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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)
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[–] Attacker94@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Have you been having issues with the flatpak, I don't use obs all too often, but I don't have any complaints

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Attacker94@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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.