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)
PopOS is a distro famous for it’s Nvidia support. I’m on AMD so that’s not a concern for me. Also System76 develops PopOS and they’re squarely American so I’m hesitant to partake with them.
EDIT: Though it installs with full disk encryption by default, and I appreciate that even if I would probably disable it on what will be my dedicated gaming desktop.
I’m running bazzite on my new 5080 build. I’ve only tested one game so far. Pop OS seems like a good distro too.
PopOS is a distro famous for it’s Nvidia support. I’m on AMD so that’s not a concern for me. Also System76 develops PopOS and they’re squarely American so I’m hesitant to partake with them.
EDIT: Though it installs with full disk encryption by default, and I appreciate that even if I would probably disable it on what will be my dedicated gaming desktop.