• Railcar8095@lemm.ee
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    8 days ago

    Love Linux and steam deck, but AS IS, steam os is a horrible choice for a desktop general use computer.

    It’s immutable without layering, so there are things that you can’t install/keep after an update. Case and point, printers. You can’t print, period. Valve knows, they don’t need a gaming device to print so they don’t care.

    Hopefully they will do something about this, but I don’t hold my breath for 2025

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      8 days ago

      They wont do anything about it because SteamOS is not and will never be a general purpose desktop OS. Its a gaming distro designed to do one thing and one thing well, game. It can do other things but its not meant to, kinda like a reverse MacOS.

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        8 days ago

        Currently, you’re right. But it’s a bad move, I think, moving forward for valve.

        They have already confirmed they want steamOS to be a distro everybody can install on any computer. Being more limited than most distros is going to make it a hard choice to pick. On the deck, it’s fine tuned to that hardware. What is going to offer that Bazzite won’t replicate a few months afterwards, while offering a better general OS experience?

        I think that just having layers and a recovery partition that can restore the system while preserving steam games (even if removing all configs) would increase the appeal a lot.

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      8 days ago

      You might like Bazzite. Its like a general purpose version of SteamOS with layering and printers

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        8 days ago

        My desktop is Bazzite and my htpc is Aurora (the non gaming version of Bazzite), so I have to agree with you haha