Comment on SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck

• Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  if you need specific drivers that arent in a generic kernel you’re already out of everyday user territory even on a normal distro.

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  • kadup@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Its OK for them to step out of everyday user territory no one is saying they can’t. Its just that installing drivers on Linux is not common.

      The nvidia driver is the only thing I can think that an average user would need to install and that is shipped pre installed in most distros.

      Also I’m not confused Linux isn’t growing fast enough. I’m surprised limux is growing as fast as it is. Linux is growing at an insane rate.

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  • A_Porcupine@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not sure that the NIC on one of the most popular Asus motherboards is really outside of everyday user territory. In my case, it’s a realtek onboard ethernet chip.

    On a “normal” distro the drivers for this are pretty easy to install, and is definitely something an everyday user could achieve (double click a single file in the download from realtek).

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• whostosay@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s why we got dem tar and dnf

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  • kadup@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • whostosay@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, on bazzite because it’s a fedora distro

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      • whostosay@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        @kadup

        So I think I was partially wrong about this one. I just threw my head against the wall for a good hour because I couldn’t get a package installed through dnf.

        I don’t know what all this applies to, but I think it may be most things, using rpm-ostree in place of dnf and my install finally worked.

        Leaving this here in case someone stumbles up on this while trying to install packages

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