Bazzite, Kubuntu, or Fedora are all great options for you. Bazzite can boot into a SteamOS-like dedicated gaming mode. If you want more flexibility over your system, Kubuntu or Fedora are both great choices.
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atlien51@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Release for pc!!! I want to replace windooze with this
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 months ago
Tbh I don’t agree at all that kubuntu is easier for beginners, that may have been the case 5 or so years ago, but bazzite and aurora are the best now, also there’s literally no reason to use fedora over bazzite or aurora since they’re literally the same thing except with some added packages and important fixes (especially the ffmpeg fix that makes twitch work)
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I like Fedora simply because you don’t have to take extra steps to remove Snaps. I’ve gone from being fan of Ubuntu to avoiding it because of the way Canonical has behaved in recent years and the negative impacts that behavior has had on the distro (and community). It feels immoral preferring a Red Hat/IBM distro over Ubuntu, but unfortunately it’s the better product.
I recommend Kubuntu to new users simply because the documentation, website, and learning material is better. Bazzite is also not without it’s quirks, especially if you want to start learning more about Linux in general and branching out beyond gaming.
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 months ago
I specialize in giving new users linux and documentation has not been an issue at all with bazzite, I just let them know to use rpm-ostree as little as possible ( and that it replaces the normal fedora package manager ) and only when necessary and search for atomic fedora for guides.
so far I have run into zero documentation issues that weren’t just general linux ones. I think your claim might have been true a while ago but no longer is.
ngwoo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I hear a lot of people recommending Mint for a first timer, would you generally disagree since it doesn’t use KDE?
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 months ago
Tbh I copy and pasted a lot from a previous post I made about mint
GaMEChld@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How is HDR support? One of the only reasons I updated to Win 11 was Auto HDR features.
Decq@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why wait for steam os? Bazzite and others already do everything steam os does and probably better and more.
omarfw@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I agree but steam OS is going to be a hell of a lot more popular and have more support as a result.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just don’t tell people is Linux, they’ll switch for steam and get out of windows’ grasp
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Sure, but it’s not available yet. Someone interested in Steam OS would probably be happy with Bazzite today.
CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Steam constantly updates their ID. I agree with you.
Decq@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Will it though? I love what Valve has done for the linux community. But didn’t they abandon Steam OS 2 too? Why will it be better this time? I feel like they would only give official support for handhelds/systems that are officially released with it.
omarfw@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s normal for old versions of an OS to stop receiving support after a new version replaces it. That’s not unique to steam OS. if I install an old version of bazzite, or any deprecated Linux kernel, modern apps will not necessarily be made backwards compatible with it.
But steam OS will have more installs than any other Linux variant just because of Valve’s brand recognition alone and the FOSS community will target it as their primary platform for software compatibility as a result.
CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Other Linux distro can’t compete with valve. Valve constantly updates their OS and drivers. There is no way other distro can compete.
I have a steam deck. Valve releases updates almost once a month.
ArclightMat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Other distros have been competing forever. SteamOS is built on top of Arch, which updates multiple times per day. Valve pushes a lot of updates tied to the Steam experience, some of them are also shared with normal Linux desktops, so that makes it somewhat of a moot argument. I run normal Linux (Fedora Workstation) and play games with Steam, and they run the same as my Deck, even day 1 releases.
Like, I get the appeal of a Valve-blessed Linux flavor, but as far as their stack goes, the Linux side of SteamOS is somewhat conservative (not many updates) and limited (due to read-only OS images) compared to normal Linux distros and the gaming side also gets pushed to all Linux distros. As a Steam Deck owner, I personally think Bazzite is more interesting for a real world gaming desktop usage than SteamOS, where you can’t even print documents because it lacks the required stack!
To show how conservative it is, I call recall a few examples:
- The desktop side, which runs the KDE Plasma desktop, was stuck on version 5.27 for ages and just got recently updated to 6.2. Meanwhile, Arch and Fedora/Bazzite are rocking Plasma 6.3 and should receive Plasma 6.4 in a month or so, pretty much day one.
- The Linux kernel (although patched and tweaked) in SteamOS was still on 6.5 until a few days ago. It was bumped to 6.11 with SteamOS 3.7. Meanwhile, Arch and Fedora have been on 6.14 for weeks now, with new hardware support, performance fixes for existing hardware and some new features.
CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lots of people like don’t know much about Linux. We just want it simple and easy . SteamOS is mainly for Steam users who game only.
I know some people use their SD like a PC. I have a handsome why people>don’t just built one. SD is so underpowered and not optimeised for regular users.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Arch releases updates every day. Idk about Bazzite’s cadence, but I’m guessing it’s at least weekly, if not daily.
PanArab@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Unless you specifically want Steam OS’s gaming mode, any Linux distro (Arch definitely) with KDE Plasma 6 will give you more or less the same experience. Not that I don’t think Valve should do so.
atlien51@lemm.ee 2 months ago
With the same game comparability as steamos? Idk much about this stuff…
Decq@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bazzite is basically just Steam OS but support for more hardware. And easier to extend. You could drop it on your steam deck and if you don’t muck around in the terminal you probably wouldn’t know.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yes.
If you want the same UX, check out Bazzite, it’s designed to replace SteamOS directly.
PanArab@lemm.ee 2 months ago
afaik yes, you just have to install Steam and Enable Steam Play. There’s also Lutris which includes support for Steam and other stores.
_spiffy@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Pretty much. If it works for the steam deck it should work for the desktop. There are some exceptions for some brand new games. But if you want to wait a week or two for new releases usually it’s fine.
Luffy879@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
They all work with wine. Only for you I will spin up an image of AmongOS and Hannah Montana Linux with a flatpak of Lutris and play cyberpunk on there
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
So at best kernel 2.2.xx good luck with the hardware support. Flatpack is not a solution for everything.