Desktop Linux distros similar to Steam OS?
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A couple years ago from allegorithmic. But a Linux version was never around
Wine/Proton's magic
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Wine/Proton's magic
Nope. Native Linux. And wine/proton didn't work very well before
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Nope. Native Linux. And wine/proton didn't work very well before
Oh woaw that is... interesting
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I agree, really anything with KDE Plasma will feel basically the same because the Steam Deck's desktop is basically stock kde.
really anything with KDE Plasma
Op might like the stability broihght by immutability
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Cinnamon supports fractional scaling, mixed dpi, pretty sure it handles mixed refresh rates, and wayland support was added in mint 21.3 as experimental. I feel like you havent touched mint in 5+ years.
This is not actually true, mint supports x.org hacks for those things, not natively and properly, for example, the way mixed refresh rates work is like this: lets say you have a 60fps and 120fps monitor, both will actually run at 120, but half will be culled on the 60, meaning much worse performance and battery life... this becomes exceptionally bad if they are not clean multiples, say a 144hz and 60.
fractional scaling works in a similarly hacky way, it renders at 2x and then downscales, as does mixed dpi, meaning you're paying the full rendering cost.
they kinda work, but these are terribly hacky workarounds that are impossible to avoid due to the fundamental nature of x.org. This is not something they can fix without wayland support, which will take forever to mature into usability because their dev speed is so slow.
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The problem with using Bazzite as the solution to new users bricking their Linux installs is I've had Bazzite's update utility break itself 3 times now. I couldn't possibly recommend this distro to someone after that. I literally switched my desktop back to Arch for reliability reasons. Ridiculous.
There are stories like this for every distro, unfortunately.
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Ah, so Adobe?? Say Adobe and I'm there.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Not Adobe. Only extremely old, no longer for sale versions of Adobe products can run on Linux.
There are better--- by which I mean worse but free--- alternatives that you should replace them with if you want to abandon Windows.
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I like the em dash and am very upset that AI has stolen it.
It hasn't stolen anything, lol. You can and should still use it — it's at code point 2014, just where it always was.
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There are stories like this for every distro, unfortunately.
Yeah but in Bazzite's case one of those issues (the one from about a year ago) hit over 99% of their users. I really think that all these people talking about how great Bazzite is either haven't been using it for long enough for the devs to have fucked up or they just haven't noticed that their system hasn't been updating for the past year.
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It hasn't stolen anything, lol. You can and should still use it — it's at code point 2014, just where it always was.
I already have some issues with my public tone sounding... Too official. Using the em-dash just makes it seem like I might be a bot. I'm not going to bother with that.
