Debian or Linux Mint, if you want a no-nonsense, just works kind of experience.

Why?

Yeah it’s basically Arch with KDE Neon/gamescope that runs Steam in Big Picture mode with an immutable file system. That’s why Bazzite is able to make a StramOS-like experience. The hardest things are the hardware-specific tweaks.

I was specifically referring to games as a subset of software in general. Generally, I haven’t run into a game that doesn’t “just work” on Linux unless the developer has non-working anti cheat. Are there any major games you’ve tried that that wasn’t the case?

As for all software, we still have work to do there.

SteamOS is purpose built for gaming. Windows LTSC is specifically not for gaming, but many shoehorn it into it.

Arch is a stripped down version of Arch.

Linux isn’t monolithic like Windows, so it can be purpose built for anything.

Windows LTSC is designed for things like kiosks, ATMs, etc that have a long service life. It’s not made for gaming. It doesn’t even include things like DirectX by default, IIRC. You have to add it.

Pretty much everything will run on Linux now. It’s just the companies behind the games being dumbasses and blocking it with their anti-cheat.

A performance uplift plus double or tripled battery life compared to running on Windows…hot damn that’s impressive.

Get rekt Windows.

IMHO you shouldn’t have to run a stripped down Windows to get good results. It should just work that way out of the box. LTSC is not supposed to be a consumer OS.

It is. OP is just using an old-ass card from many years ago.

dnf is the replacement to yum. It is apparently short for “Dandified Yum”.

Wasn’t yum just mapped to dnf a while back?

Linux gives processes a chance to gracefully close. However, it also will absolutely NOT allow a process to hang up the shutdown or restart procedure after a point. If you’re using systemd (which there is a good chance you are), it’ll count down. If the process hasn’t stopped in the time allotted, it gets Old Yellered.

Oddly, Windows can natively handle .tar.gz now. Found that out the other day.

Back in my day we coded in assembly and we liked it that way!

Why Bazzite for a non-gaming setup? Or are your parents gamers?

I’m assuming you meant 512GB, as 500MB wouldn’t even hold the OS.

Also, you can get a replacement battery from iFixIt for $89.

It looks like it’s going to be a staging ground for things to be merged into Weston proper, along with potentially some newer and better features coming to it exclusively or first.

As long as it’s open source, sounds like a win to me. More AMD embracing Linux as a first party OS is good in my book.

Valve is such a rare breed of company. I hope Gabe hands it off to someone who believes equally in the same things he does.