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Like, why Valve? I was so close to clearing out all the games I was partway through, now I need to add some demos to my backlog (not many, this Next Fest is kinda weak).
Probably could've made it but I haven't picked a distro. I'm planning on turning my desktop into a dedicated gaming computer and not daily driver, because of the malware risk. I wanted something not finicky, something devs would test on as a known quantity, and preferably something Arch-based like SteamOS.
- Garuda (Arch-based)
- Bazzite (Known quantity, immutable, Fedora-based, I don't trust it for some reason)
- Nobara (Proton-adjacent distro, Fedora-based)
- CachyOS (Super fast, Arch-based, presumably finicky?)
- Windows 7 (Based, unsupported by steam, insecure)
Arch is finicky?
It is inherently more unstable than the others due to it being rolling release, but it hasn't had very many hiccups in the last couple of years, so if something breaks, it is likely to be fixable by just waiting for a patch.
I've had almost no problems in Arch so far. I can't say the same for Ubuntu, though my problem with Ubuntu was often having to wait for ages to get things to be updated.
I've been in a similar boat, but I had one system breaking issue when I started, I sorted it by chrooting, but anyone with average to low tech expertise would have no other option other than reinstalling
My only issue is that I use OBS, and the best OBS package is one in AUR and it causes some headaches when ffmpeg updates, still not nearly as bad as some of the dependency hells I've ended up in back in my Ubuntu and Debian days lol
Have you been having issues with the flatpak, I don't use obs all too often, but I don't have any complaints
I can double check it. I tend to avoid flatpaks and appimages at all cost if I can.
Does the flatpak have browser sources and custom docks, because none of the other packages I could find did.
I'm not all too sure, I just know there was a lot of comparability issues with fedora packages in comparison to the flatpak, I just assumed that the flatpak is the most well maintained.