I’m not an Ubuntu doomer like most of the internet (I don’t hate snap like everyone else), but I did recently switch to OpenSUSE on my gaming laptop and I’m loving it. I switched because I wanted a rolling release distro so I didn’t need to worry about waiting for new features. I also wanted to switch to KDE Plasma after using it on my Steam Deck and loving it, but I could have done that while staying on Ubuntu. It was just another excuse for me to try something new.

That said, I will likely never move my server off of Ubuntu. I am totally fine with my packages being old and not getting new features right away because my server must be functioning all the time. Even updating to new LTS releases makes me nervous.

Anyway, if you’re happy with Ubuntu, don’t let anyone bully you off of it. It’s really not bad. It’s stable. That’s its best feature. Unless there’s something specific you want from another distro, stick with what you like.

Okay, so there were 3 posts for three separate updates on two separate repos with similar names and version numbers? Is that right?

Okay, thanks for the explanation. I guess my last question is what’s the difference between this and this? They were both posted today, but with different version numbers and the name looks the same to me.

Okay. That makes sense. So what is Wine-GE-Proton, which is what it says in this post.

So then why was that post made today of it was released 3 weeks ago?

Can someone please explain to me the wine versions and such? They always get posted here, but they’re very confusing. Like what’s the difference between this one another one that got posted around the same time with a lower version number?

https://lemmy.world/post/6818625

Edit: and now there’s a third one. What’s the difference between all of these?

https://lemmy.world/post/6851863

Yeah… I was feeling the same way.

I bought a steam deck primarily to have a PC hooked up to my TV. My main use case is watching live pirated sports streams. I tried a Raspberry Pi, and it just didn’t have enough power. It kept getting micro stutters, which made it unwatchable. I figured having a decent integrated GPU would help immensely with video decode.

And then when I got the steam deck, I installed emulators and got a bunch of roms, and now I play classic games with my wife.

And then I learned about moonlight. My gaming PC is in another room, but now I could play any game on the TV in the living room with moonlight.

So those are my three main use cases. I brought my Steam Deck on my last three trips but didn’t even open it the case. I guess I’m just not really into gaming on the go.

I’ll do some reading up on that. I haven’t heard of that before.

I need to install the driver from an open source project that I cloned from GitHub. Does that have any impact on if I can do what you are recommending?

Here are the instructions I follow

I already have a Steam Deck, but what excites me about the prospect of a new valve set-top console is a Steam Deck-like controller.

I’m definitely in the market for a new controller to use with my Steam Deck, as I almost always have it docked. But nothing seems like it has everything I want in a controller. I kinda just want a Steam Deck without the screen. I don’t want to use Bluetooth because I get poor performance in my house, probably due to wireless interference, and because it won’t wake the Steam Deck from sleep. I currently use an Xbox controller with the wireless receiver, but I hate needing to reinstall the drivers after every software update.

Note: Linux, bootcamp, or running the game in a virtual OS is not supported

Wat? Unless something has changed since the last time I used it, Bootcamp is native Windows.

I guess if everything just worked, that would be fine, but as of now they don’t have drivers for wireless Xbox controllers, so you are stuck installing them manually after each software update. Plenty of software just plain isn’t available via flatpak, so you have to reinstall it every software update as well, since anything you do via package manager gets deleted each time it updates.

I just don’t think they can predict everything that someone might want to do, which is why additional software exists.

Not sure why you would want a locked down OS on your desktop that overwrites your changes and uninstalls custom drivers every time it updates.

I’m not sure what preparing I would need that would require more than like a week. I’m already extremely comfortable with Linux. I used it on my work laptop for years before moving to a company that requires Windows.

Imo the only thing better about windows is its support for gaming. But Linux has been getting better and better about that.

I’d bet that Linux will be almost completely caught up when support ends for Windows 10 in two years. That’s probably when I will make the switch for my gaming PC.