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SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck (store.steampowered.com)

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[-] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'll be honest. It was a hell of a time getting things working correctly due to the lack of documentation, but now I have everything except scanning and document signing working which I rarely use anyway. (Rocket league runs fine, just with half the fps I should be getting) I literally don't have to touch anything anymore, it will just keep itself updated and working completely hands-off. That is what I want out of a system now that tweaking and debugging is a distraction from my other hobbies rather than a hobby itself.

The biggest feature that I like is Linux without having any manual update intervention at all. It all just runs and updates itself and works.

If something goes wrong in my software, I can uninstall and reinstall the flatpak delete remaining files, and reinstall with 3 clicks instead of having to search for where the hell this specific program decided to stash its files and configs and cache on my system like I had to with a traditional system. It takes the recurring annoyances out and trades them with 1-time annoyances.

[-] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

That makes sense. Is there anything specific to bazzite you like or do you think you could get pretty much the same experience on any immutable distro?

[-] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I have tried openSUSE Kalpa for a few months and that would literally only boot 50-60% of the time due to not being able to mount volumes for some random unlogged reason, also RPM-ostree is better than the suse tool for it (from a layman's perspective) and saving 10 or so system snapshots doesn't make sense for my usecase because I would only notice something wrong from a bad update immediately or 4 months down the road lol.

Steam being natively installed is a big one too because flatpak steam is simply riddled with bugs and problems. I couldn't even launch any game at all until I found a command buried not in opensuse's documentation but another. I think I ran into 4-5 major issues before they were all found out via the web. Definitely not an experience most people would want.

Otherwise it is about the same except openSUSE had a high rate of updates silently failing with 2 RPM packages installed where bazzite has never failed.