping over.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    23 days ago

    I moved from win10 to PikaOS, after misunderstanding why linux mint installed on a USB was unusably slow. It’s fine, but some weird problems. I think Mint can get closed source Nvidia drivers easily enough. The open drivers are fine enough.

    is Bazite better than Pika? is fedora base better than Debian/Arch base?

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      23 days ago

      is fedora base better than Debian/Arch base?

      unfortunately yes. driver support for any redhat derived Linux is amazing compared to Debian or Arch.

      I stopped using redhat anything after IBM fucked everything up, but it’s still true today.

      Debian could be amazing if it weren’t for the devout “it’s not free, it’s not for me” evangelicals. I mean, I get it, but there is a cost they just don’t concern themselves with and the distro suffers because of it.

      • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        23 days ago

        Pika OS has easy access to open and closed nvidia drivers. Though I bailed on mint, I did notice the drivers were 1 click away.

        While the base of debina/arch might be pure, the distros that build on them do so to get porno filthy. apt+flatpack seems to work ok as update/install system.

        • cecilkorik@piefed.caEnglish
          3·
          22 days ago

          I absolutely love that you describe PikaOS as porno filthy. No judgement, no defense, no argument, I just think it’s a hilarious description while perfectly making your point, and is pretty much the best thing I’ve read today. Thank you!

          And just to stay on-topic, yeah I’ve found flatpak invaluable in working around some of debian’s unfortunate packaging limitations. I try to use the debian packages first if possible, but if the version is too old, not available, or has crappy dependency conflicts, flatpak to the rescue!

      • traceur301@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        4·
        22 days ago

        I would argue that that particular insistence of theirs is precisely why they’re still relevant today and seemingly immune to the enshittification and churn that plagues the rest of the ecosystem

        • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          22 days ago

          I don’t disagree, but at the same time it’s a choice the community has taken that completely walls off a large population of potential users.

          as someone else said though, there are other distros based on Debian that attempt to rectify that.

  • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    23 days ago

    I’m hijacking this thread to ask a question:

    Bazzite latest MESA how?

    I can see that the driver released on the 18th is available on Fedora Rawhide, but it may contain the fix I need that removes graphical artefacting in Unreal Engine 5 games like Oblivion Remastered, Avowed, and Dune Awakening (checking the MESA developer forums shows that they’ve identified the problem. Checking their git shows they’ve found a fix to the problem, hence why I’m expecting the fix to be in the version release of the 18th).