PC The Steam Machine lives!!

[tselinoyarsk]

Whatever happens with the Steam Machine, I just hope that SteamOS becomes officially available for desktop computers, outside the focus of the Steam ecosystem. Windows 11 is becoming more intrusive and a nuisance as the days go by.

 

[Leon]

Whatever happens with the Steam Machine, I just hope that SteamOS becomes officially available for desktop computers, outside the focus of the Steam ecosystem. Windows 11 is becoming more intrusive and a nuisance as the days go by.

As much as i have problems with the distro, bazzite is basically a unofficial steam os, for what it's worth/

 

[pinetreeneedle56]

As much as i have problems with the distro, bazzite is basically a unofficial steam os, for what it's worth/

What are your gripes with Bazzite?

 

[Leon]

What are your gripes with Bazzite?

I tend to have a problem with any software that has anything to do directly with political topics no matter which side of the political isle it's on or even if i agree with it's position (i have a perspective that open source software should stay out of politics in any form, as open source should be open to everyone, from freedom fighters to authoritarian tyrants, open source exists to be used by all imo, this doesn't mean specific devs can't have them, but it should NOT be in the software itself imo), bazzite has a trans teen as it's mascot, which is a political statement and thus i tend to avoid them, though it's getting harder and harder to be apolitical since so much of software these days have politics, one of the reasons i've considered bsd in the past is it completely avoids politics directly as far as i know.

From what i know of bazzite when i did use it, it is great as a entry point for gamers and is a good alternative to linux mint even if not a game, especially if you want a fedora based distro, i just personally avoid politics in software as much as possible, this is also why i avoid gnome even though gnome is imo, far more stable than kde plasma, though the gnome team is on a whole different level with their politics.
Currently i'm on garuda linux, which is another gaming distro though a bit more resource hungry and advanced as well as being based on arch, my preferred update schedule, but more importantly, it's completely neutral politically as far as i know.

A distro i dislike on the other side of the political spectrum is ubuntu, which from my understanding is politically on the other side of the isle to bazzite, though even if it wasn't i'd avoid ubuntu due tue privacy and control issues(snap package forcing).

 

[tselinoyarsk]

As much as i have problems with the distro, bazzite is basically a unofficial steam os, for what it's worth/

I've been using Linux Mint Debian Edition, not so much for gaming outside of emulators. I just desire more games that are native to Linux and more Proton support, it's the only thing keeping me from switching to Linux as my primary OS.

Thankfully that could happen faster if Steam Machines are a success and are in most peoples homes, though I'm not interested in purchasing a Steam Machine myself.