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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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[–] Xenny@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Made the switch a few days ago. A couple growing pains but I'm playing beat saber with mods again. Which is all I was doing on windows lately anyway lol.

[–] Dangerhart@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah apparently the current fix is to just get an AMD card or a wireless headset. I'm trying to get a steam vr alternative running which is non trivial on bazzite, but it just "avoids" the bugs in the nvidia wired drivers