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Valve launches the Steam Next Fest right on Windows 10 EOL because they hate me, specifically (also, distro-picking). (lemmy.ml)

submitted 22 hours ago by cm0002@lemdro.id to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Fitik@fedia.io 4 points 20 hours ago

I'm a fedora user, so I would recommend Bazzite/Nobara, but all of these are good (Except Windows 7, it's not officially supported anymore and I'm pretty sure it doesn't even get security updates). I think you can try them before installing thanks to live USB, so you can just see which one you like more.