• OnfireNFS@lemmy.world
    9·
    22 hours ago

    I’ve seen a lot of comments online of people saying they’ll leave Windows 10 once SteamOS has general availability. I fear that’ll lead them to having a bad experience with Linux because they’ll be expecting a desktop OS but instead receive an OS that turns their computer into a console. There’s a couple features Bazzite has (like printer drivers) which you might want on something replacing Windows 10 but you probably don’t care about if you have a handheld or a steam machine

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      13 hours ago

      SteamOS (the deck) does have printer support now.

      Valve does seem to be putting affort into making sure the desktop mode is a complete experience.

      • imecth@fedia.io
        2·
        10 hours ago

        Doesn’t it boot straight into steam big picture? That alone should be a deterrent to most people wanting to run it as a desktop OS.

          • imecth@fedia.io
            2·
            5 hours ago

            It’s arch KDE under the hood, as long as a terminal is accessible and you have root privileges you could probably run an airplane on it if you’d like. The relevant point is the default setting, the thing that nobody changes and why google’s paying apple 18 billion per year.