Bazzite: The Gaming OS Microsoft Doesn't Want You To Know About
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Pika OS has easy access to open and closed nvidia drivers. Though I bailed on mint, I did notice the drivers were 1 click away.
While the base of debina/arch might be pure, the distros that build on them do so to get porno filthy. apt+flatpack seems to work ok as update/install system.
I absolutely love that you describe PikaOS as porno filthy. No judgement, no defense, no argument, I just think it's a hilarious description while perfectly making your point, and is pretty much the best thing I've read today. Thank you!
And just to stay on-topic, yeah I've found flatpak invaluable in working around some of debian's unfortunate packaging limitations. I try to use the debian packages first if possible, but if the version is too old, not available, or has crappy dependency conflicts, flatpak to the rescue!
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I don't remember using a text interface to install Bazzite
this was a few months ago and it launched in a terminal with the options
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I don't remember using a text interface to install Bazzite
Mightve been one of the other de options for bazzite
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Just a heads up, if you play a lot of Japanese games. I have had incredible trouble playing pretty much any Japanese game that isn't potato-esq since switching to Linux. I figured I'd get that out there. I gave up on playing them, which stinks because there are some very interesting games out there to play. If I can emulate, I do. But anything from Steam would just crash, within 10-20 minutes of playing them.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I need to check what its called on my computer but lutris didnt work for me for some pirated games, some other launcher off github I found off a comment on reddit did, might work for that
might be portwine https://github.com/Castro-Fidel/PortWINE pretty sure
wasnt portwine was fauguslauncher
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is fedora base better than Debian/Arch base?
unfortunately yes. driver support for any redhat derived Linux is amazing compared to Debian or Arch.
I stopped using redhat anything after IBM fucked everything up, but it's still true today.
Debian could be amazing if it weren't for the devout "it's not free, it's not for me" evangelicals. I mean, I get it, but there is a cost they just don't concern themselves with and the distro suffers because of it.
I would argue that that particular insistence of theirs is precisely why they're still relevant today and seemingly immune to the enshittification and churn that plagues the rest of the ecosystem
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I would argue that that particular insistence of theirs is precisely why they're still relevant today and seemingly immune to the enshittification and churn that plagues the rest of the ecosystem
I don't disagree, but at the same time it's a choice the community has taken that completely walls off a large population of potential users.
as someone else said though, there are other distros based on Debian that attempt to rectify that.
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SteamOS scares the shit out of them, though, given that they're creating a "competitor".
wrote on last edited by [email protected]SteamOS does not scare the shit out of them at all. Microsoft's money is in dominating the business world. They like being in the video game world but it's only a portion of their portfolio whereas Valve is all in. Plus SteamOS didn't hurt them last time, why would they believe it will this time? Maybe it will, but unfortunately smart money is not betting against microsoft on this. Valve will continue to nibble at the edges and expand linux gaming, which is awesome, but look what it's taken to get to just under 5% of the gaming market (that's ALL of linux btw, not SteamOS).
Until Valve offers commercial offerings (never) I think M$ isn't losing sleep. They aren't even on the same plane in terms of scale and resources. They're competing for handheld pc gaming, but it's not high stakes for microsoft at all.
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SteamOS does not scare the shit out of them at all. Microsoft's money is in dominating the business world. They like being in the video game world but it's only a portion of their portfolio whereas Valve is all in. Plus SteamOS didn't hurt them last time, why would they believe it will this time? Maybe it will, but unfortunately smart money is not betting against microsoft on this. Valve will continue to nibble at the edges and expand linux gaming, which is awesome, but look what it's taken to get to just under 5% of the gaming market (that's ALL of linux btw, not SteamOS).
Until Valve offers commercial offerings (never) I think M$ isn't losing sleep. They aren't even on the same plane in terms of scale and resources. They're competing for handheld pc gaming, but it's not high stakes for microsoft at all.
It's not really fair to talk about SteamOS 2 and compare it to 3. The original concept tried console gaming and failed, because it was banking on devs porting games to native Linux. With Proton, things are a very different beast.
Windows is unlikely to be unthroned from gaming king, but Linux has grown quarter over quarter and Valve very clearly is expanding into multiple partners with Lenovo's new SteamOS handheld.
Having a competitor in this space will hopefully get Microsoft to stop being complacent.
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I need to check what its called on my computer but lutris didnt work for me for some pirated games, some other launcher off github I found off a comment on reddit did, might work for that
might be portwine https://github.com/Castro-Fidel/PortWINE pretty sure
wasnt portwine was fauguslauncher
its faugus launcher btw
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It's not really fair to talk about SteamOS 2 and compare it to 3. The original concept tried console gaming and failed, because it was banking on devs porting games to native Linux. With Proton, things are a very different beast.
Windows is unlikely to be unthroned from gaming king, but Linux has grown quarter over quarter and Valve very clearly is expanding into multiple partners with Lenovo's new SteamOS handheld.
Having a competitor in this space will hopefully get Microsoft to stop being complacent.
Honestly at this point Microsoft has a much bigger problem with people abandoning PC/laptops for smart phones and tablets, a space that they do not occupy at all. Steam/Valve is not the major problem
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Honestly at this point Microsoft has a much bigger problem with people abandoning PC/laptops for smart phones and tablets, a space that they do not occupy at all. Steam/Valve is not the major problem
There are a lot of things encroaching on Microsoft these days. Death by a thousand cuts.