Comment on SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck

• argarath@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think that the big thing for the general public is not that Linux will now be easy to use/accessible, it currently is pretty much there with many different distros, it’s that there’s a known face behind it. In the general public Linux is just this weird thing that isn’t really attached to anything besides the super tech savvy, so they think they can’t use it because they aren’t super tech savvy. By making it steam’s Linux, they can go “oh I know steam, they do stuff really well for people like me! This is probably easy enough that I can use!”

  Another thing that will help is a centralization of support. With enough people using it questions and bugs will be more common and more accessible as well as answered. Currently for you to find help for your issue you need to look for your specific distro and try to also parse if the answers for other distros would help you with your issue.

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• Old_Yharnam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There are plenty of distros that have been doing that for years now

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  • Tankton@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Except not really and about half the time there are breaking bugs that the average person cannot simply fix. Shit gets serious when a company like valve spends a load of programmers on this and gets it up to standard.

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    • pathief@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If you are tech savvy enough to install Windows, you can easily install Linux as well. If you install any of the big distros you will have a good time.

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    • Old_Yharnam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You’re either doing too much or using the wrong distros. Haven’t had breaking bugs for a long while using Fedora KDE.

      It’s been nothing but as reliable as windows. Windows can have severe bugs too BTW

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• pathief@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s not going to happen in this iteration of SteamOS. It remains mostly a gaming “only” distribution.

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