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Pretty exciting times ahead as Valve might finally release SteamOS to more hardware. This amount of Linux desktop coverage would be unimaginable few years ago.

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[–] Presi300@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I feel like that's good for the wrong reasons.

I hope GN complains about how certain things that should have been fixed years ago are still broken because of bike shedding.

It is a weird decision to me though, because as much as I like Linux, the Linux desktop isn't at all a stable platform. Your experience can be vastly different depending on what distro, mesa version, display server, driver, etc you use. So in a way, I wonder if they'll bother to show "the best case scenario" or just go with what's most popular.

Hot take: If they are doing it, they should use what's most popular and if it's bad, sh!t on it, as that seems to be the only way to get long standing issues fixed...(look at pop!os and KDE as an example)

[–] Sconrad122@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, Steve said they were looking into it specifically if SteamOS comes to the desktop market. So that is the benchmark they would use, and they use consistent sets of test hardware across their product category benchmarks. It's not a secret what their methodology is/would look like. And they have a reputation for calling out shit when they see it. No offense, but your hot take seems pretty ice cold to me

[–] IceFoxX@lemm.ee 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Show me a stable windows desktop.(The same applies to Windows.)

[–] hellofriend@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, Windows is undeniably more stable than certain linux configurations. Nothing will ever be 100% stable, but if you compare Windows to basically any rolling release distro, Windows is gonna be more stable. That's just the nature of the two things.

[–] IceFoxX@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

You say it's because of configs etc., i.e. problems caused by the user. That is a serious difference. You should also narrow it down to SteamOS, Garuda, Bazzite, CachyOS or one of the other distributions designed for gaming. After all, these are also experiencing the most growth in gaming from people leaving Windows behind.

Windows and stable? So blue screens during OS installation are stable? Windows didn't catch on because it was stable. It stole the most important thing and then the dirty gag contracts where Intel and Nvidia were also involved. That's the only reason why this trickery has prevailed. Windows is and always has been rubbish, but MS knew how to damage competitors and secure a monopoly position. Windows and stable are a joke.

Every OS was programmed by humans and contains errors. This does not apply to just one OS or the other. In addition, faulty software also runs on faulty hardware. From this point of view, stable is no longer possible with today's CPUs, even if you counteract this via microcode.

[–] hellofriend@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Literally read past the word "configurations" and you'll see that I'm talking about how a distro is configured by its maintainers AKA the meta level, not fucking dotfiles. Grow a brain.

[–] IceFoxX@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago

That's why I mentioned certain distributions afterwards. But thinking doesn't seem to be one of your strengths. If you are going to compare then only with distributions that focus on gaming. Everything else is completely idiotic with the huge variety of distributions available. Of course it's easy to choose a completely different one and then make mimimi... but you don't try to install current games in ms-dos, for example... that would be just as much of an inane comparison.

[–] Reshirams_Rad_Slam@mastodo.neoliber.al -3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Presi300@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The @IceFoxX and @presi300 situation is insane