There's a good reason to be excited this time!
  • Serge Matveenko@lemmings.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Who could’ve thought that the thing Linux was worst for (gaming) would finally conquer Windows…

    Upd: why down votes? Am I wrong? My first Desktop Linux was Ubuntu 6.04 in 2006. Back then I could only dream of what we’re witnessing nowadays.

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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      3 days ago

      Good question. Maybe:

      1. Windows fanbois upset at the suggestion that Windows is starting to lose the game
      2. People in general objecting to the idea that single-digit install numbers is “conquering.”
      3. Greybeards upset at a trivial misuse of compute power (games) is evidently more influential than truly worthy uses, like interpreting ctrl-alt-shift-n and running some Lisp to indent some text.
      4. You’ve made powerful enemies…

      I’m just guessing. I have no idea; I upvoted your comment.

    • infeeeee@lemm.ee
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      3 days ago

      It’s mostly just ArchLinux with preinstalled steam, booting into “big picture” ui. You can do the same thing as with any linux distro. Nearly all non competitive games from steam should work ootb.

      The important part is a lot of people don’t really care about operating systems, a big part of home usage of windows comes from being preinstalled on a lot of laptops. People just switch on their new computer and use it, if the preinstalled os is good enough they don’t search for replacement. This is consumer device from a well known manufacturer. Before this other similar devices had to use windows, as Valve didn’t have installers for steam os, didn’t supported third party devices.

      As the usage of linux grows with this, more (game) developers would choose to also develop for linux or at least make sure their programs run fine with wine.

        • infeeeee@lemm.ee
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          3 days ago

          You can’t install steamos, as it’s not availble as an iso with an installer. Holo iso is an unoffiial installer for steamos

          Installing arch nowadays is not complex at all, there is the command archinstall, so it’s just a meme now. If you are somewhat familiar with computers and linux, and don’t call someone a “haxor” just for using a terminal, it won’t be a big deal.

        • dustyData@lemmy.world
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          3 days ago

          Knowledge can’t hurt, but probably not. Valve seems to be aiming at a OEM experience out of the box, and we don’t know what the installer for desktop would look like. But it would certainly be some kind of install wizard. Arch based distros use stuff like Calamares.

        • Telorand@reddthat.com
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          3 days ago

          Probably not. SteamOS likely won’t have any particular benefit on desktops over other distros.

          Just download an Arch-based distro, like CachyOS or EndeavorOS, install the Steam app through pacman -S or whatever helper app they have for new users, install Proton Plus, and play your games. If you want to get into the weeds of immutable Arch, give blendOS a try.

          I recommend, trying all of these in a VM first, btw. You can even practice doing a pure Arch install from scratch that way.

          Anyway, SteamOS is almost certainly just a preconfigured Arch + KDE that has Steam and Proton already installed, with downstream patches for specific hardware they’ve deemed worth their time to patch (which will eventually make their way upstream).