Pretty exciting times ahead as Valve might finally release SteamOS to more hardware. This amount of Linux desktop coverage would be unimaginable few years ago.

  • PetulantBandicoot@aussie.zoneEnglish
    104·
    18 hours ago

    SteamOS is going to have to do a lot of heavy lifting. I reckon there are quite a few people who are waiting for its release before trying Linux.

    Does SteamOS even have functional desktop, or is it just Steam big picture wrapper thing?

    • EddyBot@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      4 minutes ago

      I reckon there are quite a few people who are waiting for its release before trying Linux.

      I always recommend against it people wanting a gaming linux desktop
      SteamOS being an immutable operating system works a bit different to most well known operating systems
      albeit this also makes any breackage almost impossible

    • Giloron@programming.dev
      71·
      17 hours ago

      Yes, but it is also set up as an OS image.

      I think there is a process for persistence, but without some effort, changes are lost for OS updates.

      • skimm@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        9·
        16 hours ago

        Changes aren’t lost on update. If you enable a sudo user/password, and make changes to the system that way, those changes can be lost when applying the new system image.

        Its an immutable Arch-based distro and you have full readwrite to your home directory and all config, settings, and files within persist.