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[–] EMPig@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And still no SteamOS3 for Desktop. Oh, Gabe, you fat liar...

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure why you would want a locked down OS on your desktop that overwrites your changes and uninstalls custom drivers every time it updates.

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Not OP but I'd like a "just works" experience if that's the deal with SteamOS 3.

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

Just install Nobara, with Steam.

[–] lickmysword@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wouldn't that just be bare bones Linux with steam included? Not sure if steamos actually has tweaks over other Linux distro for gaming.

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Would be cool for a "console box".

There's a few forks of SteamOS that do the job at least.

[–] gamey@feddit.rocks 0 points 1 year ago

Well SteamOS is Arch based but running a LTS kernel with backported changes in a ummutable way with everything sandboxed in Flatpak so it's quite unique but idk why anyone would want to run it on their desktop, if the immutable aspect is so interesting ro you you can try Fedora Silverblue, Vanilla OS and co. but none of those is in a state that I would recommend as "just works" for a desktop experience, if that's the majore goal Debian or Fedora with Gnome are probably your best options.