PC-hris t1_j7rhorz wrote
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Ikr I’m so excited to try Steam OS on my main pc.
NexusOrBust t1_j7sw831 wrote
I don't love the direction things are going with Windows 11, so I'm more than willing to beta test a SteamOS desktop release.
roguebananah t1_j7tplrs wrote
I’m on 10 and I know at some point I’ll need to move to 11 and I have zero interest in it.
More bloat, more privacy violations, more bullshit Microsoft changed that never needed to be changed in the first place. Start menu, control panel is gonna be fucked and all.
Search I’m sure will still suck
OPsButthole6969 t1_j7tvp97 wrote
Have you tried the Everything app for PC that makes search way better?
roguebananah t1_j7u7ecg wrote
I have not! What is it? Hopefully like MacOS’s search?
OPsButthole6969 t1_j7uf33y wrote
Pretty much makes search instant and perfect. It will index the entire PC and when you search it's instant and looks for everything!
roguebananah t1_j7v3p7a wrote
I’ll check it out. Thank you!
killiandw t1_j7xai8o wrote
Come to Linux I just made the switch. Using PopOS
roguebananah t1_j7xo6sr wrote
I’ve used Linux before (Mainly Ubuntu and Mint back about 10 years ago) and thought about it again but being a new Dad I just don’t have time to play around with getting configuration set up and all. Maybe again one day.
I’ll say a massive help to my gripes with Windows 10’s nonsense was a Powershell script that uninstalled a ton of bloat and allows you to uninstall stuff like Candy Crush and the Xbox app.
Wild how much trash it threw out
killiandw t1_j7z8yfy wrote
Oh no you removed candy crush. In my opinion the only games that should come with windows is solitaire , minesweeper, and that ski game from windows 3.1.
I totally get it I have a 2 year old. But I have to say the guys at system 76 made it out of the box ready and steam makes it so easy.
roguebananah t1_j7zokfz wrote
Any non-DLC or upselling type of game I have no issue with.
put_it_in_my_mouf t1_j7tvhew wrote
On the bright side they finally updated big picture to look like steamOS so that's nice
AcusTwinhammer t1_j7v3fv7 wrote
If by "bright side" you include breaking a lot of existing SteamLink functionality, sure. Got the new update yesterday, looks like it no longer understands having controllers/keyboards plugged into both the main computer and the SteamLink, so I wasn't able to properly use any inputs. Thought I would restart the SteamLink via the power option, apparently in the new Big Picture that powers down my actual PC. Not sure what the "Format SD card" option does, or even why it's there other than perhaps a lazy cut and paste of the UI.
put_it_in_my_mouf t1_j80qc4b wrote
Tbf it's not all that surprising an update broke a device that's been EOL for three years
TONKAHANAH t1_j7t19wo wrote
you can do it now with HoloISO, assuming you have an AMD card.
it would be nice to see valve put some effort into getting a system agnostic iso out into the world that they're supporting, or at least pay someone to work on it. I've not heard of them putting any sort of priority into getting a standard system ISO outinto the wild.
only thing that exists right now is HoloISO which is basically just the steamdeck recovery image cobbled together with other standard linux stuffs to make it work. It used to work with nvidia but according to the HoloISO page, its been updated with stuff that makes it just not work with nvidia at all.
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the other issue currently is that kde via SteamOS isnt set to use wayland for some reason. that probably wouldnt be an issue in most cases, but it does feel like we're ready to move on from X11 and I'd prefer to see wayland be the default on an offical steamOS iso
PC-hris t1_j7t25jf wrote
I’ve tried using HoloISO but it didn’t really work out. I only have Nvidia graphics cards
TONKAHANAH t1_j7t3gzb wrote
yeah as it stands a lot of SteamOS relies on having AMD graphical chipsets to work properly which makes me think a standard ISO isnt gonna happen any time soon.
PC-hris t1_j7vupz4 wrote
They did say they plan to make a general use version of the os. Hopefully they do it soon
TONKAHANAH t1_j7w9eee wrote
Yeah but that was a long time ago and they've not made a single mention of it since.
I was expecting them to do this before updating big picture mode cuz that didn't seem like a high priority yet here we are.
Suppose maintaining a whole os for various hardware is more complicated though. Would be nice to hear if they've put any work into it.
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