Like, why Valve? I was so close to clearing out all the games I was partway through, now I need to add some demos to my backlog (not many, this Next Fest is kinda weak).

Probably could’ve made it but I haven’t picked a distro. I’m planning on turning my desktop into a dedicated gaming computer and not daily driver, because of the malware risk. I wanted something not finicky, something devs would test on as a known quantity, and preferably something Arch-based like SteamOS.

  • Garuda (Arch-based)
  • Bazzite (Known quantity, immutable, Fedora-based, I don’t trust it for some reason)
  • Nobara (Proton-adjacent distro, Fedora-based)
  • CachyOS (Super fast, Arch-based, presumably finicky?)
  • Windows 7 (Based, unsupported by steam, insecure)
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      6 hours ago

      It is inherently more unstable than the others due to it being rolling release, but it hasn’t had very many hiccups in the last couple of years, so if something breaks, it is likely to be fixable by just waiting for a patch.

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        I’ve had almost no problems in Arch so far. I can’t say the same for Ubuntu, though my problem with Ubuntu was often having to wait for ages to get things to be updated.

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          1 hour ago

          I’ve been in a similar boat, but I had one system breaking issue when I started, I sorted it by chrooting, but anyone with average to low tech expertise would have no other option other than reinstalling

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            My only issue is that I use OBS, and the best OBS package is one in AUR and it causes some headaches when ffmpeg updates, still not nearly as bad as some of the dependency hells I’ve ended up in back in my Ubuntu and Debian days lol