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Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoIt sounds like Bazzite is the most “plug and play” version at the moment, is that right?
For most things, I’d agree.
Yet, I found it tricky to get Optifine working on Minecraft (Vanilla, i.e. no Forge and such) since there seems to be no way to install JRE on the system. Had to work with a distrobox container, install JRE there and run the .jar file through it. I’ve managed, but beginners won’t find this very “plug and play”.
So YMMV.
Honestly, I don’t know which distro is not plug and play with steam nowadays. I’ve tried Garuda, Manjaro and Linux Mint so far, no notable issue.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I’ve heard lovely things about Bazzite with Steam.
However I have only run Steam on Ubuntu and Linux Mint, where it ran flawlessly.
I think the Linux Mint workflow of “click on software center”, “search for steam”, “click install” - is hard to beat.
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Well, Bazzite has it pre-installed, but that’s the experience for other stuff lol.
I don’t recommend mint for newbies because it comes with X11 even still.
rarbg@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Bazzite has closed source software preinstalled? Yikes
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Probably more like it automatically installs is when you install the system but yeah.
This isn’t Debian. It has a live image that comes with Nvidia drivers so you can have these from the start too.
IratePirate@feddit.org 1 month ago
I get the sentiment. That said, if you want to do “gaming”, there’s no way around proprietary software for the time being, since both titles and some drivers are and will continue to be proprietary.
Regardless, running some FOSS is already better than none. So if Bazzite helps wean people off proprietary Windows, why not?