The desktop environment is called KDE Plasma. Every distribution with KDE will look and feel very similar.
Fedora is a good and safe bet for a distribution.
Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?
Apeman42@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Can anyone recommend a distro (and desktop environment?) that’s going to be almost the same as desktop mode on the Steam deck? I’m getting more comfortable in that than I expected to be in any Linux, and to my surprise and delight I haven’t had to delve into the command line at all yet.
pathief@lemmy.world 1 week ago
offspec@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The steam deck uses KDE Plasma 5 as its desktop environment, so anything that uses that should feel very similar. I recommend bazzite if familiarity is something that would appeal to you.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The most recent update ships Plasma 6 I believe.
Link@rentadrunk.org 1 week ago
That update is still is preview curently. The stable branch is still on Plasma 5
daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Oh my bad.
Mogofwin@lemm.ee 1 week ago
+1 for Bazzite. It has just enough guard rails to keep you from (easily) making your system unusable while still providing more freedom than windows. Install is cake. Literally clear a drive or partition for your OS and storage, download it, and you’re off to the races. just make sure to always check your build against protondb For games to see if there are any special run commands to put into steam, and you will be golden.
offspec@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah I can’t say I’ve used it myself but it seems pretty straightforward and very in line with SteamOS philosophies.
Mogofwin@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Very much so. Even for non-gaming, most stuff works out of the box from the package manager, everything else you can get working with a distrobox. Ended up getting blender to work better on Bazzite with AMD GPU rendering than I could on Windows lol
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Would I fuck myself over by putting it on a partition on the same drive as my Windows install? It’s my fastest hard drive, but I can’t just immediately give up everything I have on Windows.
Mogofwin@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I hav heard that there can be issues with windows updates messing up Bazzite if installed on the same drive. I got a separate drive just for my Bazzite install to be on the safe side.