Given many new handhelds coming on the scene and general disinterest of Microsoft to support the market, do you think SteamOS will take place of default OS the same way Android did on phones some time ago?
Given many new handhelds coming on the scene and general disinterest of Microsoft to support the market, do you think SteamOS will take place of default OS the same way Android did on phones some time ago?
Yeah, I’ve gotten Nvidia drivers working, but always with issues in performance or things like Wayland not working and I eventually decide “that was fun to play around with, back to Windows”. Specifically the whole immutable OS thing for me is nice too. Linux is my OS of choice for development work, but it’s so easy to screw things up when trying to make games work nicely and my ideal “it just works” gaming machine can ignore the OS entirely (looking at you, Windows random forced reboots or virus scans), so having big single updates rather than individual packages and no risk of trying to get WINE etc up and running breaking something with the OS is nice. Not to mention, it’s much harder for a small child to brick it than a normal Linux distro or even Windows for that matter. Fedora Kinonite is on my radar for a future distro because of this, I just haven’t decided if I prefer the Fedora ecosystem over Ubuntu or Manjaro.
Fwiw, you can disable those Windows forced reboots in the group policy editor of Windows, at least in the Pro version. I don’t even let mine give me the update notifications any more - I just see the option to install when I go to manually shutdown or reboot.
Edit: granted, Windows updates sometimes unexpectedly make problems anyway, albeit much less often for me than Linux ones.