SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC 'because right now, it's very, very tuned for Steam Deck'
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"Oh, man, it's very high on our list."
  • Telorand@reddthat.com
    13·
    1 year ago

    Honestly, what would you get out of SteamOS on PC anyway? Just install Linux, set up the drivers you need, launch Steam at startup, and default it to Big Picture Mode.

    Boom, SteamOS.

      • Gabagoolzoo@kbin.social
        71·
        1 year ago

        Installing games is same as Windows, download and launch via Steam. As for lack of FPS, willing to bet you had an Nvidia card but didn’t install the drivers for it.

          • Gabagoolzoo@kbin.social
            81·
            1 year ago

            You click the game on Steam, click “install”. That’s the same on Windows or Linux, the client doesn’t change.

            Going from 144fps to 2fps sounds like a graphics driver issue to me, what was the problem then?

              • Gabagoolzoo@kbin.social
                111·
                1 year ago

                Incorrect again.

                uh… ok. It really is that simple, I play games everyday on Linux and that is exactly how I’ve installed 100s of games, so I’m really not getting it… Are you talking about enabling Steam Play in the Steam settings or something?

                I don’t know. The “that’s the story of the time I tried to play games on Linux” indicates that I, and most every other user, doesn’t care enough to spend all day burrowing through search engines and support threads to figure out how to just make the thing work.

                I don’t know why you are telling me this, I’m not the King of Linux or anything. Just thought I might help you with your problem, I don’t know what I did for you to unload all this on me lol

                  • Gabagoolzoo@kbin.social
                    3·
                    1 year ago

                    Ah, I wasn’t the original person you replied to sorry. If it isn’t Nobara or Bazzite, chances are most distros will require tweaking to get gaming to an acceptable level.

              • woelkchen@lemmy.world
                1·
                1 year ago

                Incorrect again. If you try to do that on a non-Linux game, Steam just acts like it’s incompatible and the install button is greyed out without any indication of anything to do with Proton or how to make it work.

                Then you disabled Steam Play.

          • woelkchen@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            So it sounds a lot like you’ve never actually done this before because that’s factually incorrect.

            As a long time openSUSE user I know for a fact that you’re wrong.

      • woelkchen@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Had to go searching around online for how to even install a damn game.

        Wait, you had so much trouble to look if the “Enable Steam Play” checkbox was ticked? 🙄

          • woelkchen@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            Yet another person missing the point 🤦

            Nah, we all get the point. You claim that Steam does not come with Proton on regular Linux distributions but you’re wrong which is an easily googlable fact you continue to deny. If your installation of Steam is somehow broken, that’s specific to you. At most the “Enable Steam Play” checkbox has to be ticked in Steam’s settings.

      • woelkchen@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        I dunno but I tried that and it didn’t work at all. Had to go searching around online for how to even install a damn game.

        Just for shits and giggles I fired up a VM and did a clean Steam installation from Flathub. This is the default:

        Steam Play (=Proton) is on for supported Windows games. For unsupported games it’s off.